NAMMA Aircraft Flights from Cape Verde

  • Released Monday, April 23, 2007
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The NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (NAMMA) campaign was a field research campaign to study African Easterly waves off the western coast of Africa. A DC-8 aircraft was flown out of the island of Sal, Cape Verde, in August and September 2006, and was outfitted with atmospheric sensors that measured data in this region that could be compared with satellite, balloon, and ground-based sensors to build up a comprehensive picture of the atmosphere in this region. This region is important in that it is one of the primary regions of tropical cyclogenesis, where Atlantic hurricanes form. This animation shows all the flight paths of the DC-8 during this campaign along with the corresponding cloud and satellite data from satellites.

An animation of the NAMMA mission aircraft flights out of Sal, Cape Verde with satellite flight tracks indicated.

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Additional Credits: NCEP Cloud Composite courtesy of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

This page was originally published on Monday, April 23, 2007.
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