A103-07
The Rock Matrix Around CAMP2Ex’s Gemstones: The Value of the Apparently Mundane in Shaping Earth System Observation
Thursday, 10 December 2020: 17:54
Virtual
Hal B Maring1, Jeffrey S. Reid2, Daniel P Eleuterio3, Corey G Amiot4, Jason Apke5, Roelof T Bruintjes6, Allison Callow7, Larry Di Girolamo8, Amanda Gumber9, Dongwei Fu10, Svetla M Hristova-Veleva11, Robert Holz12, Timothy J Lang13, Paul Lawson14, Gerald G Mace15, Andrew Margason16, Steven D Miller17, Gemma Teresa T Narisma18, Stephen W Nesbitt19, Derek J Posselt20, Steven A Rutledge21, Joseph Schlosser22, Sebastian Schmidt23, Geoffrey B Smith24, Armin Sorooshian25, Taichu Y Tanaka26, Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson27, Kenneth Lee Thornhill II28, Bastiaan van Diedenhoven29, Susan C van den Heever21, Voltaire A Velazco30, Sarah Woods31, Peng Xian32 and Jian Wang33, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Office Naval Research, Ocean, Atmosphere and Space Research Division (322), Arlington, VA, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheri, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Skyline College, San Bruno, United States, (8)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (11)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)UW SSEC, Madison, WI, United States, (13)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (14)SPEC Inc, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (16)Hinsdale, IL, United States, (17)Colorado State Univ-CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (18)Atmospheric Science Program, Department of Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, (19)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (20)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (21)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (22)University of Arizona, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (23)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (24)Naval Research Laboratory, Remote Sensing, Washington, DC, United States, (25)University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States, (26)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, (27)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (28)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (29)Columbia University, New York, United States, (30)University of Wollongong, Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, (31)SPEC Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (32)Naval Research Lab, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (33)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, NY, United States
Abstract:
The 2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) sampled one of the most dynamic aerosol environments on the planet. Aerosol loading ranged from massively polluted, including peat burning from Borneo and industrial emissions from China and the Philippines, to the exceptionally pristine background air of the western Pacific. Accompanying this diversity in aerosol properties was similar variability in tropical weather from tropical cyclones and monsoon enhancements to clear skies and glassy seas. Indeed, CAMP2Ex sampled numerous “golden days,” consisting of dramatic conditions with intense gradients and deep convection, and producing copious amounts of data on multiple scales and diverse sensing modes. Often, in the presence of such diversity, the analysis of field data is polarized between case studies and bulk statistics; neither of which captures the temporal and spatial evolution adequately nor the multi-scale cloud, aerosol, and thermodynamic interactions and process evolution. In this presentation, we take the middle ground, and examine the 20 to 25 September 2019 period during which the southwest monsoon transition occurred under what, at first glance, might seem to be pedestrian conditions (e.g., moderate AODs, scattered convection, “typical” satellite imagery). Coordinated flights between the NASA P3 and SPEC Lear 35 along with the ONR Propagation of Intraseasonal Tropical Oscillations (PISTON) sponsored R/V Sally Ride cruise allow for a multi-scale contextual analysis relevant to both CAMP2Ex and PISTON mission objectives. This sampling period, in combination with extensive mission remote sensing (including rapid scan AHI, polar, and commercial data), modeling, and informatics creates an outstanding framework to ask important questions on the nature of observing design, data analysis, and the confounding of multi-scale processes within the Earth’s coupled aerosol, cloud, and radiation system.
