Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate - EUREC4A
Mission Time Period: January - February 2020, Mission completed
Further Information: http://eurec4a.eu/
Principle Investigators
- Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg
- Felix Ament, Universität Hamburg, Meteorological Institute (MI)
Partner Institutions
- Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen
- Max PIanck Institute for Chemistry (MPI-C), Mainz
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
- University of Cologne, Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology
- Universität Hamburg, Meteorological Institute (MI)
- University of Hohenheim, Hohenheim
- Leipzig University, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology (LIM)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Meteorological Institute Munich (MIM)
- German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (DLR-IPA), Oberpfaffenhofen
- Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Kiel
- Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG), Geesthacht
- Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), Leipzig
Project Description
EUREC4A is an almost six-week field study starting on 20 January 2020 aiming at validating theories on the role of clouds and convection for climate change through extensive measurements in the atmosphere and ocean. In addition, EUREC4A will study how fine-scale features in the ocean – eddies and fronts – interact with the atmosphere. The scale and coverage of the measurements will provide opportunities to evaluate a new generation of climate models and satellite data products.
The French-German initiated field study involves more than 40 partner institutions and the deployment of five research aircrafts, four research vessels, ground based remote sensing and satellite remote sensing east and south of the Caribbean island of Barbados. EUREC4A is led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, Director and head of the department “The Atmosphere in the Earth System”at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), and Dr Sandrine Bony, Director of Research at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France. Their initiative builds on, and extends, a decade of cooperation with Barbadian scientists at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), under the leadership of its Principal, Dr David Farrell.
Press release from 16 January 2020:
