HALO back from maintenance
HALO is back from the maintenance in the USA and the installation for the next campaign PHILEAS is ongoing.
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Mit dem Forschungsflieger in die Gewitterwolken
Ein deutsch-brasilianisches Forschungsprojekt nimmt Messungen in der Atmosphäre vor, um den tropischen Regenwald besser zu verstehen. Wenn Joachim Curtius vom deutsch-brasilianischen Projekt CAFE-Brazil erzählt, kommt der Atmosphärenforscher ins Schwärmen. 60 Tage lang war er in der brasilianischen Tropenstadt Manaus im Amazonasgebiet, um mit dem Forschungsflugzeug HALO über dem Regenwald Messungen vorzunehmen, gemeinsam mit 70 weiteren Wissenschaftlerinnen und
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Weather conditions during the HALO-(AC)³ campaign
As we reported earlier in this blog, we participated in the airborne field campaign HALO-(AC)³ In March and April 2022. The goal of the campaign was to improve the understanding of the airmasses transformation when transported into or out of the Arctic. Two types of airmass transports were of particular interest: First, moist and warm
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CAFE Brazil research campaignsuccessfully completed
Exhausted, satisfied and with huge data sets in their bags,most of the participants of the CAFE Brazil campaignreturned home at the end of January. Some had beenthere since the beginning of the two-month expedition andhad spent the turn of the year south of the equator. Amongthem is meteorologist Linda Ort from Horst Fischer‘sworking group. She
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The life of a DLR pilot: a combination of campaign assignments and regular day-to-day tasks
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Gathering airborne data, even with a blocked nose
Interview with Christian Mallaun, a meteorologist from DLR’s Flight Experiments facility, also has measuring sensors on board. Read more.. (in English) | Weiterlesen.. (auf Deutsch) blog entry by:
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Wings over the Amazon: project management for climate research
Interview with DLR project manager Thomas Sprünken Read more.. (in English) | Weiterlesen.. (auf Deutsch) blog entry by:
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HALO back from successful CAFE-Brazil mission
HALO ist back from the campaign CAFE-Brazil! Yesterday, it landed safely in Oberpfaffenhofen. We are glad to have accomplished an extraordinarily successful campaign. Many thanks to the very dedicated team and our Brazilian partners, without whom this campaign would not have been possible. By completing more than 180 flight hours, we gathered a treasure of
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News from HALO campaign CAFE-Brazil
The new HALO-year begins with the second phase of CAFE-Brazil. Tomorrow we are going for our twelfth flight of the campaign. We are looking forward to three and a half more weeks for this campaign, before HALO will leave Brazil on 28 January.
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Tracking greenhouse gases: the HALO-CoMet missions
The harmful greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) enter the atmosphere from both natural and man-made sources. The goal of the CoMet 2.0 Arctic mission with the HALO research aircraft in the summer of 2022 was to find out how much greenhouse gases the various sources actually emit. For this purpose, we equipped
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