Using An Aircraft Scientists Will Traverse Horizontal Tracks above and through Clouds (IMAGE)

DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Using An Aircraft Scientists Will Traverse Horizontal Tracks above and through Clouds

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Using an aircraft outfitted with 55 atmospheric instrument systems, scientists will traverse horizontal tracks above and through clouds and spiral down through atmospheric layers to provide detailed, on-site measurements of aerosols and cloud properties. The data will supplement measurements made by ground-based radars and other instruments to provide a more complete understanding of how aerosol properties affect low marine boundary layer clouds, and help improve the representations of clouds and aerosols in models of Earth's climate.

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Brookhaven National Laboratory

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