ORACLES B-roll
Southern Africa produces almost a third of the world’s vegetative burning, which sends smoke particles up into the atmosphere, where they eventually mix with stratocumulus clouds over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. The Observations of Clouds above Aerosols and their Interactions (ORACLES) study is investigating how these particles impact the stratocumulus clouds, which play a key role in both regional and global surface temperatures and precipitation, in order to help improve current climate models.
A team of scientists worked out of Walvis Bay, Nambia, with NASA’s P-3 and ER-2 research aircraft to get first-hand measurements of clouds and aerosols in August-Sept, 2016.
NASA P-3 Science Flight GoPro Cabin and Cockpit
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02 Sept 2016
NASA P-3 Take-off, Walvis Bay Airport
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30 Aug 2016
NASA P-3 Taxi, Walvis Bay Airport
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30 Aug 2016
Scientists deplane, hangar exterior, Walvis Bay Airport
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30 Aug 2016
Science Team Post Flight Debriefing. NASA ER-2 Aircraft in Hangar
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02 Sept 2016
NASA P-3 Aircraft, Low Altitude Sampling over Atlantic Ocean
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02 Sept 2016
NASA P-3 Aircraft, Nadir (downward looking) view of clouds
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02 Sept 2016
NASA P-3 Scientists
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02 Sept 2016
NASA P-3 Scientists
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NASA P-3 Scientists, Cockpit
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NASA P-3 Pilots, Cockpit, Atlantic Ocean
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02 Sept 2016
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producers
- Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA)
- Jane Peterson (University of North Dakota)
- Jefferson Beck (USRA)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Editor
- Jane Peterson (University of North Dakota)
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Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, September 13, 2016.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM EDT.