ERC DarkMix : Large Eddy Observatory, Voitsumra Experiment 2019 (LOVE19)

The Large Eddy Observatory, Voitsumra Experiment 2019 (LOVE19) was the first full deployment of the "Large Eddy Observatory" (LEO) concept by DarkMix for observing atmospheric properties on similar scales as Large Eddy Simulations (LES). From this similarity in the resolved scales, the experiment earned the nickname of the Large EddyObservatory.The primary scientific objective of LOVE19 was to understand the role submeso structures play in the weak-wind and stable boundary layer (wwSBL). Turbulence in the wwSBL does not follow assumptions like stationarity and Taylor’s hypothesis. Instead, the occurrence of non-turbulent, submeso structures plays a governing role in the generation of turbulence. One of the key research needs for this problem are observations in which turbulent motions can be separated from the submeso motions on a distributed basis. To this end, LOVE19 featured a large array of Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing(FODS).This document is intended to act as a companion to the Earth System Science Data(ESSD), filling in many of the more nuanced details that are glossed over or omitted inthe peer-reviewed publication. We attempt to avoid repetition between these documents when possible. Unfortunately, since this document needs to be included as part of the published data with a DOI prior to the submission of the ESSD paper, we cannot include a direct reference here. Please see the DOI repository for a reference to the ESSD paper. This Documentation also plays the dual role of being the internal documentation for the DarkMix project as well as the external documentation for the Zenodo repository.