Meteorological observations and measurements collected during the Storms and Precipitation Across the continental Divide Experiment (SPADE), April – June 2019

• DOI: 10.20383/101.0221
• Publication Date: 2020-05-11
• Authors: Julie M. Thériault; Stephen J. Déry; John W. Pomeroy; Ronald E. Stewart; Hilary M. Smith; Hadleigh D. Thompson; André Bertoncini; Aurélie Desroches...; Charlie Hébert-Pi...; Selina Mitchell; Jeremy Morris; Juris Almonte; Mathieu Lachapelle; Zen Mariani; Cécile Carton
• Keywords: Orographic lift; Quantitative precipitation estimation

Global Water Future’s Storms and Precipitation Across the continental Divide Experiment (SPADE) was initiated to enhance our knowledge of contribution different moisture flows on precipitation across Canadian Rockies. SPADE installed instrumentation both sides divide gather automated manual observations during an intensive field campaign from 24 April 26 June 2019. Various meteorological instruments were deployed including a two Doppler LiDARs, three vertically pointing micro rain radars optical disdrometers, alongside human observers events. Detailed data such as air temperature, relative humidity, 3D wind fields, vertical profiles radar reflectivity velocity, its type, snow microphotography images collected. This dataset will serve baseline for future work atmospheric conditions over major orographic features by comparing varying either side large topographic feature.