1. LBA-Claire 2001 Manaus experiment – rawinsoundings Gilberto Fisch (CTA) Paulo Artaxo (USP)

2. Manaus

3. Observations - undisturbed tropical forest (Reserva ZF-2 do INPA) - data collected from 2 July until 18 July, 2001 ZF-2

4. Observations - upper air rawinsounding system (Vaisala Oy, Finland ) with sondes RS80-15G - profiles of air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure and winds (GPS capabilities)

5. Balloon with the RS80-15G RS80-15G Radiotransmission 403 MHz Surface reception – Digicora II

6. Statistics

7. preliminary results preliminary results

8. entrainment zone residual layer NBL CBL sunrise noon sunset

9. July 10, 2001 5 PM sounding

10. July 11, 2001 soundings

11. Preliminary results F Well mixed layer developed over forest F height of the CBL around 1000 - 1200 m

12. Rawinsoundings from forest (high resolution time and vertical space) and from Manaus (twice per day) data available upon request to gfisch@iae.cta.br artaxo@if.usp.br meixner@mpch-mainz.mpge.de gfisch@iae.cta.br artaxo@if.usp.br meixner@mpch-mainz.mpge.de gfisch@iae.cta.br artaxo@if.usp.br meixner@mpch-mainz.mpge.de