• Official FIRE-ACE home page

• SHEBA manuscripts home page

• Data summaries for Convair-580 flights

• CARG Publications on FIRE-ACE:

Hobbs, P. V., "University of Washington Flight Scenarios for the Convair-580 in the Arctic (15 May-26 June 1998)." Technical Report for FIRE-ACE/SHEBA Field Project, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 32 pp, 1998. (See pdf file of this report with Acrobat Reader*.)

Hobbs, P. V., "Summary of Flights and Types of Data Collected on the University of Washington's (UW) Convair-580 Aircraft in the FIRE-ACE/SHEBA Project in the Arctic From 19 May Through 24 June 1998." Technical Report for FIRE-ACE/SHEBA Field Project, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 120 pp, 1998. (File formats available are html and pdf*).

Garrett, T. and P. V. Hobbs, "Calibration of Liquid Water Probes From the University of Washington's CV-580 Aircraft at the Canadian NRC Wind Tunnel." Technical Report for FIRE-ACE/SHEBA Field Project, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 18 pp, 1999. (File formats available are Word and pdf*).

Curry, J. A., P. V. Hobbs, M. D. King, D. A. Randall, P. Minnis, G. A. Isaac, J. O. Pinto, T. Uttal, A. Bucholtz, D. G. Cripe, H. Gerber, C. W. Fairall, T. J. Garrett, J. Hudson, J. M. Intrieri, C. Jakob, T. Jensen, P. Lawson, D. Marcotte, L. Nguyen, P. Pilewskie, A. Rangno, D. C. Rogers, K. B. Strawbridge, F. P. J. Valero, A. G. Williams, and D. Wylie, "FIRE Arctic Clouds Experiment." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 5-29, 2000.

Garrett, T. J., P. V. Hobbs, and H. Gerber, "Shortwave, Single-Scattering Properties of Arctic Ice Clouds." J. Geophys. Res., 106, 15,155-15,172, 2001.

Gerber, H., Y. Takano, T. J. Garrett, and P. V. Hobbs, "Nephelometer Measurements of the Asymmetry Parameter, Volume Extinction Coefficient and Backscatter Ratio in Arctic Clouds." J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3021-3034, 2000.

Rangno, A. L., and P. V. Hobbs, "Ice Particles in Stratiform Clouds in the Arctic and Possible Mechanisms for the Production of High Ice Concentrations." J. Geophys. Res., 106, 15,065-15,075, 2001.

Hobbs, P. V., A. L. Rangno, T. Uttal, and M. Shupe, "Airborne Studies of Cloud Structures Over the Arctic Ocean and Comparisons With Retrievals From Ship-Based Remote Sensing Measurements." J. Geophys. Res., 106, 15,029-15,044, 2001.

Platnick, S., J. Y. Li, M. D. King, H. Gerber, and P. V. Hobbs, "A Solar Reflectance Method for Retrieving Cloud Optical Thickness and Droplet Size Over Snow and Ice Surfaces." J. Geophys. Res., 106, 15,185-15,199, 2001.

Garrett, T. J., P. V. Hobbs, and H. Gerber, "Shortwave, single-scattering properties of arctic ice clouds," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Reno, Nevada, August 14-18, 2000.

Gerber, H., Takano, Y., T. J. Garrett, and P. V. Hobbs, "Measurement of the asymmetry parameter of cloud particles," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Reno, Nevada, August 14-18, 2000.

Wendisch, M., T. Garrett, P. V. Hobbs, and J. W. Strapp, "PVM-100A performance tests in the NASA and NRC wind tunnels," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, Reno, Nevada, August 14-18, 2000.

Platnick, S., G. T. Arnold, M. D. King, S.-C. Tsay, H. Gerber, P. V. Hobbs, and A. Rangno, "A technique for cloud retrievals over snow and ice surfaces with examples from FIRE-ACE," Proceedings of the AMS 10th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, Wisconsin, June 28-July 2, 1999.

Perovich, D. K., T. C. Grenfell, B. Light, and P. V. Hobbs, "Seasonal evolution of the albedo of multiyear Arctic Sea ice." J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 10.1029/2000JC000438, 11 October 2002.

• Instrumentation aboard the Convair-580 in FIRE-ACE.

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