Climate is hot and humid. Language and cultural barriers may affect operations. The Congo Basin locale is extremely distant from the United States. Sites within this locale are unlikely to have good local access. Local services are likely to be poor.
Climate is hot and humid.
Language and cultural barriers may affect operations. This program is in the planning stages and the exact location is not yet determined, but could be in the Amazon Basin. Initial activities are planned for southeast Asia, but expansion to other tropical locations is possible. The goals of a program entitled Impact of Tropical Biomass Burning on the World Atmosphere are to characterize the fluxes of chemically and radiatively important species from biomass burning into the global atmosphere, and to assess the consequences of biomass burning on the chemical and physical climate. The Beaufort, Bering and Greenland Seas contain the Arctic ice edge during the boreal winter and are characterized by open water covered by a thick blanket of fog and marine stratus during summer.