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The VOCALS Regional Experiment: Field activities and preliminary findings I

Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. R. Mechoso, C. S. Bretherton, R. A. Weller, B. A. Albrecht, P. Brown, H. Coe, P. H. Daum, C. W. Fairall, R. D. Garreaud, L. Gallardo, C. Grados, and G. Vaughan

The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx), an international field program designed to make observations of poorly understood but critical components of the coupled climate system of the southeast Pacific, took place during October/November 2008. The aim of VOCALS-REx is to test a set of hypotheses regarding:

(a) links between aerosols, clouds, and precipitation in the stratocumulus-topped boundary layer;

(b) physical and chemical couplings between the ocean, atmosphere and land in the southeast Pacific.

In this presentation we will present a summary of the major field activities and highlight preliminary findings.

  Recorded presentation

Supplementary URL: http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/vocals/

Session 1, Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 1. Overview
Monday, 12 January 2009, 10:55 AM-12:00 PM, Room 128AB

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