Session 17A The 2021 and 2022 Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) Field Campaigns: Untangling Interactions between Convection, Aerosols, and Winds in the Tropical North Atlantic - II

Friday, 10 May 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Shoreline AB (Hyatt Regency Long Beach)
Host: 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Cochairs:
Edward P. Nowottnick, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio and Svetla Hristova-Veleva, JPL, Pasadena, CA

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.

Papers:
8:30 AM
17A.1
Multi-Frequency Radar Observations of Tropical Oceanic Convection during CPEX-CV
Angela Rowe, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and B. D. Rodenkirch, G. Martinez, E. J. Zipser, M. Rajagopal, R. Rodriguez Monje, O. Sy, and S. Tanelli

8:45 AM
17A.2
9:00 AM
17A.3
Relating Convective Lifecycle to Near-Storm Environmental Parameters: Insights from Two CPEX-CV Cases
Giselle Martinez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and A. K. Rowe and B. D. Rodenkirch

9:15 AM
17A.4
The Influence of Synoptics on Mesoscale Convective Systems and Associated Diurnal Cycle over Coastal West Africa
Shun-Nan Wu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Sakaeda, R. Rios-Berrios, and E. R. Martin

9:30 AM
17A.5
Effects of Large-Scale Perturbations on the Evolution of Coastal Offshore Convection over West Africa
Naoko Sakaeda, ; and S. N. Wu, K. M. Núñez Ocasio, E. R. Martin, R. Rios-Berrios, K. M. Bedka, B. Lambrigtsen, A. R. Nehrir, S. Wong, R. Rodriguez Monje, M. A. Hollis, Q. A. Lawton, E. J. Zipser, J. Collins, R. A. Barton-Grimley, M. Schreier, and O. Sy

9:45 AM
17A.6
Nocturnal Offshore Convection: The Role of the West African Monsoon and Land Breeze during CPEX-CV
Kelly M. Nunez Ocasio, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; and S. N. Wu, R. Rios-Berrios, N. Sakaeda, A. Rowe, K. L. Thornhill, K. M. Bedka, Q. A. Lawton, and L. Huaman

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