GOAmazon2014 Workshop report, Arlington, Virginia, July 26-27, 2011
- USDOE Office of Science, Washington, D.C. (United States)
Tropical deep convection in the Amazon is primarily in its natural state during the wet season, with significant aerosol input from open biomass burning in the dry season. The underlying processes that drive convection and cloud formation in this region are poorly understood and modeled. This limited understanding, along with a lack of observational datasets, is insufficient for model constraint. Given the current state of the science, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research’s (BER) Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD) will conduct an integrated experiment to study the coupled atmosphere-cloud-terrestrial tropical systems that drive tropical deep convection in the Amazon. The overarching goal is to advance the understanding of how land-atmosphere processes affect tropical hydrology and climate. This experiment, Green Ocean Amazon 2014 (GOAmazon2014), will extend through the wet and dry seasons for 1 year, from January 1 to December 31, 2014. BER’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), and Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) programs will provide observational resources for deployment in the Amazon Basin downwind of the Brazilian megacity of Manaus. The Regional and Global Climate Modeling (RGCM), Earth System Modeling (ESM), Atmospheric System Research (ASR), and TES programs will support research using these and other data to evaluate and improve the representation of these coupled processes in climate models.
- Research Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Washington, D.C. (United States). Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 1471703
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-0141
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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