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Campaign datasets for Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GOAMAZON)

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.5439/1346559· OSTI ID:1346559
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The hydrologic cycle of the Amazon Basin is one of the primary heat engines of the Southern Hemisphere. Any accurate climate model must succeed in a good description of the Basin, both in its natural state and in states perturbed by regional and global human activities. At the present time, however, tropical deep convection in a natural state is poorly understood and modeled, with insufficient observational data sets for model constraint. Furthermore, future climate scenarios resulting from human activities globally show the possible drying and the eventual possible conversion of rain forest to savanna in response to global climate change. Based on our current state of knowledge, the governing conditions of this catastrophic change are not defined. Human activities locally, including the economic development activities that are growing the population and the industry within the Basin, also have the potential to shift regional climate, most immediately by an increment in aerosol number and mass concentrations, and the shift is across the range of values to which cloud properties are most sensitive. The ARM Climate Research Facility in the Amazon Basin seeks to understand aerosol and cloud life cycles, particularly the susceptibility to cloud aerosol precipitation interactions, within the Amazon Basin.
Research Organization:
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US); ARM Data Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
PNNL, BNL, ANL, ORNL
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1346559
Availability:
ORNL
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

Tropical Convective Transition Statistics and Causality in the Water Vapor–Precipitation Relation journal March 2017
Convective cloud vertical velocity and mass-flux characteristics from radar wind profiler observations during GoAmazon2014/5 journal November 2016
Convective storms and non-classical low-level jets during high ozone level episodes in the Amazon region: An ARM/GOAMAZON case study journal April 2017
Deep Convection and Column Water Vapor over Tropical Land versus Tropical Ocean: A Comparison between the Amazon and the Tropical Western Pacific journal October 2016
Amazon boundary layer aerosol concentration sustained by vertical transport during rainfall journal October 2016
Linking Meteorology, Turbulence, and Air Chemistry in the Amazon Rain Forest journal December 2016
Cloudiness over the Amazon rainforest: Meteorology and thermodynamics
  • Collow, Allison B. Marquardt; Miller, Mark A.; Trabachino, Lynne C.
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 121, Issue 13, p. 7990-8005 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD024848
journal July 2016
The Green Ocean Amazon Experiment (GoAmazon2014/5) Observes Pollution Affecting Gases, Aerosols, Clouds, and Rainfall over the Rain Forest journal May 2017

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Amazon, heat, climate, convection, tropical, basin, aerosol, global, mass, and cloud cycle