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after nearly a decade of planning

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this field campaign happened to be here

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just as an unusually dry season led to

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some of the most intense and large fires

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the region had experienced in the last

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five years

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we came here to look at

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the transport of smoke and what smoke

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does

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in the environment particularly as it

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impacts clouds and we had

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an amazingly intense

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smoke event that carried very high

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concentrations of smoke into a place

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called the sulu sea

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you might be surprised to learn that

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fires affect cloud formation and nasa is

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studying that dynamic relationship

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nasa is a big and capable organization

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but earth science is a subject far too

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big for one country one agency

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to tackle all by itself

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and when you can't do it by yourself

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you call up your colleagues halfway

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across the globe

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we're in the philippines to better

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understand how tiny particles from smoke

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and pollution affect cloud formation

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the campaign is called the cloud aerosol

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and monsoon processes philippines

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experiment

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camp x

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the two is silent

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that's just a joke but the acronym

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that's serious

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this project has implications for

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millions of people

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i'm the program scientist for camp x and

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while i'm here i'm sort of the decision

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maker of last resort if if something

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comes up

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we caught up with how between meetings

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and the hangar

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along with jeffrey reed from the naval

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research laboratory he's responsible for

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overseeing this large collaborative

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effort in real time

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making sure the team is meeting their

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scientific goals while also keeping

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researchers from institutions around the

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us and the philippines working together

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smoothly a critical part of the process

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was the relationship built

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through time

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that relationship enabled us to really

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work together

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think about what would be the questions

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that would be relevant to us in the

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philippines and in general to the region

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i'm gemma teresa narisma and i'm the

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executive director of the manila

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observatory

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the naval research laboratory and a

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handful of university partners are using

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two research planes and measurements

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from a ship to look at the properties of

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clouds to improve satellite measurements

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in the region

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satellites find it difficult to see food

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and food this region

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and

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regional climate models are having a

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hard time

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capturing these processes

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that basically means planes ships and

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teams on the ground need to fill in the

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missing details

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which brings us back to the most intense

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fire season in five years

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we were able to get the p3 into

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that smoke and make

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absolutely unique and important

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measurements

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it's important because if you cannot get

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the historical observations in our model

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then we're not so certain whether our

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climate projections are correct

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when the planes aren't flying the

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science teams and flight crews take

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turns visiting local schools from

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elementary up through university

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elementary school students can

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understand remarkably complicated

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concepts

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and so it's kind of fun to introduce

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introduce them to

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things they may not have known or

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thought about before and it's remarkable

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how quickly they pick up on it

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at these schools the scientists are

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treated like rock stars

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just an amazing response from the from

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the philippine students

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many autographs and more selfies than i

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some even said that they want to become

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meteorologists themselves to help carry

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on the study of our home planet and how

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it's changing

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i feel

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hopeful we're not getting any younger

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and the number of atmospheric scientists

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in the philippines in the world

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particularly in the philippines is quite

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small and and the kind of work that

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needs to be done

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to understand the different atmospheric

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processes in the region

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quite a lot

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we are so dependent on this earth

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because we live here we have to breathe

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here and find things to eat here

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it's important that we understand it so

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that we don't inadvertently

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cause damage that

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what we're seeing is that areas that

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have been flammable are becoming more

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flammable pushing those systems into

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either extreme conditions or

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a year-round fire season where fires are