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The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC), Barbados, Jan 17 - Feb 12, 2020

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: July 28, 2026 at 11:26 PM | Dataset Last Updated: April 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM
The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) was a field campaign held January-February 2020 in the tropical North Atlantic east of Barbados. The campaign, the U.S. complement to the European field campaign called EUREC4A, was aimed at better understanding cloud and air-sea interaction processes. ATOMIC included in measurements from a NOAA WP-3D Orion "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft, the research ship Ronald H. Brown, and unpiloted vehicles launched from Barbados and from the Ronald H. Brown.

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temporal 2020-01-05T00:00:00+00:00/2020-04-29T00:00:00+00:00
title The Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC), Barbados, Jan 17 - Feb 12, 2020

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