Smoke and Clouds above the Southeast Atlantic: Upcoming Field Campaigns Probe Absorbing Aerosol’s Impact on Climate
Abstract
A general article meant to introduce a wide readership to upcoming field campaigns in the southeast Atlantic. From July through October, smoke from biomass-burning (BB) fires on the southern African subcontinent is transported westward through the free troposphere over one of the largest stratocumulus cloud decks on our planet (Fig. 1). BB aerosol (smoke) absorbs shortwave radiation efficiently. This fundamental property implicates smoke within myriad small-scale processes with potential large-scale impacts on climate that are not yet well understood. A coordinated, international team of scientists from the United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa, and Namibia will provide an unprecedented interrogation of this smoke-and-cloud regime from 2016 to 2018, using multiple aircraft and surface-based instrumentation suites to span much of the breadth of the southeast Atlantic.
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- Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL (United States)
- NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Exeter, Exeter (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- North-West Univ., Potchefstroom (South Africa)
- Univ. of Namibia, Windhoek (Namibia)
- Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques, Creteil (France)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Miami, FL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1609086
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0013720
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 7; Related Information: Zuidema, P., J. Redemann, J. Haywood, R. Wood, S. Piketh, M. Hipondoka, and P. Formenti, 2016: Smoke and clouds above the southeast Atlantic: Upcoming field campaigns probe absorbing aerosol's impact on climate.Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 97, pp. 1131-1135, doi: 10.1175/bams-d-15-00082.1; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-0007
- Publisher:
- American Meteorological Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Citation Formats
Zuidema, Paquita, Redemann, Jens, Haywood, James, Wood, Robert, Piketh, Stuart, Hipondoka, Martin, and Formenti, Paola. Smoke and Clouds above the Southeast Atlantic: Upcoming Field Campaigns Probe Absorbing Aerosol’s Impact on Climate. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00082.1.
Zuidema, Paquita, Redemann, Jens, Haywood, James, Wood, Robert, Piketh, Stuart, Hipondoka, Martin, & Formenti, Paola. Smoke and Clouds above the Southeast Atlantic: Upcoming Field Campaigns Probe Absorbing Aerosol’s Impact on Climate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00082.1
Zuidema, Paquita, Redemann, Jens, Haywood, James, Wood, Robert, Piketh, Stuart, Hipondoka, Martin, and Formenti, Paola. Fri .
"Smoke and Clouds above the Southeast Atlantic: Upcoming Field Campaigns Probe Absorbing Aerosol’s Impact on Climate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00082.1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1609086.
@article{osti_1609086,
title = {Smoke and Clouds above the Southeast Atlantic: Upcoming Field Campaigns Probe Absorbing Aerosol’s Impact on Climate},
author = {Zuidema, Paquita and Redemann, Jens and Haywood, James and Wood, Robert and Piketh, Stuart and Hipondoka, Martin and Formenti, Paola},
abstractNote = {A general article meant to introduce a wide readership to upcoming field campaigns in the southeast Atlantic. From July through October, smoke from biomass-burning (BB) fires on the southern African subcontinent is transported westward through the free troposphere over one of the largest stratocumulus cloud decks on our planet (Fig. 1). BB aerosol (smoke) absorbs shortwave radiation efficiently. This fundamental property implicates smoke within myriad small-scale processes with potential large-scale impacts on climate that are not yet well understood. A coordinated, international team of scientists from the United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa, and Namibia will provide an unprecedented interrogation of this smoke-and-cloud regime from 2016 to 2018, using multiple aircraft and surface-based instrumentation suites to span much of the breadth of the southeast Atlantic.},
doi = {10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00082.1},
journal = {Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society},
number = 7,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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