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The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment

2008; American Meteorological Society; Volume: 89; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1175/bams-89-5-629

1520-0477

Peter T. May, J. H. Mather, G. Vaughan, Christian Jakob, Greg M. McFarquhar, Keith Bower, Gerald G. Mace,

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

A comprehensive dataset describing tropical cloud systems and their environmental setting and impacts has been collected during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWPICE) and Aerosol and Chemical Transport in Tropical Convection (ACTIVE) campaign in the area around Darwin, Northern Australia, in January and February 2006. The aim of the experiment was to observe the evolution of tropical cloud systems and their interaction with the environment within an observational framework optimized for a range of modeling activities with the goal of improving the representation of cloud and aerosol process in a range of models. The experiment design utilized permanent observational facilities in Darwin, including a polarimetric weather radar and a suite of cloud remote-sensing instruments. This was augmented by a dense network of soundings, together with radiation, flux, lightning, and remote-sensing measurements, as well as oceanographic observations. A fleet of five research aircraft, including ...