The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign

The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment produced an exceptional dataset on thunderstorms, including their dynamical, physical, and electrical structures and their impact on the chemical composition of the troposphere. The field experiment gathered detailed information on the chemical composition of the inflow and outflow regions of midlatitude thunderstorms in northeast Colorado, west Texas to central Oklahoma, and northern Alabama. A unique aspect of the DC3 strategy was to locate and sample the convective outflow a day after active convection in order to measure the chemical transformations within the upper-tropospheric convective plume. These data are being analyzed to investigate transport and dynamics of the storms, scavenging of soluble trace gases and aerosols, production of nitrogen oxides by lightning, relationships between lightning flash rates and storm parameters, chemistry in the upper troposphere that is affected by the convection, and related source characterization of the three sampling regions. DC3 also documented biomass-burning plumes and the interactions of these plumes with deep convection.

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Author Barth, Mary
Cantrell, Christopher
Brune, William
Rutledge, Steven
Crawford, James
Huntrieser, Heidi
Carey, Lawrence
MacGorman, Donald
Weisman, Morris
Pickering, Kenneth
Bruning, Eric
Anderson, Bruce
Apel, Eric
Biggerstaff, Michael
Campos, Teresa
Campuzano-Jost, Pedro
Cohen, Ronald
Crounse, John
Day, Douglas
Diskin, Glenn
Flocke, Frank
Fried, Alan
Garland, Charity
Heikes, Brian
Honomichl, Shawn
Hornbrook, Rebecca
Huey, L.
Jimenez, Jose
Lang, Timothy
Lichtenstern, Michael
Mikoviny, Tomas
Nault, Benjamin
O'Sullivan, Daniel
Pan, Laura
Peischl, Jeff
Pollack, Ilana
Richter, Dirk
Riemer, Daniel
Ryerson, Thomas
Schlager, Hans
St. Clair, Jason
Walega, James
Weibring, Petter
Weinheimer, Andrew
Wennberg, Paul
Wisthaler, Armin
Wooldridge, Paul
Ziegler, Conrad
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Publication Date 2015-08-01T00:00:00
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Suggested Citation Barth, Mary, Cantrell, Christopher, Brune, William, Rutledge, Steven, Crawford, James, Huntrieser, Heidi, Carey, Lawrence, MacGorman, Donald, Weisman, Morris, Pickering, Kenneth, Bruning, Eric, Anderson, Bruce, Apel, Eric, Biggerstaff, Michael, Campos, Teresa, Campuzano-Jost, Pedro, Cohen, Ronald, Crounse, John, Day, Douglas, Diskin, Glenn, Flocke, Frank, Fried, Alan, Garland, Charity, Heikes, Brian, Honomichl, Shawn, Hornbrook, Rebecca, Huey, L., Jimenez, Jose, Lang, Timothy, Lichtenstern, Michael, Mikoviny, Tomas, Nault, Benjamin, O'Sullivan, Daniel, Pan, Laura, Peischl, Jeff, Pollack, Ilana, Richter, Dirk, Riemer, Daniel, Ryerson, Thomas, Schlager, Hans, St. Clair, Jason, Walega, James, Weibring, Petter, Weinheimer, Andrew, Wennberg, Paul, Wisthaler, Armin, Wooldridge, Paul, Ziegler, Conrad. (2015). The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7gf0w0q. Accessed 31 January 2025.

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