ARCPAC
Aerosol, Radiation, and Cloud Processes affecting Arctic Climate
A NOAA Climate Program Project for the International Polar Year 2008
Where: Fairbanks, Alaska
When: late March - April 2008
How: The focus of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Chemical Sciences Division's airborne measurement component of this project will be the NOAA WP-3D platform.
Who: Investigators in this project include researchers from several universities, industries, and governmental agencies. Participating institutions include Georgia Tech, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and NASA Ames Research Center.
clockwise: Arctic polar region map; Arctic haze above Svalbard. On the left (May 2, 2006), orange brown dust is clearly visible. On the right (May 8, 2006), the dust has disappeared. Photo: Juergen Graeser, Alfred-Wegener-Institut; Arctic sea ice; NOAA WP-3D Orion aircraft over the Brooks Range in Alaska (April 12, 2008). Photo: Eric James, NASA ARC.