EO Newsroom: SAFARI2000 Campaign

A Southern African Regional Science Initiative

Note: SAFARI is now underway! Please check for daily updates as they are made available.

SAFARI 2000 is an international regional science initiative being developed for Southern Africa to explore, study and address linkages between land-atmosphere processes and the relationship of biogenic, pyrogenic or anthropogenic emissions and the consequences of their deposition to the functioning of the biogeophysical and biogeochemical systems of southern Africa.

Contacts: factory emissions

Bob Swap, U.S. Coordinator, University of Virginia, (804) 924-7714, swapper@virginia.edu

Dr. John T. Suttles ("Tim"), NASA Coordinator, Raytheon ITSS Corp., (301) 441-4028, tim.suttles@gsfc.nasa.gov

Science Goals:

To characterize and quantify the biogenic, pyrogenic and anthropogenic aerosol and trace gas sources and sinks in southern Africa.
To validate these observations using atmospheric transport and chemistry models, ground-based, airborne and satellite-based observations.
To determine the climate and ecosystem consequences of the production and emission of these aerosols and trace gases.

Infrastructure: Aircraft will include the NASA ER-2, University of Washington's CV-580, two south-african weather bureau 690A Commanders, and the possibility of NASA Langley's Proteus; A network of AERONET sunphotometer sites will be placed throughout Southern Africa; Remote sensing data analysis will be performed using NASA's Landsat and Terra imagery.

Measurement Dates: SAFARI 2000 will be conducted over a three-year period starting in 1999 with field campaigns during 1999 and 2000.

Focus Location(s): Savannah region of Southern Africa.

SAFARI 2000 Home Page

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