A high-altitude long-range aircraft configured as a cloud observatory – the 
NARVAL expeditions

Stevens, Bjorn; Ament, F.; Bony, S.; Crewell, S.; Ewald, F.; Gross, S.; Hansen, A.; Hirsch, Lutz; Jacob, M.; Kölling, T.; Konow, H.; Mayer, B.; Wendisch, M.; Wirth, M.; Wolf, K.; Bakan, Stephan; Bauer-Pfundstein, M.; Brueck, Matthias; Delanoë, J.; Ehrlich, A.; Farrell, D.; Forde, M.; Gödde, F.; Grob, H.; Hagen, M.; Jäkel, E.; Jansen, Friedhelm; Klepp, C.; Klingebiel, Marcus; Mech, M.; Peters, G.; Rapp, M.; Wing, A.A.; Zinner, T.

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0198.1

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A high-altitude long-range aircraft configured as a cloud observatory – the NARVAL expeditions

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Stevens, Bjorn
Director’s Research Group AES, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

Ament, F.
MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Hirsch, Lutz
Tropical Cloud Observations, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Bakan, Stephan
Terrestrial Remote Sensing / HOAPS, The Land in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Brueck, Matthias
Precipitating Convection, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Jansen, Friedhelm
Tropical Cloud Observations, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Klingebiel, Marcus
Tropical Cloud Observations, The Atmosphere in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Stevens, B., Ament, F., Bony, S., Crewell, S., Ewald, F., Gross, S., et al. (2019). A high-altitude long-range aircraft configured as a cloud observatory – the NARVAL expeditions. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100, 1061-1077. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0198.1.

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Using dropsondes and advanced remote sensing instrumentation to configure the German High-Altitude LOng range research aircraft (HALO) is configured for use as an airborne cloud observatory.

A configuration of HALO (the High-Altitude LOng-range research aircraft) as a remote sensing cloud observatory is described and its use is illustrated with results from the first and second NARVAL (Next-generation Aircraft Remote-sensing for VALidation) field studies. Measurements from NARVAL2 are used to highlight the ability of HALO, when configured in this fashion, to characterize not only the distribution of water condensate in the atmosphere, but also its impact on radiant energy transfer and the co-varying large-scale meteorological conditions – including the large-scale velocity field, and its vertical component. The NARVAL campaigns with HALO demonstrate the potential of airborne cloud observatories to address long-standing riddles in studies of the coupling between clouds and circulation, and are helping to motivate a new generation of field studies.