Cheesehead.tar (2025)

Conducted in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin.

The campaign was designed to solve long-standing puzzles in meteorology, specifically how the atmosphere's boundary layer responds to (patchiness) in surface heat and water exchanges. In simpler terms, it studied how different types of terrain (forests, lakes, wetlands) in Wisconsin affect the energy and water balance in the air above them. Key Components of the "Detailed Paper" Cheesehead.tar

Over 20 towers measuring carbon, water, and heat flux. Key Components of the "Detailed Paper" Over 20

While many individual studies have come out of this campaign, the foundational "detailed paper" typically refers to the (often cited as Butterworth et al. or similar overview papers in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) or Frontiers in Earth Science ). it usually signifies a large

Flight-level measurements to capture regional scale variations.

The suffix .tar refers to the standard Tape Archive file format. In this context, it usually signifies a large, bundled dataset containing observations from: