Timelapse footage of deep convective clouds in New Mexico produced during the DCMEX field campaign

<p>Timelapse footage of clouds taken during the<a href="https://cloudsense.ac.uk/dcmex/"> Deep Convective Microphysics Experiment</a> (DCMEX) research project, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.</p> <p>Cameras were pointed towards the Magdalena mountains. The main camera location was Socorro airport, a secondary location was Econolodge, Socorro, and a third location was Magdalena airport.</p> <p>These are a subset of the footage collected. 20s interval photographs from a number of days are available from another archive.</p> <p>During these timelapses the FAAM aircraft was flying through the clouds collecting thermodynamic, dynamics, microphysics and aerosol <a href="https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b1211ad185e24b488d41dd98f957506c">measurements</a>. Radars were also sometimes operational.</p> <p>The full campaign and data is decribed in detail in <a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/2141/2024/">Finney et al. (2024) ESSD</a>.</p> <p><strong>Video descriptions</strong></p> <p>19th July - A number of convective cloud bursts, but no anvil formed over the Magdalena mountains during this footage.</p> <p>23rd July - Cumulus are present and growing from the start of the footage. Cloud bases stay rooted to the mountain. Shear appears low until a detrainment layer is reached.</p> <p>27th July - Footage begins with clear skies. Strong low levels winds carry clouds northward. Deep convective clouds form and are detrained&nbsp;south westward. Later in the footage scene becomes overcast with high cloud, and this suppresses the earlier deep convection. Late in the camera 1 footage a gust front cloud passes across the scene.</p> <p>29th July - Footage taken from the Magdalena airport and begins with fast moving cumulus cloud. The cloud grows and moves over the camera.</p> <p>31st July - Cumulus clouds form almost immediately over the Magdalena mountains and steadily grow from multiple thermals. Cloud bases stay rooted to the mountain, but shear aloft carries cloud northward from a detrainment layer. The cloud takes a structure similar to anvil but winds are strong and cloud in the detrainment layer appears to be fairly long-lived, warping the anvil shape somewhat.</p> <p>2nd August - Footage begins overcast but clears. Cumulus clouds and congestus begin to form, with strong low level winds carrying them southward.</p> <p><strong>Related datasets</strong></p> <p>Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements; Finney, D.; Blyth, A.; Gallagher, M.; Wu, H.; Nott, G.J.; Biggerstaff, M.; Sonnenfeld, R.G.; Daily, M.; Walker, D.; Dufton, D.; Bower, K.N.; Boeing, S.; Choularton, T.W.; Crosier, J.; Groves, J.; Field, P.; Coe, H.; Murray, B.J.; Lloyd, G.; Marsden, N.A.; Flynn, M.; Hu, K.; Thamban, N.M.; Williams, P.I.; Connolly, P.J.; McQuaid, J.B.; Robinson, J.; Cui, Z.; Burton, R.R.; Carrie, G.; Moore, R.; Abel, S.J.; Tiddeman, D.; Aulich, G.; Bennecke, D.; Kelsey, V.; Reger, R.S.; Nowakowska, K.; Bassford, J.; Morris, F.; Hampton, J. (2022): DCMEX: Collection of in-situ airborne observations, ground-based meteorological and aerosol measurements and cloud imagery for the Deep Convective Microphysics Experiment. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis,&nbsp;<em>30 April 2024</em>.&nbsp;<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/B1211AD185E24B488D41DD98F957506C">https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/B1211AD185E24B488D41DD98F957506C</a></p> <p>Individual image archive for camera 1 - Finney, D.; Groves, J.; Walker, D.; Dufton, D.; Moore, R.; Bennecke, D.; Kelsey, V.; Reger, R.S.; Nowakowska, K.; Bassford, J.; Blyth, A. (2023): DCMEX: cloud images from the NCAS Camera 11 from the New Mexico field campaign 2022. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 15 December 2023. <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/b839ae53abf94e23b0f61560349ccda1">https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/b839ae53abf94e23b0f61560349ccda1</a></p> <p>Individual image archive for camera 2 - Finney, D.; Groves, J.; Walker, D.; Dufton, D.; Moore, R.; Bennecke, D.; Kelsey, V.; Reger, R.S.; Nowakowska, K.; Bassford, J.; Blyth, A. (2023): DCMEX: cloud images from the NCAS Camera 12 from the New Mexico field campaign 2022. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 15 December 2023. <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d1c61edc4f554ee09ad370f6b52f82ce">https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d1c61edc4f554ee09ad370f6b52f82ce&nbsp;</a></p> <p>Oklahoma University radar data - <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8051426">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8051426</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>