MAGIC: the first phase

 
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Authors

Ernie R. Lewis — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Bruce A. Albrecht — University of Miami
Geoffrey L Bland — NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center - Wallops Flight Facility
Charles Noel Flagg — School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Stephen Klein — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Pavlos Kollias — Stony Brook University
Gerald Mace — University of Utah
R. Michael Reynolds — Remote Measurements & Research Company (RMR Co.)
Stephen E. Schwartz — Brookhaven National Laboratory
A. Pier Siebesma — Royal Netherlands Delft University of Technology
Joao Teixeira — NASA
Warren J. Wiscombe — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Robert Wood — University of Washington
Minghua Zhang — Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences

Category

Field Campaigns

Description

The Marine ARM GPCI Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign involves the deployment of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) on the Horizon Lines cargo ship Spirit making regular transects between Los Angeles and Honolulu through a region where the dominant cloud regime makes a transition from stratocumulus to trade-wind cumulus. MAGIC commenced taking measurements October 1, 2012, and continued until February 2013, when all ARM equipment had to be off the ship before the Spirit went into dry dock for normal maintenance. During these several months properties of clouds, aerosols, and radiation and meteorological parameters were routinely sampled. Additionally, an intensive operational period (IOP) occurred in January 2013 in which radiosonde launches occurred every three hours for one round trip. The measurements made to date will be discussed, and some results will be highlighted.