HALO research aircraft has provided valuable contributions to research into the effects on the climate of the Asian Summer Monsoon and the wildfires in Canada
Touchdown for the PHILEAS mission: Following the removal of the instruments from the HALO research aircraft in Oberpfaffenhofen in Bavaria, the measurement campaign has been completed on schedule. Over the past eight weeks, a team of researchers coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has been investigating the impacts of the Asian Summer Monsoon on global climate, fully achieving the ambitious measurement objectives. The wealth of exceptional data collected will allow profound insights into how the Asian Summer Monsoon and so-called pyroconvection transport airborne pollutants. With regard to the latter, large-scale fires of the type seen in Canada generate powerful convection and also pyrocumulonimbus or thunderstorm clouds that can aggravate the situation. Initial results of the analysis of the data should be available in a couple of months.
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