EUREC4A Field Study: Do Clouds Amplify Global Warming?

EUREC⁴A, the world’s largest measurement campaign to investigate the role of clouds in the climate system, began in early 2020. It took place on and off the Caribbean island of Barbados. More than 40 partner institutions were involved, four research aircraft and four research vessels were deployed, combined with ground measurement stations and satellite remote sensing.

Now the science guiding the field campaign EUREC⁴A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) and its measurements is presented in a recent publication. In addition to Prof. Björn Stevens of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Dr. Sandrine Bony of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique in Paris, and an international team of nearly three hundred co-authors, CEN meteorologist Prof. Felix Ament is also involved.