VOCALS: VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study
The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study - Regional Experiment
(VOCALS-REx) is an international field experiment designed to better
understand physical and chemical processes central to the climate
system of the Southeast Pacific (SEP) region. The climate of the SEP
region is a tightly coupled system involving poorly
understood interactions between the ocean, the atmosphere, and the
land. VOCALS-REx will focus on interactions between clouds, aerosols,
marine boundary layer (MBL) processes, upper ocean dynamics and
thermodynamics, coastal currents and upwelling, large-scale subsidence,
and regional diurnal circulations, to the west of the Andes mountain
range. The field experiment is ultimately driven by a need for improved
model simulations of the coupled climate system in both the SEP and
over the wider tropics and subtropics
