ACRIDICON-Zugspitze field campaign

From September 17 to October 5, 2012, a field campaign with focus on clouds, aerosols, radiation and dynamics and their interaction in clouds that was coordinated and organized by the Leipzig Institute for Meteorology took place at the Zugspitze mountain.Vom 17. September bis 5. Oktober wurde vom Leipziger Institut eine Feldkampagne zur Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung von Aerosolen, Niederschlag und Strahlung insbesondere in Hinblick auf konvektive Wolken auf der Zugspitze koordiniert und organisiert

ACRIDICON-Zugspitze field campaign

From September 17 to October 5, 2012, a field campaign with focus on clouds, aerosols, radiation and dynamics and their interaction in clouds that was coordinated and organized by the Leipzig Institute for Meteorology took place at the Zugspitze mountain.Vom 17. September bis 5. Oktober wurde vom Leipziger Institut eine Feldkampagne zur Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung von Aerosolen, Niederschlag und Strahlung insbesondere in Hinblick auf konvektive Wolken auf der Zugspitze koordiniert und organisiert

ACRIDICON-Zugspitze field campaign

From September 17 to October 5, 2012, a field campaign with focus on clouds, aerosols, radiation and dynamics and their interaction in clouds that was coordinated and organized by the Leipzig Institute for Meteorology took place at the Zugspitze mountain.Vom 17. September bis 5. Oktober wurde vom Leipziger Institut eine Feldkampagne zur Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung von Aerosolen, Niederschlag und Strahlung insbesondere in Hinblick auf konvektive Wolken auf der Zugspitze koordiniert und organisiert

ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO

Between 1 September and 4 October 2014, a combined airborne and ground-based measurement campaign was conducted to study tropical deep convective clouds over the Brazilian Amazon rain forest. The new German research aircraft, High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO), a modified Gulfstream G550, and extensive ground-based instrumentation were deployed in and near Manaus (State of Amazonas). The campaign was part of the German–Brazilian Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Radiation Interactions and Dynamics of Convective Cloud Systems–Cloud Processes of the Main Precipitation Systems in Brazil: A Contribution to Cloud Resolving Modeling and to the GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement) (ACRIDICON– CHUVA) venture to quantify aerosol–cloud–precipitation interactions and their thermodynamic, dynamic, and radiative effects by in situ and remote sensing measurements over Amazonia. The ACRIDICON–CHUVA field observations were carried out in cooperation with the second intensive operating period of Green Ocean Amazon 2014/15 (GoAmazon2014/5). In this paper we focus on the airborne data measured on HALO, which was equipped with about 30 in situ and remote sensing instruments for meteorological, trace gas, aerosol, cloud, precipitation, and spectral solar radiation measurements