Comprehensive in situ and remote sensing observations of deep convective clouds using the new German research jet aircraft HALO have been performed over Amazonia to study the influence of anthropogenic aerosols on the cloud life cycle and precipitation formation processes. © 2016 American Meteorological Society.
The Amazon Basin provides an excellent environment for studying the sources, transformations, and properties of natural aerosol particles and the resulting links between biological processes and climate. With this framework in mind, the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment (AMAZE-08), carried out from 7 February to 14 March 2008 during the wet season in the central Amazon Basin, sought to understand th...