This Met Office FAAM BAe-146 aircraft campaign sought to gather a diverse set of observations of different cloud types over land and ocean to trial a new 1D-Var code and develop techniques to allow the assimilation of cloud-affected radiances in the Met Office Unified Model for NWP.

Equipment: Core Consoles, Core Chemistry, Cloud Physics (FFSSP,2D-P,2D-C,PCASP,SID1,SID2,CIP), AVAPS, FWVS/CCN, INC, CPI, Nephelometer/PSAP, Wet-Nephelometer, SWS/SHIMS, Radiometeters 1&2 (ARIES,DEIMOS,MARSS,IRR), Lidar