• DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00255.1
• Corpus ID: 122233171

The Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study

@article{Lareau2013ThePC,
  title={The Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study},
  author={Neil P. Lareau and Erik T. Crosman and Charles D. Whiteman and John D. Horel and Sebastian W. Hoch and William O. J. Brown and Thomas W. Horst},
  journal={Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society},
  year={2013},
  volume={94},
  pages={51-63}
}

• N. Lareau, E. Crosman, +4 authors T. W. Horst
• Published 2013
• Environmental Science
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study (PCAPS) was conducted in Utah's Salt Lake valley from 1 December 2010 to 7 February 2011. The field campaign's primary goal was to improve understanding of the physical processes governing the evolution of multiday cold-air pools (CAPs) that are common in mountain basins during the winter. Meteorological instrumentation deployed throughout the Salt Lake valley provided observations of the processes contributing to the formation, maintenance, and destruction of 10 persistent CAP episodes. The close proximity of PCAPS field sites to residences and the University of Utah campus allowed many undergraduate and graduate students to participate in the study. Ongoing research, supported by the National Science Foundation, is using the PCAPS dataset to examine CAP evolution. Preliminary analyses reveal that variations in CAP thermodynamic structure are attributable to a multitude of physical processes affecting local static stability: for example, synoptic-scale processes impact ...