The Earth and Space Institute (ESI) will participate in the NASA INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE) field campaign in summer 2026.
ESI’s modular four-instrument AirHARP2 Suite will fly on NASA’s high altitude ER-2 from July 27 to September 5 over the western US and Canada. The goal of the campaign is to chase pyrocumulonimbus clouds – thunderstorms driven by wildfire smoke – and study how and why they grow over certain fires, how and why they differ from typical thunderstorms, and their climate impacts.
During the campaign, ESI scientists, engineers, and UMBC students will be following the flights in real time in our Mission Operations Center (Physics 333) – feel free to stop by!
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The group reflected on lessons learned while looking to the horizon.
ESI leads the calibration of the AirHARP2 suite at NASA GSFC.
Global HARP2 polarization data from April 19th 2024.
Cloud properties are inferred from HARP2 data on 11 March 2024!
Fine mode particles over Caribbean (capture on 21st-March 2024)
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Posted: July 2, 2025, 5:46 PM
