The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): goals, platforms, and field operations

Wood, R., C.R. Mechoso, C. Bretherton, R.W. WELLER, B. Huebert, F. Straneo, B.A. Albrecht, H. Coe, G. Allen, G. Vaughan, P. Daum, C. Fairall, D. Chand, L.G. Klenner, R. Garreaud, C. Grados, D.S. Covert, T. Bates, R. Krejci, L.M. Russell, S. de Szoeke, A. Brewer, S.E. Yuter, S.R. Springston, A. Chaigneau, T. Toniazzo, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, S.J. Abel, W.O.J. Brown, S. Williams, J. Fochesatto, . Brioude, and K.N. Bower (2011), The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): goals, platforms, and field operations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 627-654, doi:10.5194/acp-11-627-2011.
Abstract

The VAMOS1 Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx) was an international field program designed to make observations of poorly understood but critical components of the coupled climate system of the southeast Pacific. This region is characterized by strong coastal upwelling, the coolest SSTs in the tropical belt, and is home to the largest subtropical stratocumulus deck on Earth. The field intensive phase of VOCALSREx took place during October and November 2008 and constitutes a critical part of a broader CLIVAR program (VOCALS) designed to develop and promote scientific activities leading to improved understanding, model simulations, and predictions of the southeastern Pacific (SEP) coupled ocean-atmosphere-land system, on diurnal to interannual timescales. The other major components of VOCALS are a modeling program with a model hierarchy ranging from the local to global scales, and a suite of extended observations from regular research cruises, instrumented moorings,

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