NASA’s Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols and Winds (CPEX-AW) and CPEX – Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) took place out of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and Sal Island, Cabo Verde in August – September 2021 and September 2022, respectively, utilizing the NASA DC-8 aircraft for a total of ~150 flight hours. The CPEX field experiments investigated important interactions between atmospheric dynamics, marine boundary layer properties, convection, and the dust-laden Saharan Air Layer across various spatial scales to improve understanding and predictability of process-level lifecycles in the tropical North Atlantic using a suite of active, passive, and in situ instrumentation. The DC-8 also performed calibration/validation of European Space Agency’s Aeolus wind lidar, including coordinated maneuvers with ASKOS ground-based and airborne instruments, and partnered with the Office of Naval Research on joint research efforts. We welcome presentations related to 1) the overarching science goals of the campaigns and regions sampled, 2) CPEX research that utilizes data from flight case studies 3) calibration/validation of ground & space-based sensors using CPEX data and 4) investigations into the impact of CPEX observations on model predictability.
Note: We anticipate both oral and poster presentation submissions to our session.
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