Today, HALO performed it first scientific flight over Brazil for the campaign CAFE-Brazil. After a stopover in Sal (Cape Verde) HALO arrived on 2 December in Manaus.
The main objective of CAFE-Brazil is to study tropospheric oxidant photochemistry in combination with particle formation and growth mechanisms under clean, pristine conditions over the Amazon rainforest, and contrast the results with those in marine and polluted conditions, in part from previous measurement campaigns.
Picture: HALO in Cape Verde for the stopover on the way to Brazil