In Summer 2004 several coordinated experiments will study
air quality, intercontinental transport, and radiation balance in air masses
carried across the US, over the Atlantic, and onward to Europe. NASA is
organizing the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America
(INTEX-NA). NOAA is organizing
the New England Air Quality Study - Intercontinental Transport and Chemical
Transformation (NEAQS - ITCT)
2004. And Europeans (U.K., Germany, and France) are organizing coordinated
studies under Intercontinental Transport of Pollution (ITOP). The International
Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) was formed to enhance
the synergy between INTEX, ITCT and ITOP by planning and executing a series
of coordinated experiments to study the emissions of aerosol and ozone precursors
their chemical transformations and removal during transport to and over
the North Atlantic.
AATS-14 will participate in INTEX and
ITCT by flying on the twin turboprop Jetstream-31, based at Portsmouth,
NH in July and August 2004. Its goal is to help characterize aerosol
radiative properties and effects in flights that sample polluted and clean
air masses in coordination with measurements by other INTEX-ITCT platforms,
including aircraft and a ship. |
