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Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment

Atmospheric Composition, Climate Variability & Change

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Data Products

The Campaign

The Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) was a NASA-led campaign designed to investigate stratospheric water vapor and its effect on the Earth’s energy budget and climate. Measurements of atmospheric chemical composition and processes occurring in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) were collected using NASA’s Global Hawk UAV from 2011-2015. The first 2 deployments occurred from California in 2011 and 2013, while the remaining 2 took place from Guam during 2014 and 2015. Instruments onboard the Global Hawk aircraft included chemical sensors such as: the UAS Chromatograph for Tracers (UCATS) and the Harvard Picarro Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer, and a suite of meteorological instruments including the Meteorological Measurement System (MMS). ATTREX was primarily supported by the NASA EVS-1 program.

2011-10-20 — 2015-03-14

California, Guam, Tropics
boreal fall, boreal spring, boreal winter

N: 40°N

S: 15°S

W: 175°W

E: 175°E

Additional Notes

GHOST and AIITS instruments were only used on the 2015 flights. The NW instrument was added to the payload in 2013 and was not used during the 2011 flights

TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
STRATOSPHERIC HUMIDITY
STRATOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYER
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CLOUD PROPERTIES
TROPOPAUSE
WATER VAPOR
CLOUD PROPERTIES
RADIATIVE FLUX
HUMIDITY
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO PROFILES
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Events

4 Deployments
4 IOPs
6 Significant Events
20122013201420152016

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Platforms
PLATFORMS
Instruments
INSTRUMENTS
External Link10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/ATTREX/0002
External Link10.5067/AIRCRAFT/ATTREX/CLOUD-H2O-TRACER-RADIATION
External Link10.5067/ASDC_DAAC/ATTREX/0001
NASA
EVS-1
Dr. Ken Jucks, Hal Maring
Eric Jensen
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CPO, DFG, NERC