First MAGIC Workshop Discusses Future of Marine Clouds

Published: 12 August 2014

Following the wrap up of the Marine ARM GPCI Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, a workshop was held to provide an overview of existing and planned data analysis from the campaign. In May, the First MAGIC Science Workshop, held at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was attended by 40 scientific experts. Their objectives were to discuss the status of data analysis, present preliminary results from the campaign, make future plans, decide what areas require further attention in order to move forward with model intercomparisons and other analyses, and establish networking and collaborative possibilities.

Workshop at a Glance

Chris Bretherton, University of Washington, opened the workshop with a keynote address on “The Science of the Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition.” The workshop then explored the following topics over the next three days:

Day 1: MAGIC observations and data, during which presentations provided introduction, context, availability, and issues/concerns for MAGIC data sets

Day 2: MAGIC science, during which presentations were made on science questions that have been, can be, or will be addressed with MAGIC data

Day 3: future directions of MAGIC.

“There are numerous items from the workshop that we are following up on, including notes of discussions, a drawing showing the layout of instruments on the ship, and revised instrument status tables,” said the principal investigator, Ernie Lewis.

Read more details about the MAGIC campaign on the Fields Notes blog.