Intensive field data collection efforts (i.e., field campaigns) can be complex undertakings. Field campaign teams must balance multi-faceted and competing objectives, known and unknown constraints, and must be adaptable to changing conditions. We …
The combination of simultaneous, collocated aircraft in situ measurements and remote sensing data at multiple wavelengths is of tremendous value in physical process studies but is hard to obtain in practice. Appropriate multiaircraft and multisensor …
The NASA ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) airborne field campaigns deployed a 4STAR (Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research) instrument onboard a P-3 aircraft to measure columnar optical …
Biomass burning aerosol (BBA) from agricultural fires in southern Africa contributes about one-third of the global carbonaceous aerosol load. These particles have strong radiative effects in the southeast Atlantic (SEA), which depend in part on the …
The southeastern Atlantic is home to an expansive smoke aerosol plume overlying a large cloud deck for approximately a third of the year. The aerosol plume is mainly attributed to the extensive biomass burning activities that occur in southern …
Aerosol particles can be emitted, transported, removed, or transformed, leading to aerosol variability at scales impacting the climate (days to years and over hundreds of kilometers) or the air quality (hours to days and from meters to hundreds of …
This release presents the science codes used for analysis in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics publications. This is associated with the final publications, linked to the discussion paper: LeBlanc, et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-1012, …
This study develops the use of spectral total and diffuse irradiance measurements, made from a prototype hyperspectral total-diffuse sunshine pyranometer (SPN-S), to retrieve layer fine-mode aerosol ($ au$aer) and total optical depths from airborne …
Aerosol heating due to shortwave absorption has implications for local atmospheric stability and regional dynamics. The derivation of heating rate profiles from space-based observations is challenging because it requires the vertical profile of …
Aerosol particles can be emitted, transported, removed, or transformed, leading to aerosol variability at scales impacting the climate (days to years and over hundreds of kilometers) or the air quality (hours to days and from meters to hundreds of …