NASA airborne expedition chases climate, ozone questions

Contact: Tabatha Thompson
tabatha.thompson-1@nasa.gov
202-358-3895
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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WASHINGTON -- NASA's Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling (TC4) field campaign will begin this summer in San Jose, Costa Rica, with an investigation into how chemical compounds in the air are transported vertically into the stratosphere and how that transport affects cloud formation and climate.

The study will begin the week of July 16 with coordinated observations from satellites, high-flying NASA research aircraft, balloons and ground-based radar. The targets of these measurements are the gases, aerosols and ice crystals that flow from the top of the strong storm systems that form over the warm tropical ocean. These storm systems pump air more than 40,000 feet above Earth’s surface, where it can influence the composition of the stratosphere, home of our planet’s protective ozone layer.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/nsfc-nae062707.php


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