VOCALS
2008 VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmos-Land Study (VOCALS)
14 October 2008 - 13 November 2008
Lead Scientist: Peter Daum
Observatory: osc, osc
The DOE G-1 aircraft was deployed to Arica, Chile as part of the NSF VAMOS Ocean-Cloud- Atmospheric-Land Study (VOCALS). The purpose of VOCALS is to develop an understanding of the physical and chemical processes central to the climate system of the Southeast Pacific. In this region, extensive areas of marine clouds exist (coverage about 70% in October). The ASP component of VOCALS focused on aerosols, and how their chemical and microphysical properties, and their ability to act as CCN differ between remote marine air masses and marine air masses that have been influenced to varying degrees by anthropogenic aerosols, and how these differences in aerosol properties influence the microphysical properties of the clouds that form in these different environments. The NSF C-130 aircraft and the NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown also collected data in the region during the G-1 flights.
The data collected during this field campaign allow examination of the relationship between aerosol composition, size, and CCN activity; between CCN loading and activity and cloud droplet microphysics; between cloud droplet microphysics and cloud radiative properties (first indirect effect studies); and between cloud droplet microphysics and the formation of drizzle (second indirect aerosol effect studies). Data can also be used to examine the validity of recently developed parameterizations of cloud microphysical processes and the properties designed for use in GCMs, and to develop the physical insight needed to develop more complete and sophisticated parameterizations of these quantities.
The G-1 was instrumented with its standard suite for meteorology/state parameters. Additional instrumentation allowed characterization of the chemical and microphysical properties of aerosols and the microphysical properties of clouds. Trace-gas instrumentation measured aerosol precursors (SO_2 and DMS) and species that aid in estimating anthropogenic contributions to aerosols (CO and O_3 ) in the air masses being sampled. Aerosol optical properties (absorbance and scattering), size distributions and concentrations of aerosols and clouds, aerosol chemical composition and cloud forming tendencies were all measured using a suite of research grade instruments modified for aircraft operations. Flights included below-cloud legs to measure pre-cloud aerosol properties, in-cloud flights at several altitudes to examine the relationships between pre-cloud aerosol properties, cloud dynamics and cloud droplet microphysics, and their variation with altitude, and sampling through and above cloud top to define the vertical dimensions of the cloud, to document the thermodynamic structure of the atmosphere, and to sample the properties of the above-cloud aerosols.
Co-Investigators
Larry Kleinman | Robert McGraw | Jian Wang |
Yin-Nan Lee | Gunnar Senum | |
Yangang Liu | Stephen Springston |
Timeline
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Zhang C and J Moore. 2023. "A Road Map to Success of International Field Campaigns in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 104(1), 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0133.1.
2022
Wang H, Y Peng, K von Salzen, Y Yang, W Zhou, and D Zhao. 2022. "Evaluation of a quasi-steady-state approximation of the cloud droplet growth equation (QDGE) scheme for aerosol activation in global models using multiple aircraft data over both continental and marine environments." Geoscientific Model Development, 15(7), 10.5194/gmd-15-2949-2022.
Fung K, C Heald, J Kroll, S Wang, D Jo, A Gettelman, Z Lu, X Liu, R Zaveri, E Apel, D Blake, J Jimenez, P Campuzano-Jost, P Veres, T Bates, J Shilling, and M Zawadowicz. 2022. "Exploring dimethyl sulfide (DMS) oxidation and implications for global aerosol radiative forcing." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(2), 10.5194/acp-22-1549-2022.
2021
Jensen M, V Ghate, D Wang, D Apoznanski, M Bartholomew, S Giangrande, K Johnson, and M Thieman. 2021. "Contrasting characteristics of open- and closed-cellular stratocumulus cloud in the eastern North Atlantic." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(19), 10.5194/acp-21-14557-2021.
Research Highlight
Thompson D, B Kahn, P Brodrick, M Lebsock, M Richardson, and R Green. 2021. "Spectroscopic imaging of sub-kilometer spatial structure in lower-tropospheric water vapor." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14(4), 10.5194/amt-14-2827-2021.
2020
Vivekanandan J, V Ghate, J Jensen, S Ellis, and M Schwartz. 2020. "A Technique for Estimating Liquid Droplet Diameter and Liquid Water Content in Stratocumulus Clouds Using Radar and Lidar Measurements." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, , 10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0092.1. ONLINE.
Johnson J, L Regayre, M Yoshioka, K Pringle, S Turnock, J Browse, D Sexton, J Rostron, N Schutgens, D Partridge, D Liu, J Allan, H Coe, A Ding, D Cohen, A Atanacio, V Vakkari, E Asmi, and K Carslaw. 2020. "Robust observational constraint of uncertain aerosol processes and emissions in a climate model and the effect on aerosol radiative forcing." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(15), 10.5194/acp-20-9491-2020.
Kazimirad M and M Miller. 2020. "Summertime Post-Cold-Frontal Marine Stratocumulus Transition Processes over the Eastern North Atlantic." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(6), 10.1175/JAS-D-19-0167.1.
Research Highlight
2019
Zhang C, Y Wang, and M Xue. 2019. "Evaluation of an E-ε and three other Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes in the WRF Model over the Southeast Pacific and the Southern Great Plains." Monthly Weather Review, 148(3), 10.1175/MWR-D-19-0084.1.
Zhang D, A Vogelmann, P Kollias, E Luke, F Yang, D Lubin, and Z Wang. 2019. "Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic Single‐Layer Stratiform Mixed‐Phase Cloud Properties Using Ground‐Based Remote Sensing Measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(17-18), 10.1029/2019JD030673.
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Campaign Data Sets
IOP Participant | Data Source Name | Final Data |
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John Hubbe | GPS | Order Data |
John Hubbe | Nephelometer | Order Data |
John Hubbe | Particle Soot Absorption Photometer - G-1 Aircraft | Order Data |
John Hubbe | Time of Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer | Order Data |
Alexander Laskin | Time Resolved Aerosol Collectors (AOS inlet) | Order Data |
Yin-Nan Lee | Particle-Into-Liquid Sampler (PILS) | Order Data |
Gunnar Senum | Cloud Aerosol Precip Spectrometer(CAPS)/Cloud Imaging Probe (CIP) | Order Data |
Gunnar Senum | Cloud and Aerosol Spectrometer | Order Data |
Gunnar Senum | Gust Probe | Order Data |
Gunnar Senum | Liquid Water Content (pvm-100a probe, SEA WCM-2000) | Order Data |
Gunnar Senum | Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer | Order Data |
Stephen Springston | Accelerometer- G1 Aircraft | Order Data |
Stephen Springston | Carbon Monoxide and Nitrous Oxide | Order Data |
Stephen Springston | Met | Order Data |
Stephen Springston | Ozone | Order Data |
Jian Wang | Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter | Order Data |
Jian Wang | Scanning mobility particle sizer | Order Data |