10.26208/WQYT-9K25
Markowski, P.
P.
Markowski
Pennsylvania State University
Analyses of vertical wind profile data from the VORTEX-Southeast 2017 field campaign
Penn State Data Commons
2019
This dataset contains observations from the Collaborative Lower Atmospheric Mobile Profiling System (CLAMPS) and NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division) micrometeorological towers that were analyzed in the Markowski et al. (2019) study. That study used CLAMPS Doppler lidar observations of near-surface vertical wind profiles, and NOAA tower observations of near-surface shear and vertical momentum fluxes, both of which were obtained during the spring 2017 Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment–Southeast (VORTEX-Southeast) field project, to document departures from the predictions of Monin–Obukhov similarity theory (MOST). The study focused on MOST departures on thunderstorm days, both in the warm air masses ahead of storms and within the cool outflow of storms, where MOST assumptions (e.g., horizontal homogeneity and a steady state) are least credible. The dataset also includes all code used to perform the analyses and create the figures shown in the above-referenced journal publication. Additional documentation is provided in the README files that are contained in the zip file.