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NAMMA Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment (LASE)

Entry ID: namlase

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Summary

Abstract: The NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA) campaign is a field research investigation sponsored by the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This mission was based in the Cape Verde Islands, 350 miles off the coast of Senegal in west Africa. Commencing in August 2006, NASA scientists employed surface observation networks and ...

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 30.0

S: -5.0

E: 10.0

W: -50.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2006-08-15

Stop Date: 2006-09-12

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CAPE VERDE

CONTINENT > AFRICA

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL BACKSCATTER

ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL EXTINCTION

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

NASA DC-8 > NASA Douglas DC-8

Instrument

DIAL > Differential Absorption Lidar

LASE > Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment

Project

EOSDIS > Earth Observing System Data Information System

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

NAMMA > NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses Campaign

CWIC > CEOS WGISS Integrated Catalog

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Use Constraints none

Ancillary Keywords

EOSDIS

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Global Hydrology Resource Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA

Data Center URL: http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/
Dataset ID: namlase

Data Center Personnel
Name: SHERRY HARRISON Phone: 256-961-7973 Email: ghrcdaac at itsc.uah.edu Contact Address: 320 Sparkman Dr. City: Huntsville Province or State: AL Postal Code: 35805 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: FTP

Distribution Size: 131.97 Gb

Distribution Format: ASCII

Fees: none

Personnel

EDWARD V. BROWELL

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Phone: 757-864-1273

Fax: 757-864-7790

Email: e.v.browell at larc.nasa.gov

Contact Address:

NASA Langley Research Center

MS 401A

21 Langley Boulevard

City: Hampton

Province or State: VA

Postal Code: 23681-2199

Country: USA

SYED ISMAIL

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Email: Syed.Ismail-1 at nasa.gov

Contact Address:

NASA Langley Research Center

City: Hampton

Province or State: VA

Postal Code: 23681

Country: USA

SHERRY HARRISON

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: 256-961-7973

Email: ghrcdaac at itsc.uah.edu

Contact Address:

320 Sparkman Dr.

City: Huntsville

Province or State: AL

Postal Code: 35805

Country: USA

Publications/References

Noormets, R., Dowdeswell, J.A., Larter, R.D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, J. 2009. Morphology of the upper continental slope in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas -implications for sedimentary processes at the shelf edge of West Antarctica., Marine Geology. 258, 100-114 Dowdeswell, J.A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R., Larter, R.D., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Benetti, S., Evans, J., Pudsey, C.J. ... 2008. A major trough mouth fan on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea West Anarctica: the Belgica Fan., Marine Geology. 252,129-140. Hillenbrand, C.-D.,Moreton, S.G., Caburlotto, A., Pudsey, C.J., Lucchi, R.G., Smellie, J.L., Benetti, S., Grobe, H., Hunt, J., Larter, R. 2008. Volcanic time-markers for marine isotopic stages 6 and 5 in Southern Ocean sediments and Antarctic ice cores:implication for tephra correlations between palaeoclimatic records., Quaternary Science Reviews. 27, 518-540. Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J.A., Evans, J., Larter, R
.D. 2008. Geological constraints on Antarctic palaeoice-stream retreat., Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 33, 513-525 Ó Cofaigh C., Evans J., Dowdeswell J. A., and Larter R. D. 2007. Till characteristics, genesis and transport beneath Antarctic paleo-ice streams., Journal of Geophysical Research. 112, No. F3, F03006. doi:10.1029/2006JF000606. Benetti, S., Hillenbrand, C., Larter, R.D. & Dowdeswell, J.A. 2006. Variability in glaciomarine sedimentary processes on a West Antarctic trough mouth fan. Eos, Transactions, AGU, 87(52), Fall Meeting Supplement. Hernandez-Molina, F.J., Larter, R.D., Rebesco, M. & Maldonado, A. 2006. Miocene reversal of bottom water flow along the Pacific Margin of the Antarctic Peninsula: Stratigraphic evidence from a contourite sedimentary tail. Marine Geology. 228, 93-116 Hillenbrand, C.-D., Baesler, A. & Grobe, H. 2005. The sedimentary record of the last glaciation in the western Bellingshausen Sea (West Antarctica
): Implications for the interpretation of diamictons in a polar-marin
e setting. Marine Geology, 216, 191-204. Ó Cofaigh, C., Larter, R.D., Dowdeswell, J.A., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Pudsey, C.J., Evans, J. & Morris, P. 2005. Flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea at the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B11, doi: 10.1029/2005JB003619. Thatje, S., Hillenbrand, C.-D. & Larter, R.D. 2005. On the origin of Antarctic marine benthic community structure, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 20, No. 10, 534-540. Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, J., Dowdeswell, J.A., Larter, R.D. & Pudsey, C.J. 2005. Till generation and transport beneath Antarctic palaeo-ice streams: a marine geophysical perspective. International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products. Larter, R.D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Dowdeswell, J.A., Pudsey, C.J., Evans, J. & Morris, P. 2005. New data from the southern Bellingshausen Sea reveal a major
lost drainage basin of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Volume 7. Hillenbrand, C.-D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Larter, R., Dowdeswell, J., Pudsey, C., Ehrmann, W. & Grobe, H. 2005. Glacial and glaciomarine environments in the southern Bellingshausen Sea since the last glacial maximum - a reconstruction based on the sedimentary record. International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products. Larter, R.D., Dowdeswell, J.A., Pudsey, C.J., Evans, J., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Morris, P. & O'' Cofaigh, C. 2004. Investigations of a major palaeo-outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the southern Bellingshausen Sea: preliminary results from RRS James Clark Ross Cruise JR104. Terra Nostra, Schriften der Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung, 2004/4. Larter, R.D., Dowdeswell, J.A., Pudsey, C.J., Evans, J., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Morris, P. & O'' Cofaigh, C. 2004. Investigations of a major palaeo-outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the so
uthern Bellingshausen Sea: preliminary results from RRS James Clark R
oss Cruise JR104. Antarctic Funding Initiative [AFI] Third Workshop. O'' Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J.A., Larter, R.D., Pudsey, C.J., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Evans, J. & Morris, P., 2004. Late Quaternary ice-sheet dynamics in the southern Bellingshuasen Sea as reconstructed from marine geophysical evidence. Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: History, Causes and Impacts - Abstracts. Hillenbrand, C.-D., Larter, R.D., Pudsey, C.J., Dowdeswell, J.A., O'' Cofaigh, C., Evans, J. & Morris, P. 2004. Glacial and glaciomarine sedimentary successions from the southern Bellingshausen Sea: archives for environmental changes in the Antarctic peninsula region since the last glacial period. Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: History, Causes and Impacts - Abstracts. Ó Cofaigh C., Pudsey C. J., Dowdeswell J. A., and Morris P. 2002, Evolution of subglacial bedforms along a paleo-ice stream, Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf. Geophysical Research Letters. 29 (8).
doi:10.1029/2001GL014488. Ó Cofaigh C., Dowdeswell J. A., and Pudsey C. J. 2001. Late Quaternary iceberg-rafting along the Antarctic Peninsula continental rise and in the Weddell and Scotia seas. Quaternary Research , 56, , 308-321.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2007-08-10

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-04-27

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