Two Research Aircraft Head To Namibia Because Of Its Unique Climate

NASA scientists and two research aircraft are on their way to a unique natural laboratory off the Atlantic coast of southwest Africa to study a major unknown in future climate prediction.

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"This is the perfect natural laboratory to study aerosol-cloud interactions, which are some of the largest uncertainties in the prediction of future climate." Source: Jens Redemann, ORACLES principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, discussing what NASA scientists and two research aircraft are doing while on their way to a unique natural laboratory off the Atlantic coast of southwest Africa to study a major unknown in future climate prediction.