1. JPL Table Mountain Facility (TMF)
Station Report
Thierry Leblanc
California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Table Mountain Facility, CA

2. Instrumentation NDACC Status Dates TMF Strato. DIAL (O3, Temper, Aer)
TMF Tropo. DIAL (O3)
TMF Raman lidar (H2O)
MLO Strato. DIAL (O3, Temper, Aer)
Nominal (1 laser)
Nominal
1988-present
1999-present
2005-present
1994-present
Non-NDACC
Status
Dates
PTU radiosondes
Ozonesondes
Frost-point sondes
Surface PTU
Surface ozone
Nominal
Rare launches
No launch past 2 years
2006-present
2007-present
2012-present
2013-present
Non-NDACC, non-JPL
Status
Dates
GPS-met total column water
Nominal but data flow interrupted due to management changes
2004-present
NEW: Automation of the tropospheric ozone Lidar
NEW: Data acquisition for the tropospheric ozone lidar
NEW: Chiller system in Building 21 (ozone lidars)

3. Current JPL Lidar Group personnel Young and dynamic team, I love it!
Thierry Leblanc (PI), Research Scientist
Patrick Wang, Technologist
Mark Brewer, Research Assistant
Darryl Koon, half-time Technologist
New Caltech Postdoc: Fernando Chouza
Arrived August 15, Funded by TOLNet
Young and dynamic team, I love it!
New: Table Mountain Facility Manager (Pam Glatfelter retired)

4. Status of Operations TMF Instruments status (as of May 2018):
- Water vapor Raman lidar: Nominal
- Tropospheric ozone DIAL: Nominal higher power restored in fall 2017
- Stratospheric ozone DIAL: Runs on 1 new excimer since August 2016 (30 W)
- PTU radiosonde: New MW41/RS41 fully operational Only ~10 RS92 to launch, then discontinued
- Ozonesonde and FPH: Nominal, on validation basis only
MLO Instrument status (as of May 2018):
- New excimer installed in July 2016
- Runs on 2 excimer (1 new, 1 old), power ok (45-50 W)
May 4th Breaking News for Mauna Loa:
- Large earthquake caused widespread, extended power outage to MLO
- Alignment hardware (GPIB) affected. Issue is being resolved

5. Data Archiving and Funding Status
Number of measurement nights in 2016/2018 (2 years):
MLO Stratospheric O3 DIAL:
TMF Stratospheric O3 DIAL:
TMF Tropospheric O3 DIAL:
TMF Water Vapor Raman:
TMF PTU launches:
TMF Ozonesonde launches:
TMF FPH launches:
338
255
359
355
83 launches 20
Funding status (FY’18 and beyond):
ROSES-2016 proposal ( ) Second year
FY’18 money coming bit-by-bit, enough to operate for about 2 months at a time
NEW Data Processing (O3, T, Aer, H2O) named GLASS:
Currently can process data from 12 lidars
Uncertainty and Vertical Resolution compliant with NDACC-standardized definition
Output format: HDF4 (NDACC/GEOMS) and HDF5

6. New GLASS Data Processing examples
Mauna Loa O3

7. New GLASS Data Processing examples
TMF O3
Lauder O3

8. New GLASS Data Processing examples
Eureka O3
Payerne H2O

9. New GLASS Data Processing examples
AMOLITE, LMOL, and TROPOZ during SCOOP

10. Publications
Publications in past 24 months utilizing JPL Lidar Group data or expertise (non exhaustive list):
De Mazière, et al., The NDACC, ACP., Langford, et al.: Stratospheric intrusions, AE, Granados-Muñoz, et al.: N.A. monsoon, ACP, Huang, et al., 10-year SAO OMI Ozone Profile, AMT, Steinbrecht, W., et, al.: Ozone trends, ACP, Wang, et al., DISCOVER-AQ, AMT, Yates, et al., Tropospheric Ozone, JGR, Bodeker, et al., GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN), BAMS, Granados-Munoz et al., Tropospheric ozone variability and trends, ACP, Hubert et al., Ozone measurements inter-instrument drifts, AMT, Leblanc et al., Standardization of vert. resol. and uncertainty, Part 1, AMT, Leblanc et al., Standardization of vert. resol. and uncertainty, Part 2, AMT, Leblanc et al., Standardization of vert. resol. and uncertainty, Part 3, AMT, 2016

11. THANK YOU Questions? Upcoming activities Publications in preparation:
- SCOOP, MORGANE, Automation
A lot more data processing using GLASS:
- All JPL NDACC products re-processing back to 2006, and eventually back to start!
- GRUAN Lidar data processing for Payerne, Cabauw, Ny-Ålesund
- NDACC Lidar data processing for Eureka, Lauder
- MORGANE Campaign data processing for LIO3S, LIO3T, LI1200, STROZ
- TOLNet data processing? AMOLITE? LMOL? TROPOZ?
- Other lidars interested?
A lot more unexpected high-priority tasks that I hadn’t even thought of…
THANK YOU
Questions?