MAP 1999

A

Successful

Field Phase

U.S. MAP Project Office

(photo) Innsbruck airport, site of the MAP Operations Center (MOC) with NCAR Electra (left), U.K. C-130 (middle) and NOAA P-3 (right). (Courtesy of Herbert Pümpel)

MAP

Mesoscale Alpine Program

Preliminary Summary Report

on the field phase

by the US MAP Project Office

UCAR/NCAR, Boulder, Colorado

February 2000

Joachim Kuettner        Rebecca Meitín

I. Introduction

II. Background Information

III. Summary of MAP Intensive Observing Periods (IOPs)

IOP 1 (15 September)

IOP 2 (17-20 September)

IOP 3 (24-26 September)

IOP 4 (30 September – 1 October)

IOP 5 (2-4 October)

IOP 6 (13 October)

IOP 7 (17-18 October)

IOP 8 (19-21 October)

IOP 9 (23 October)

IOP 10 (24-25 October)

IOP 11 (27 October)

IOP 12 (29-30 October)

IOP 13 (1-2 November)

IOP 14 (3-4 November)

IOP 15 (5-9 November)

IOP 16 (11-13 November)

IOP 17 (15 November)

IV. Conclusions

V. Acknowledgments

Appendix One: US scientists, operational and technical personnel