Abstract

During the month of January 1982 the Mobile Polarization Lidar Facility of the University of Utah participated in the Colorado Orographic Seeding Experiment (COSE) in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Gathered for this research program were an impressive array of remote sensing systems, including the ruby lidar, a dual-wavelength passive microwave radiometer, vertically-pointing K_μ- and K_a-band radars and a scanning C-band radar. In addition, research aircraft, radiosonde, and ground-truth precipitation data were also collected. Co-located with the lidar at a mountain-base station (2.1 km MSL) were the microwave radiometer, with channels to detect emissions from both vapor and liquid water, and the 1.8 cm wavelength K_μ-band radar.