ACTIVATE GOES-16 Supplementary Data Products

Description

ACTIVATE_Satellite_Data_1 is the GOES-16 satellite data supporting the ACTIVATE suborbital campaign. ACTIVATE was a 5-year NASA Earth-Venture Sub-Orbital (EVS-3) field campaign. Marine boundary layer clouds play a critical role in Earth’s energy balance and water cycle. These clouds cover more than 45% of the ocean surface and exert a net cooling effect. The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) project was a five-year project that provides important globally-relevant data about changes in marine boundary layer cloud systems, atmospheric aerosols and multiple feedbacks that warm or cool the climate. ACTIVATE studied the atmosphere over the western North Atlantic and sampled its broad range of aerosol, cloud and meteorological conditions using two aircraft, the UC-12 King Air and HU-25 Falcon. The UC-12 King Air was primarily used for remote sensing measurements while the HU-25 Falcon will contain a comprehensive instrument payload for detailed in-situ measurements of aerosol, cloud properties, and atmospheric state. A few trace gas measurements were also onboard the HU-25 Falcon for the measurements of pollution traces, which will contribute to airmass classification analysis. A total of 150 coordinated flights over the western North Atlantic occurred through 6 deployments from 2020-2022. The ACTIVATE science observing strategy intensively targets the shallow cumulus cloud regime and aims to collect sufficient statistics over a broad range of aerosol and weather conditions which enables robust characterization of aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions. This strategy was implemented by two nominal flight patterns: Statistical Survey and Process Study. The statistical survey pattern involves close coordination between the remote sensing and in-situ aircraft to conduct near coincident sampling at and below cloud base as well as above and within cloud top. The process study pattern involves extensive vertical profiling to characterize the target cloud and surrounding aerosol and meteorological conditions.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Armin Sorooshian Researcher Profile https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/851338f794274388bd5f3280eda55612
21 Nasa.gov Feature “Probing the Hazy Mysteries of Marine Clouds” https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/probing-the-hazy-mysteries-of-marine-clouds
21 Nasa.gov Feature “ACTIVATE Makes a Careful Return to Flight” https://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/activate-makes-a-careful-return-to-flight
21 ASDC Microarticle “Advancing Aerosol-Cloud-Meteorology Knowledge through ACTIVATE” https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/micro-article/advancing-aerosol-cloud-meteorology-knowledge-through-activate
21 ACTIVATE NASA LaRC Airborne Science Data for Atmospheric Composition Project Home Page https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/activate/index.html
21 How to Cite ASDC Data https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/citing-data
21 Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
21 Earthdata Search for ACTIVATE-Satellite_1 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2647017088-LARC_ASDC
21 DOI for ACTIVATE-Satellite_1 https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC/SUBORBITAL/ACTIVATE-Satellite_1
21 ACTIVATE Project Home Page https://activate.larc.nasa.gov/
21 Nasa.gov Feature “NASA Embarks on Five U.S. Expeditions Targeting Air, Land, and Sea” https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-embarks-on-us-cross-country-expeditions
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FASDC%2FSUBORBITAL%2FACTIVATE-Satellite_1
21 ASDC Direct Data Download for ACTIVATE-Satellite_1 https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/data/ACTIVATE/Satellite_1/

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  • precipitation
  • atmosphere
  • clouds
  • earth-science

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