This project is synergistic with a major European experiment at the Mace Head Observatory to investigate the sources of marine organic aerosol and their impact on marine stratocumulus clouds.
Instrument Test Flying - 15 flying hours

ISMAR -International Sub-Millimetre Airborne Radiometer
MarVal - Met Office Defence flying off south coast
FGGA - Fast Greenhouse Gas Analyser
FENNEC ( including ALABAMA - Aircraft-Based Laser Ablation Aerosol Mass Spectrometer)
MACLOUD Inc Scientific Objectives:

Two ground based experiments are to be run in December 2010 and May 2011 to contrast the biologically active summer with the quiescent wintertime. The aircraft experiments will provide detailed in situ cloud and aerosol data to compare with the ground based aerosol data and the remotely sensed cloud properties as measured by radar and lidar at Mace Head. Specific objectives include:

to source apportion marine aerosol
quantify formation and evolution characteristics
quantify hygroscopic and CCN properties
quantification of marine aerosol impacts on cloud microphysics.