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*Lead PIs: Julia Windmiller, Bjorn Stevens, Lutz Hirsch (MPI-M), Felix Ament, Ann-Kristin Naumann (UHH), Susanne Crewell, Claudia Acquistapace, Sabrina Schnitt (U Cologne), Bernhard Mayer (LMU), Manfred Wendisch, André Ehrlich (U Leipzig), Silke Gross (DLR),*

PERCUSION is a German initiative that uses the German research aircraft [HALO](https://halo-research.de) and ESA's [EarthCARE](https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/earthcare) satellite aiming to test factors hypothesized to influence the organization of deep maritime convection in the tropics, and the influence of convective organization on its larger-scale environment.
PERCUSION will extend the NARVAL missions and EUREC4A cases to missing convective (and aerosol) regimes and contribute to a broader view of cloud-circulation coupling over the tropical oceans. PERCUSION will add a new dimension to the previous measurements through it’s

Focus on deep convection close to and at the Intertropical Convergence Zone. This will complement the EUREC4A measurements, which have focused on the winter downstream trade-wind regimes and provide a more comprehensive picture of the tropical circulation.
Studying the impact of different aerosol regimes. HALO will operate three weeks in the western (42W-60W) tropical Atlantic flying out of Barbados, and three weeks in the eastern (25W-43W) flying out of Cape Verde, respectively. This will contrast clouds and circulation in relatively particulate-free air, or in aged dust layers, in the west, with air masses with large (Saharan) dust burdens in the east.
PERCUSION will extend the NARVAL missions and EUREC4A cases to missing convective (and aerosol) regimes and contribute to a broader view of cloud-circulation coupling over the tropical oceans. PERCUSION will add a new dimension to the previous measurements through it’s focus on deep convection close to and at the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). This will complement the EUREC4A measurements, which have focused on the winter downstream trade-wind regimes and provide a more comprehensive picture of the tropical circulation.
Moreover, the impact of different aerosol regimes are studie are studiedd. HALO will operate three weeks in the western (42W-60W) tropical Atlantic flying out of Barbados, and three weeks in the eastern (25W-43W) flying out of Cape Verde, respectively. This will contrast clouds and circulation in relatively particulate-free air, or in aged dust layers, in the west, with air masses with large (Saharan) dust burdens in the east.
Towards a global coverage by locally validating EarthCARE. The upcoming EarthCARE satellite will become a spaceborne cloud observatory and will enable us to extend local studies to globa al scale. To establish confidence in EarthCARE products and inform their most intelligent use, we will intensively use HALO underflights for validation purposes.
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[SEA-POL](https://seapol.colostate.edu) is the Colorado State University Sea-Going Polarimetric Radar, a National Science Foundation (NSF) community facility. SEA-POL is a 5.65 GHz ship-stabilized Doppler radar that operates at C-band to measure dual-polarization.

As of December 2023, PICCOLO was recommended for funding by NSF.
PICCOLO is funded by the US National Science Foundation.

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**Sub-Cloud Observations of Rain Evaporation**

*Lead PI: Raphaela Vogel (UHH)*

SCORE is the initiative targeting observations of sub-cloud layer rain evaporation at the Barbados Cloud Observatory (BCO).
It has four objectives:
- Assess the robustness of new techniques to retrieve rain evaporation and downdraft profiles from shallow cumulus that will be applied to the entire BCO record as part of the ERC project ROTOЯ
- Test the applicability of the retrieval techniques for deep convective clouds
- Quantitatively constrain how much it rains at the BCO
- Link the campaign data to the longterm measurements at the BCO

SCORE will achieve these objectives by complementing the large suite of remote-sensing and in-situ measurements at the BCO with (1) a horizontally scanning X-band rain radar to be deployed at the former PoldiRad site and (2) radiosonde launches at 6-hourly intervals and targeting specific rain systems.

SCORE is funded by the CLICCS excellence cluster (UHH), MPI and ERC.

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