HALO off to New Zealand for HALO South mission
HALO is on its way to New Zealand for a detailed look at clouds in the South Pacific and Southern Ocean during the HALO-South Mission.
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HALO updates
HALO performing EarthCARE underflight during transfer to Kiruna, SWE
Successful transfer flight including an EarthCARE underflight to the ASCCI campaign base in Kiruna, Sweden. Within the next four weeks HALO is going to perform about 8-10 research flights. Picture: The HALO research aircraft arriving in Kiruna in northern Sweden. On the underside of the fuselage, the instrument developed and operated by KIT and Forschungszentrum Jülich GLORIA
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Successful first mission flight for ASCCI mission
Today’s first long mission flight of HALO for the ASCCI mission went well. Landing was approx. 18:41 local and thus almost 9:40 hours flight time practically as planned. No major instrument problems were reported in the de-briefing. We will now continue with three ground days as planned and the transfer to Kiruna as a longer measurement flight
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HALO mission integration ongoing
Preparations for the next HALO mission are on the way. During the ASCCI campaign, scientists aim at improving their understanding of: 1. Inter-annual variability of Arctic lower stratospheric ozone depletion and the implications for radiative forcing and surface climate impacts of ozone recovery2. High latitude stratosphere-troposphere exchange and the structure of the high latitude tropopause3.
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Update from the PERCUSION mission
PERCUSION mission execution part I with base in Sal (Cape Verde) is ongoing.
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HALO mission integration for PERCUSION
Integration and preparation for the next HALO mission PERCUSION is ongoing. PERCUSION is planned as a nine-week EarthCARE centered campaign that will focus both on EarthCARE characterization and on studies of deep convection over the tropical Atlantic close to the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in mid to late summer (between August to October 2024). The objectives of
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CAFÉ-PACIFIC mission closing
HALO is flying back home and is expected to be back in Oberpfaffehofen after two transfer days with stops in Darwin, Malé, and Abu Dhabi.
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HALO in Australia for CAFÉ-Pacific mission
HALO is based in Cairns, Australia for the CAFE-Pacific campaign. The main objective of the CAFE missions is to investigate tropical tropospheric oxidant photochemistry in combination with aerosol particle formation and growth under clean, pristine conditions over land, and contrast the results with those in marine and polluted conditions. The measurements constrain computer models that represent chemical
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DFG Funds Five Novel Scientific Instruments for Installation and Research in the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft HALO
Results of the DFG Major Instrumentation Initiative “HALO-Instruments – the Expansion of the Scientific Instrumentation of the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft HALO” Within a Major Instrumentation Initiative, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) funds novel advanced scientific instruments to be installed aboard the Research Aircraft HALO. These instruments are for dedicated use in future
PHILEAS mission successfully finished
Last flight of PHILEAS was successfully completed in Oberpfaffenhofen! Thank you all for a very successfull campaign! Picture: HALO in front of the hangar in Oberpfaffenhofen. Photo: DLR-FX.
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