Thursday, January 10, 2013

Chasing Climate Change Clues Into the Stratosphere


Chasing Climate Change Clues Into the Stratosphere

ATTREX will perform a series of campaigns using NASA’s long-range Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system to study cloud formations in the tropical tropopause. Shown above is a photo of cloud formations taken in 2010 as the Global Hawk flew over the North Pacific Ocean.

Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how a warming climate is changing Earth.

The first flights of the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) is a multi-year airborne science campaign with a heavily instrumented Global Hawk aircraft.
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