ORACLES Forecast Support

ORACLES mission patch The ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) is a five year investigation with three Intensive Observation Periods (IOP) designed to study key processes that determine the climate impacts of African biomass burning aerosols. It will provide multi-year airborne observations over the complete vertical column of the key parameters that drive aerosol-cloud interactions in the SE Atlantic, an area with some of the largest inter-model differences in aerosol forcing assessments on the planet. Instruments will be flown on NASA ER-2 and P-3 aircraft.

GMAO will provide GEOS-5 forecast support to aid in aircraft mission planning for ORACLES. ORACLES is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital project, with month-long deployments scheduled for the Fall of 2016, 2017 and 2018, with a dry-run exercise to be performed in September 2015.

Supporting Forecasts and Data

IMPORTANT: Please note that these predictions are experimental and are produced for research purposes only. Use of these forecasts for purposes other than research is not recommended.