From the beginning of August to the end of September the Meteorological Institute contributed to the HALO aircraft campaign PERCUSION. The cloud systems of the intertropical convergence zone were studied using the German research aircraft HALO from Cape Verde and Barbados islands, i.e. from both sides of the Atlantic, and with the new ESA satellite […]
The ORCESTRA started his performance on August 10th in Cap Verde. The PERCUSION gives the beat by flying back and forth across the belt of deep rain over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, while the MAESTRO directs his plane around fields of broken cumuli around Cap Verde to understand how convective storms form and organize. The
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From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study will investigate trade wind clouds in the Tropical Atlantic. EUREC4A is a French-German initiated field study led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of the department “The