ACTIVATE GOES-16 Satellite Data for Marine Cloud Study

GOES-16 satellite data supports the ACTIVATE airborne campaign studying marine boundary layer clouds over the western North Atlantic. The ACTIVATE project was a 5-year NASA Earth-Venture Sub-Orbital campaign that conducted 150 coordinated flights from 2020 to 2022. Data collection involved two aircraft for remote sensing and in-situ measurements of aerosols, cloud properties, and atmospheric state.

Use Cases

• Analyze aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions based on coordinated aircraft and satellite sampling.
• Characterize marine boundary layer cloud systems based on remote sensing and in-situ measurements.
• Classify airmass types based on trace gas measurements for pollution analysis.
• Study the cooling effect of marine clouds based on data covering more than 45% of the ocean surface.

Strengths

• Data collection involved 150 coordinated flights over three years.
• Campaign targeted a broad range of aerosol and weather conditions for robust statistics.
• Project was a 5-year NASA Earth-Venture Sub-Orbital (EVS-3) field campaign.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Data gathered via satellite (GOES-16) and coordinated airborne campaigns using two aircraft.

Time Range

2020-2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 06:52:47.878663; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Western North Atlantic Ocean