ORCESTRA overview#
Organized Convection and EarthCare Studies over the Tropical Atlantic
The overarching objective of ORCESTRA is to better understand the physical mechanisms that organize tropical convection at the mesoscale, including the interaction of convective organization with tropical waves and air-sea interaction, and the impact of convective organization on climate and the Earth’s radiation budget and processes of tropical cyclogenesis. In addition to advancing understanding of tropical meteorology and atmospheric processes, ORCESTRA observations will to help calibrate and validate satellite remote sensing (especially EarthCARE) and a new generation of global ocean-eddy and storm-resolving climate models.
Sub-campaigns in ORCESTRA#
ORCESTRA unites several sub-campaigns under its roof. The detailed scientific objectives of the sub-campaigns can be found on subpages respectively.
From 10 Aug to 24 Sep across the Atlantic Ocean
From 10 Aug to 10 Sep in Cape Verde
In Aug and Sep in Mindelo, Cape Verde
From 6 Aug to 13 Sep on Sal, Cape Verde
From 8 Aug to 4 Sep on Sal, Cape Verde and from 5 to 30 Sep on Barbados
From 10 Aug to 24 Sep across the Atlantic Ocean
In Aug and Sep on Barbados
From 10 Aug to 24 Sep across the Atlantic Ocean