ASDC | ACCLIP_Cloud_AircraftInSitu_WB57_Data

ACCLIP Level 2

Entry Title: ACCLIP WB-57 Aircraft In-situ Cloud Data

Entry ID: ACCLIP_Cloud_AircraftInSitu_WB57_Data_1

Aerosols Clouds

Description

ACCLIP_Cloud_AircraftInSitu_WB57_Data is the in-situ cloud data collection during the Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical & Climate Impact Project (ACCLIP). Data from the Cloud, Aerosol, and Precipitation Spectrometer (CAPS) is featured in this collection. Data collection for this product is complete.

ACCLIP is an international, multi-organizational suborbital campaign that aims to study aerosols and chemical transport that is associated with the Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) in the Western Pacific region from 15 July 2022 to 31 August 2022. The ASM is the largest meteorological pattern in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) during the summer and is associated with persistent convection and large anticyclonic flow patterns in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). This leads to significant enhancements in the UTLS of trace species that originate from pollution or biomass burning. Convection connected to the ASM occurs over South, Southeast, and East Asia, a region with complex and rapidly changing emissions due to its high population density and economic growth. Pollution that reaches the UTLS from this region can have significant effects on the climate and chemistry of the atmosphere, making it important to have an accurate representation and understanding of ASM transport, chemical, and microphysical processes for chemistry-climate models to characterize these interactions and for predicting future impacts on climate.

The ACCLIP campaign is conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) with the primary goal of investigating the impacts of Asian gas and aerosol emissions on global chemistry and climate. The NASA WB-57 and NCAR G-V aircraft are outfitted with state-of-the-art sensors to accomplish this. ACCLIP seeks to address four scientific objectives related to its main goal. The first is to investigate the transport pathways of ASM uplifted air from inside of the anticyclone to the global UTLS. Another objective is to sample the chemical content of air processed in the ASM in order to quantify the role of the ASM in transporting chemically active species and short-lived climate forcing agents to the UTLS to determine their impact on stratospheric ozone chemistry and global climate. Third, information is obtained on aerosol size, mass, and chemical composition that is necessary for determining the radiative effects of the ASM to constrain models of aerosol formation and for contrasting the organic-rich ASM UTLS aerosol population with that of the background aerosols. Last, ACCLIP seeks to measure the water vapor distribution associated with the monsoon dynamical structure to evaluate transport across the tropopause and determine the role of the ASM in water vapor transport in the stratosphere.

DOI

10.5067/ASDC/SUBORBITAL/ACCLIP_Cloud_AircraftInSitu_WB57_Data_1

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Transient Behavior of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone Associated With Eastward Eddy Shedding

Transport From the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone Over the Western Pacific

From GCMD Science Keywords:

CLOUD INDICATORS
CLOUD PROPERTIES
AEROSOL CONCENTRATION > AEROSOL PARTICLE PROPERTIES
CLOUDS

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Spatial Information

Spatial Coverage: (S: 16.6, N: 61.5), (W: -180, E: 180)
Spatial Coverage Type: Horizontal Vertical
Coordinate System: Cartesian
Granule Spatial Representation: Cartesian

Locations

ASIA SOUTHEASTERN ASIA SOUTHERN ASIA PACIFIC OCEAN WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE

Temporal Information

Temporal Coverage: 2022-07-14 - 2022-09-15

Platforms

Jet

NASA WB-57F

CAPS

Cloud, Aerosol, Precipitation Spectrometer

Metadata Dates

Created on 2023-02-13

Last updated on 2024-02-23