Mission: PERCUSION
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Description

Full mission name: Persistent EarthCare underflight studies of the ITCZ and organized convection

Description:

PERCUSION is a German initiative that uses the German research aircraft HALO and ESAs EarthCARE satellite aiming to test factors hypothesized to influence the organization of deep maritime convection in the tropics, and the influence of convective organization on its larger-scale environment. PERCUSION will extend the NARVAL missions and EUREC4A cases to missing convective (and aerosol) regimes and contribute to a broader view of cloud-circulation coupling over the tropical oceans. HALO operated three weeks in the western (42W-60W) tropical Atlantic flying out of Barbados, and three weeks in the eastern (25W-43W) flying out of Cape Verde, respectively.

Map of the measuring area

Flights

Mission Info

• Start: 2024-07-03
• Stop: 2024-11-19
• Region:
  • North America › Barbados
• Begin free data access: 2029-11-18
• Website: https://orcestra-campaign.org/percusion.html
• Project: The mission PERCUSION is associated with the project SPP 1294 HALO.

Data Origin

Genesis of the data (see glossary).

Instruments

1. Platform HALO
   • Instrument SMART
   • Instrument BAHAMAS
   • Instrument not specified.

Models

No model specified.

Available datasets