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NASA's new Earth System Observatory (ESO) will provide key informationrelated to understanding climate change processes, mitigating naturalhazards, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agriculturalprocesses. The Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) constellation is designed toaddress these coupled processes by focusing on two of the five designatedobservables of the 2017 NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey: aerosols andclouds, convection, and precipitation (CCP). AOS is made up of two projects, one in an inclined orbit (AOS-I) and the other in a polar sun synchronousorbit (AOS-P), with both projects addressing synergistic aerosol and CCPscience. This talk will focus on AOS-P, which builds on the heritage of theA-Train to provide globally distributed observations but with more advancedcapabilities. This talk will summarize the science objectives of AOS-P thatfocus on aerosol-cloud-precipitation …