The Coupling Between Tropical Meteorology, Aerosol Lifecycle, Convection, and Radiation during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex)

Authors

J. S. Reid, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
H. B. Maring, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gemma T. Narisma, Ateneo de Manila UniversityFollow
S. Van Den Heever, Colorado State University
L. Di Girolamo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
R. Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center
P. Lawson, Stratton Park Engineering Company
G. G. Mace, The University of Utah
James Bernard Simpas, Ateneo de Manila UniversityFollow
S. Tanelli, California Institute of Technology
L. Ziemba, NASA Langley Research Center
B. Van Diedenhoven, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
R. Bruintjes, National Center for Atmospheric Research
A. Bucholtz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Cairns B. Flynn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
M. O. Cambaliza, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
G. Chen, NASA Langley Research Center
G. S. Diskin, NASA Langley Research Center
J. H. Flynn, University of Houston
C. A. Hostetler, NASA Langley Research Center
R. E. Holz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2023

Abstract

The NASA Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) employed the NASA P-3, Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) Learjet 35, and a host of satellites and surface sensors to characterize the coupling of aerosol processes, cloud physics, and atmospheric radiation within the Maritime Continent's complex southwest monsoonal environment. Conducted in the late summer of 2019 from Luzon, Philippines, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research Propagation of Intraseasonal Tropical Oscillations (PISTON) experiment with its R/V Sally Ride stationed in the northwestern tropical Pacific, CAMP2Ex documented diverse biomass burning, industrial and natural aerosol populations, and their interactions with small to congestus convection. The 2019 season exhibited El Niño conditions and associated drought, high biomass burning emissions, and an early monsoon transition allowing for observation of pristine to massively polluted environments as they advected through intricate diurnal mesoscale and radiative environments into the monsoonal trough. CAMP2Ex's preliminary results indicate 1) increasing aerosol loadings tend to invigorate congestus convection in height and increase liquid water paths; 2) lidar, polarimetry, and geostationary Advanced Himawari Imager remote sensing sensors have skill in quantifying diverse aerosol and cloud properties and their interaction; and 3) high-resolution remote sensing technologies are able to greatly improve our ability to evaluate the radiation budget in complex cloud systems. Through the development of innovative informatics technologies, CAMP2Ex provides a benchmark dataset of an environment of extremes for the study of aerosol, cloud, and radiation processes as well as a crucible for the design of future observing systems.

Recommended Citation

Reid, J. S., and Coauthors, 2023: The Coupling Between Tropical Meteorology, Aerosol Lifecycle, Convection, and Radiation during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E1179–E1205, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0285.1.