Earth Sciences Division

ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS (ORACLES)

Class:

Field Campaign

Status:

Past

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Launch Date:

2016

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ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) was a five year investigation with three Intensive Observation Periods (IOP) designed to study key processes that determine the climate impacts of African BB aerosols.

The ORACLES experiment provided multi-year airborne observations over the complete vertical column of the key parameters that drive aerosol-cloud interactions in the SE Atlantic, an area with some of the largest inter-model differences in aerosol forcing assessments on the planet.

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