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Argentinian CACTI Campaign Reveals Storm Life Cycles, Evolution

 

Authors

Nita Patel — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Thomas Argay — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sean Thomas Champenois — Los Alamos National Laboratory
David Chu — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bruno Cesar Cunha — Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso
Timothy James Goering — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Kim L. Nitschke — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Paul Arthur Ortega — Hamelmann Communications
Heath H Powers — Los Alamos National Laboratory
Vagner Melo de Castro — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tercio Silva — Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso
Juarez Viegas — Los Alamos National Laboratory

Category

General topics

Description

Scientists do not fully understand interactions between evolving clouds and their immediate environment, and a lack of observational data leads to incomplete representations of thunderstorm formation, life cycle, and growth processes in earth system models. The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) campaign, managed by Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility, features a mobile atmospheric observatory that will collect comprehensive data about storm-environment interactions in the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range of sub-tropical Argentina, October 2018-April 2019. The CACTI objective will improve understanding of cloud growth, organization, and decay in relation to environmental conditions to improve representation of these clouds and their environmental effects in numerical models. This poster will present highlights from the CACTI installation and recent data acquisition.