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ACTIVATE-Satellite is the GOES-16 satellite data supporting the ACTIVATE suborbital campaign.
ACTIVATE was a 5-year NASA Earth-Venture Sub-Orbital (EVS-3) field campaign. Marine boundary layer clouds play a critical role in Earth’s energy balance and water cycle. These clouds cover more than 45% of the ocean surface and exert a net cooling effect. The Aerosol Cloud meTeorology Interactions oVer the western Atlantic Experiment (ACTIVATE) project was a five-year project that provides important globally-relevant data about changes in marine boundary layer cloud systems, atmospheric aerosols and multiple feedbacks that warm or cool the climate. ACTIVATE studied the atmosphere over the western North Atlantic and sampled its broad range of aerosol, cloud and meteorological conditions using two aircraft, the UC-12 King Air and HU-25 Falcon. The UC-12 King Air was primarily used for remote sensing measurements while the HU-25 Falcon will contain a comprehensive instrument payload for detailed in-situ measurements of aerosol, cloud properties, and atmospheric state. A few trace gas measurements were also onboard the HU-25 Falcon for the measurements of pollution traces, which will contribute to airmass classification analysis. A total of 150 coordinated flights over the western North Atlantic occurred through 6 deployments from 2020-2022. The ACTIVATE science observing strategy intensively targets the shallow cumulus cloud regime and aims to collect sufficient statistics over a broad range of aerosol and weather conditions which enables robust characterization of aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions. This strategy was implemented by two nominal flight patterns: Statistical Survey and Process Study. The statistical survey pattern involves close coordination between the remote sensing and in-situ aircraft to conduct near coincident sampling at and below cloud base as well as above and within cloud top. The process study pattern involves extensive vertical profiling to characterize the target cloud and surrounding aerosol and meteorological conditions.

Product Summary

Platforms
GOES-16
Instruments
ABI
Location
ATLANTIC OCEAN ,
NORTH AMERICA ,
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ,
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2020-02-14 to 2022-10-31
Data Partner
Atmospheric Science Data Center, Science Directorate, Langley Research Center, NASA (NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC)
Concept ID
C2647017088-LARC_ASDC
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1374
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Cloud Base Height ,
Cloud Height ,
Cloud Base Pressure ,
Cloud Top Pressure ,
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice ,
Cloud Top Height ,
Cloud Top Temperature ,
Cloud Base Temperature ,
Ice Water Path

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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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ACTIVATE Science Team. (2023). ACTIVATE GOES-16 Supplementary Data [Data set]. NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/ASDC/SUBORBITAL/ACTIVATE-SATELLITE_1 Date Accessed: 2026-05-01

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Measurement report: A survey of meteorological and cloud properties during ACTIVATE's postfrontal flights and their suitability for Lagrangian case studies Tornow, Florian, Fridlind, Ann, Tselioudis, George, Cairns, Brian, Ackerman, Andrew, Chellappan, Seethala, Painemal, David, Zuidema, Paquita, Voigt, Christiane, Kirschler, Simon, Sorooshian, Armin Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Particle Size Distribution, Clouds, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Droplet Distribution, Cloud Microphysics, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Aerosols, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Backscatter, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Forward Scatter, Cloud Top Height, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Lidar Backscatter, Lidar Depolarization Ratio, AEROSOL SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO, Cloud Base Height, Cloud Height, Cloud Base Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Height, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Base Temperature, Ice Water Path
High Spectral Resolution Lidargeneration 2 (HSRL-2) retrievals of ocean surface wind speed: methodology and evaluation Dmitrovic, Sanja, Hair, Johnathan W., Collister, Brian L., Crosbie, Ewan, Fenn, Marta A., Ferrare, Richard A., Harper, David B., Hostetler, Chris A., Hu, Yongxiang, Reagan, John A., Robinson, Claire E., Seaman, Shane T., Shingler, Taylor J., Thornhill, Kenneth L., Vomel, Holger, Zeng, Xubin, Sorooshian, Armin Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Cloud Base Height, Cloud Height, Cloud Base Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Top Height, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Base Temperature, Ice Water Path
Spatially coordinated airborne data and complementary products for Sorooshian, Armin, Alexandrov, Mikhail D., Bell, Adam D., Bennett, Ryan, Betito, Grace, Burton, Sharon P., Buzanowicz, Megan E., Cairns, Brian, Chemyakin, Eduard V., Chen, Gao, Choi, Yonghoon, Collister, Brian L., Cook, Anthony L., Corral, Andrea F., Crosbie, Ewan C., van Diedenhoven, Bastiaan, DiGangi, Joshua P., Diskin, Glenn S., Dmitrovic, Sanja, Edwards, Eva-Lou, Fenn, Marta A., Ferrare, Richard A., van Gilst, David, Hair, Johnathan W., Harper, David B., Hilario, Miguel Ricardo A., Hostetler, Chris A., Jester, Nathan, Jones, Michael, Kirschler, Simon, Kleb, Mary M., Kusterer, John M., Leavor, Sean, Lee, Joseph W., Liu, Hongyu, McCauley, Kayla, Moore, Richard H., Nied, Joseph, Notari, Anthony, Nowak, John B., Painemal, David, Phillips, Kasey E., Robinson, Claire E., Scarino, Amy Jo, Schlosser, Joseph S., Seaman, Shane T., Seethala, Chellappan, Shingler, Taylor J., Shook, Michael A., Sinclair, Kenneth A., Smith Jr., William L., Spangenberg, Douglas A., Stamnes, Snorre A., Thornhill, Kenneth L., Voigt, Christiane, Vomel, Holger, Wasilewski, Andrzej P., Wang, Hailong, Winstead, Edward L., Zeider, Kira, Zeng, Xubin, Zhang, Bo, Ziemba, Luke D., Zuidema, Paquita Atmospheric Winds, Upper Level Winds, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Water Vapor Indicators, Water Vapor, Wind Speed, Wind Direction, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure, Horizontal Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Cloud Base Height, Cloud Height, Cloud Base Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Top Height, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Base Temperature, Ice Water Path, Aerosols, Clouds, Cloud Droplet Distribution, Upper Level Winds, Tropospheric Ozone, Atmospheric Ozone, CARBON MONOXIDE PROFILES, Methane, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Temperature, Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Size Distribution, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Albedo, Relative Humidity, Cloud Amount, APPARENT SURFACE REFLECTIVITY, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfate Particles, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Specific Humidity, Black Carbon, Organic Particles, Carbonaceous Aerosols
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