The NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis – or NAMMA – field campaign was conducted during the late summer and early fall in 2006 from the Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa.
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The NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis – or NAMMA – field campaign was conducted during the late summer and early fall in 2006 from the Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Laboratory was a major contributor to the NAMMA research missions, probing easterly atmospheric waves over the Atlantic Ocean off the African continent during numerous flights from Amilcar Cabral International Airport on Sal Island in the Cape Verdes. These easterly waves are storm systems that occasionally develop into tropical cyclones, and the main purpose of NAMMA was to find out the differences between the developing and non-developing waves.August 26, 2006
NASA Photo / Bill Moede (Ames)