Mission: NARVAL
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Description

Full mission name: North Atlantic Rainfall VALidation

Description:

NARVAL (Next-generation Aircraft Remote sensing for Validation Studies) was conceived as a mission devoted to better understanding the prevalence and structure of clouds and precipitation from shallow convection in two large-scale regimes. The first being in the tradewind regions of the North Atlantic (NARVAL South), the other in the cold sector of developing winter storms, over the mid-latitude stormtrack of the North Atlantic (NARVAL North). The main goal was to explore the use of the new German research airplane HALO (High Altitude and Long range research aircraft) as a remote sensing platform for retrieving the state of the atmosphere with particular attention on moist processes and composition.

Map of the measuring area

Flights

Mission Info

• Start: 2013-12-09
• Stop: 2014-01-31
• Region: North Atlantic
• Begin free data access: 2099-12-31
• Project: The mission NARVAL is associated with the project SPP 1294 HALO.

Data Origin

Genesis of the data (see glossary).

Instruments

1. Platform HALO
   • Instrument BAHAMAS
   • Instrument HALO-SR
   • Instrument mini-DOAS

Models

No model specified.

Available datasets