MPD Deployments and data
EOL has five MPD units available. The first prototype was deployed under its original name Water Vapor DIAL (WV-DIAL) until 2017. It was renamed to MPD 1 in 2018.
MPD data can be previewed on the EOL Field Catalog.
| Project | Full name | Date | Location | Instruments | Data |
| NY-ECLIPSE-2024 | MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidars (MPD) for studying the atmospheric impacts of the total solar eclipse in 2024 | 2024-04-01 to 2024-04-30 | New York State, US | MPD 2, 3, 4 | Lidar |
| M2HATS | Multi-point Monin-Obukhov similarity horizontal array turbulence study | 2023-07-20 to 2023-09-26 |
Nevada, US |
MPD 2, 3 MPD 3 |
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| PRECIP | Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign in the Pacific | 2022-05-25 to 2022-08-11 | Taiwan | MPD 2-4 | Lidar |
| Pre-CIP_2021 | Preparatory Rockies Experiment for the Campaign In the Pacific 2021 | 2021-06-17 to 2021-08-20 | Colorado, US | MPD 2,3,5 | Lidar |
| MPD-NetDemo | Micro-Pulse DIAL (MPD) Network Demonstration | 2019-04-16 to 2019-07-22 | US Great Plains | MPD 1-5 | Lidar |
| RELAMPAGO | Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations | 2018-10-25 to 2018-12-15 | Argentina | MPD 1 | Lidar |
| LAFE | Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment | 2017-07-27 to 2017-09-05 | US Great Plains | WV-DIAL | Lidar |
| PERDIGAO | Perdigão Double Hill Experiment | 2017-04-24 to 2017-06-17 | Portugal | WV-DIAL | Lidar |
| PECAN | Plains Elevated Convection at Night | 2015-05-26 to 2015-07-16 | US Great Plains | WV-DIAL | Lidar |
| FRAPPE | Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment | 2014-07-01 to 2014-08-19 | Colorado, US | WV-DIAL | Lidar |