Observations from the NOAA P-3 aircraft during ATOMIC

Pincus, Robert; Fairall, Chris W.; Bailey, Adriana; Chen, Haonan; Chuang, Patrick Y.; de Boer, Gijs; Feingold, Graham; Henze, Dean; Kalen, Quinn T.; Kazil, Jan; Leandro, Mason; Lundry, Ashley; Moran, Ken; Naeher, Dana A.; Noone, David; Patel, Akshar J.; Pezoa, Sergio; PopStefanija, Ivan; Thompson, Elizabeth J.; Warnecke, James; Zuidema, Paquita

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3281-2021

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Observations from the NOAA P-3 aircraft during ATOMIC

Robert Pincus, Chris W. Fairall, Adriana Bailey, Haonan Chen, Patrick Y. Chuang, Gijs de Boer, Graham Feingold, Dean Henze, Quinn T. Kalen, Jan Kazil, Mason Leandro, Ashley Lundry, Ken Moran, Dana A. Naeher, David Noone, Akshar J. Patel, Sergio Pezoa, Ivan PopStefanija, Elizabeth J. Thompson, James Warnecke, and Paquita Zuidema

Data sets

ATOMIC aircraft flight level navigation meteorology: Wind speed, relative humidity, aircraft parameters, and other measurements taken from N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-17 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220621) Center and Laboratory https://doi.org/10.25921/7jf5-wv54

ATOMIC aircraft water vapor Picarro: Water vapor measurements from isotope analyzer aboard N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-17 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220631) National Center for Atmospheric Research https://doi.org/10.25921/c5yx-7w29

ATOMIC aircraft in situ microphysics: Size-resolved cloud and aerosol number concentrations taken from N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-31 to 2020-02-10 (NCEI Accession 0232458) Mason Leandro and Patrick Chuang https://doi.org/10.25921/vwvq-5015

ATOMIC aircraft AXBT: Subsurface ocean temperature measurements from Airborne eXpendable BathyThermographs (AXBT) deployed from N43 aircraft, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-19 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220436) NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory https://doi.org/10.25921/pe39-sx75

ATOMIC aircraft W-band radar: Reflectivity, Doppler velocity, and spectral width taken from W-band radar abouard N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-17 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220624) NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory https://doi.org/10.25921/n1hc-dc30

ATOMIC aircraft remote sensing cloud, rain, wind, wave: Cloud and precipitation parameters and 10-meter wind speed estimated from remote sensing instruments aboard N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-17 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220625) NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory https://doi.org/10.25921/x9q5-9745

ATOMIC aircraft remote sensing wave, rain:Wave height and other measurements from wide-swath radar altimeter (WSRA) aboard N43 aircraft in the North Atlantic Ocean, Barbados: Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign 2020-01-17 to 2020-02-11 (NCEI Accession 0220627) Prosensing, Inc. https://doi.org/10.25921/qm06-qx04

Short summary

This paper describes observations taken from a research aircraft during a field experiment in the western Atlantic Ocean during January and February 2020. The plane made 11 flights, most 8-9 h long, and measured the properties of the atmosphere and ocean with a combination of direct measurements, sensors falling from the plane to profile the atmosphere and ocean, and remote sensing measurements of clouds and the ocean surface.