The NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

Eric J Jensen; Leonhard Pfister; David E Jordan; Thaopaul V Bui; Rei Ueyama; Hanwant B Singh; Troy D Thornberry; Andrew W Rollins; Ru-Shan Gao; David W Fahey; Karen H Rosenlof; James W Elkins; Glenn S Diskin; Joshua P DiGangi; R. Paul Lawson; Sarah Woods; Elliot L Atlas; Maria A Navarro Rodriguez; Steven C Wofsy; Jasna Pittman; Charles G Bardeen; Owen B Toon; Bruce C Kindel; Paul A Newman; Matthew J McGill; Dennis L Hlavka; Leslie R Lait; Mark R Schoeberl; John W Bergman; Henry B Selkirk; M. Joan Alexander; Ji-Eun Kim; Boon H Lim; Jochen Stutz; Klaus Pfeilsticker

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The NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

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The NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

Eric J Jensen, Leonhard Pfister, David E Jordan, Thaopaul V Bui, Rei Ueyama, Hanwant B Singh, Troy D Thornberry, Andrew W Rollins, Ru-Shan Gao, David W Fahey, …

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol.98(1), pp.129-143

2017-01-01

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00263.1

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Abstract The February–March 2014 deployment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) provided unique in situ measurements in the western Pacific tropical tropopause layer (TTL). Six flights were conducted from Guam with the long-range, high-altitude, unmanned Global Hawk aircraft. The ATTREX Global Hawk payload provided measurements of water vapor, meteorological conditions, cloud properties, tracer and chemical radical concentrations, and radiative fluxes. The campaign was partially coincident with the Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) and the Coordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics (CAST) airborne campaigns based in Guam using lower-altitude aircraft (see companion articles in this issue). The ATTREX dataset is being used for investigations of TTL cloud, transport, dynamical, and chemical processes, as well as for evaluation and improvement of global-model representations of TTL processes. The ATTREX data are publicly available online (at https://espoarchive.nasa.gov/).

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Title: The NASA Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific
Creators: Eric J Jensen - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Leonhard Pfister - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
David E Jordan - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Thaopaul V Bui - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Rei Ueyama - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Hanwant B Singh - NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
Troy D Thornberry - NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado
Andrew W Rollins - NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado
Ru-Shan Gao - NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
David W Fahey - NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
Karen H Rosenlof - NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
James W Elkins - NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado
Glenn S Diskin - NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
Joshua P DiGangi - NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
R. Paul Lawson - SPEC Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Sarah Woods - SPEC Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Elliot L Atlas - University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Maria A Navarro Rodriguez - University of Miami, Miami, Florida
Steven C Wofsy - Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jasna Pittman - Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charles G Bardeen - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Owen B Toon - University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Bruce C Kindel - University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Paul A Newman - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Matthew J McGill - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Dennis L Hlavka - Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland
Leslie R Lait - Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
Mark R Schoeberl - Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, Maryland
John W Bergman - Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, California
Henry B Selkirk - University Space Research Associates, Greenbelt, Maryland
M. Joan Alexander - NorthWest Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates Office, Boulder, Colorado
Ji-Eun Kim - NorthWest Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates Office, Boulder, Colorado
Boon H Lim - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Jochen Stutz - University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Klaus Pfeilsticker - University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Publication Details: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol.98(1), pp.129-143
Academic Unit: Rosenstiel School; Rosenstiel - Atmospheric Sciences
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991031578591202976