GCMD Project Keyword Description Update Request

[ASDC - gmojica]

Hello, Through preparation for WebU, the ASDC is requesting the following Project Keyword Descriptions be updated in GCMD. Thank you and let me know if you have any questions.
The requested new descriptions are as follows:

Project: CAMEX-4
New Description: CAMEX-4 was focused on the study of tropical cyclone (hurricane) development, tracking, intensification, and landfalling impacts using NASA-funded aircraft and surface remote sensing instrumentation. The primary aircraft used during CAMEX-4 were the NASA DC-8 and ER-2 research airborne platforms. These instrumented aircraft flew over, through, and around selected hurricanes as the approached landfall in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and along the east coast of the United States. The NASA aircraft investigated upper altitude regions of the hurricane not normally sampled. Where possible, measurements were compared and validated with coincident observations from the QuikSCAT, Terra, and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellites. The study yielded high spatial and temporal information of hurricane structure, dynamics, and motion. These data when analyzed within the context of more traditional aircraft, satellite, and ground-based radar observations provided additional insight to hurricane modelers and forecasters who continually strive to improve hurricane predictions. More accurate hurricane predictions at landfall will result in decreasing the size of necessary coastal evacuations and increasing the warning time for those areas. While remote sensing of the hurricane environment is the primary objective of CAMEX-4, there will also be separate flights to study thunderstorm structure, precipitation systems, and atmospheric water vapor profiles. This portion of CAMEX-4 is known as KAMP, Keys Area Microphysics Project. The objective of the KAMP flights is to improve quantitative precipitation estimates from passive and active microwave instruments.

Project: CAMP2Ex
New Description: The Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) was a response to the need to deconvolute the fields of tropical meteorology and aerosol science at the meso-b to cloud level. The NASA Earth Science Division operated the NASA’s P-3 (tail number N426NA) research aircraft and the SPEC, Inc. Lear Jet 35A (tail number N474KA) out of Clark Airport in the Philippines from August 20 to October 10, 2019.

Project: CLAMS
New Description: Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites (CLAMS) was a satellite validation experiment. The primary objective of CLAMS was to validate satellite retrievals of aerosols, radiative flux, profiles, temperature, water vapor profiles, and sea surface temperature. CLAMS will help us determine how to account for platform effects in the measurement of upwelling radiation.

Project: CPEX
New Description: The NASA Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) aircraft field campaign took place in the North Atlantic-Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Oceanic region from May 25 to June 24, 2017. This campaign collected data that helped to answer questions about convective storm initiation, organization, growth, and dissipation. For this effort, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft logged 100 hours of flight time and was equipped with multiple instruments capable of taking measurements that helped scientists improve their understanding of convective processes.

Project: CPEX-CV
New Description: NASA’s Convective Processes Experiment – Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) is a continuation of the truncated CPEX – Aerosols and Winds (CPEX-AW) field program flown out of St. Croix, USVI between August 17 – September 10, 2021. As in CPEX-AW, CPEX-CV flew the NASA DC-8 medium-altitude aircraft equipped with a suite of remote sensors and dropsonde-launch capability that will allow for the measurement of tropospheric aerosols, winds, temperature, water vapor, and precipitation.

Project: DEVOTE
New Description: The DEVOTE (Development and Evaluation of satellite ValidatiOn Tools by Experimenters) project modified the NASA Langley B-200 aircraft to carry a suite of in situ instruments and then deployed this aircraft along with a remote sensor suite aboard the NASA Langley UC-12 aircraft to study aerosol and cloud optical and microphysical parameters. Coincident measurements were taken over AERONET ground sites and along atmospheric satellite ground tracks to demonstrate the ability to utilize these platforms for future scientific measurement campaigns. Measurements were useful for evaluating advanced data retrieval algorithms using combined lidar and polarimeter data.

Project: DISCOVER-AQ
New Description: The overarching objective of DISCOVER-AQ was to improve the interpretation of satellite observations to diagnose near-surface conditions relating to air quality. To diagnose air quality conditions from space, reliable satellite information on aerosols and ozone precursors is needed for specific, highly correlated times and locations to be used in air quality models and compared to surface- and aircraft-based measurements. DISCOVER-AQ provided an integrated dataset of airborne and surface observations relevant to the diagnosis of surface air quality conditions from space.