Three Early Tropical Field Experiments

Garstang, Michael ; Zipser, Edward ; Ellingson, Robert ; Warsh, Kenneth ; Grose, Peter ; Ulanski, Stanley ; Holle, Ronald ; Seguin, Ward ; Fitzjarrald, David ; Greco, Steven ; Emmitt, George D.

Année de publication
2019

Fifty years ago the Line Islands Experiment was launched to obtain in situ surface, soundings, and aircraft observations in a convectively active region of the tropical oceans close to the nadir point of the new geosynchronous meteorological satellite. Two related tropical field experiments, in 1968 and 1969, followed in the vicinity of Barbados in the western Atlantic. Component parts of these three field experiments are recalled in this presentation that resonated over the subsequent half century.</p>

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