International_Cloud_Experiment Knowpia

International Cloud Experiment (formally known as "Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment" - TWP-ICE) was a scientific mission to gather information on tropical storm formation.^[1] It involved seven airplanes, a ship anchored off Darwin in Australia, RV Southern Surveyor, and over 250 scientists and researchers.^[2]

The I.C.E. took place from 21 January to 23 February 2006,^[3] and had been in the planning stages since September 2003.^[4]

The experiment was a collaboration between the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program,^[5] the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia),^[6] NASA^[7] the European Commission DG RTD-1.2 and several United States, Australian, Canadian and European Universities.^[8]

During the experiment, a record-breaking tropical typhoon arose, then spent seven days as a "landphoon" over the Australian desert.^[9]

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation released in 2007 Thunderheads, a 47-minute program which has shown on the Smithsonian Channel.

References edit

^ U.S. Climate Scientists Join Collaborators in Australia to Begin Tropical Cloud Experiment
^ Thunderheads Program Guide at ABC/Nature.
^ Campaign : Tropical Warm Pool - International Cloud Experiment at ARM
^ TWP-ICE Timeline Archived 20 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine at ARM
^ TWP-ICE Science Plan Archived 20 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine - Cloud and rain characteristics in the Australian Monsoon
^ TWP-ICE at the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre Archived 17 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine (now part of CAWCR: The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research)
^ TWP-ICE at NASA GCSS - Cirrus Cloud Working Group and Deep Convective Working Group
^ TWP-ICE Executive Summary Archived 19 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ TWP-ICE Synoptic Overview, 1 February 2006 Archived 19 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine