NASA's Aerosol Cloud Meteorology Interactions Over the Western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) team is hosting a free virtual open data workshop for its annual science team meeting on November 20, 2024. The draft workshop agenda includes a focus on the ACTIVATE airborne field campaign and its datasets, and highlights several ACTIVATE campaign science use case talks from the science team and the user community. Registration closes November 8.
Marine boundary layer clouds play a critical role in Earth’s energy balance and water cycle. NASA’s ACTIVATE airborne field campaign was a five-year project (January 2019 to December 2023) that provided globally-relevant data about changes in marine boundary layer cloud systems, atmospheric aerosols, and feedbacks that warm or cool the climate. The campaign studied the atmosphere over the western North Atlantic Ocean and sampled its broad range of aerosol, cloud, and meteorological conditions using joint flights with two aircraft based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. As an integral part of ACTIVATE, a suite of modeling tools and analysis techniques were used to inform preflight planning, perform data analysis, and assess climate model uncertainty quantification and improvement.