Over 20 towers measuring carbon, water, and heat flux.
High-density instruments for atmospheric profiling.
Conducted in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin. Cheesehead.tar
You can find the most detailed technical descriptions and the full data archives on the CHEESEHEAD Field Project page hosted by NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory. CHEESEHEAD - Earth Observing Laboratory
Flight-level measurements to capture regional scale variations. Over 20 towers measuring carbon, water, and heat flux
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 ).
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" You can find the most detailed technical descriptions
The suffix .tar refers to the standard Tape Archive file format. In this context, it usually signifies a large, bundled dataset containing observations from: