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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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Group uses adapted plane to study how cloud of ‚mysterious particles‘ 15 km from the ground impacts the Amazon

Grupo usa avião adaptado para estudar como nuvem de ‚partículas misteriosas‘ a 15 km do solo impacta a Amazônia O projeto chamado CAFE-Brazil busca compreender uma camada de gases encontrada na atmosfera da região em 2016. Além de sua existência ser desconhecida até então, os cientistas ainda não sabem qual a função que ela exerce.

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German jet with probes has been seen flying in circles in the Amazon since the beginning of the month

Jato alemão com sondas tem sido visto voando em círculos na Amazônia desde o começo do mês Um avião executivo do modelo Gulfstream G550, de matrícula alemã D-ADLR, tem sido visto na região de Manaus desde o começo deste dezembro. Numa rotina que se repete ao longo dos dias, ele decola, faz voos com vários

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Research in and high above the Amazon rainforest

International team investigates chemical processes in the atmosphere in Brazil Joint press release of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Universidade de São Paulo, and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia The go-ahead has been given for the German-Brazilian research project CAFE-Brazil (Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Field Experiment in Brazil). Since

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Special plane conducts experiment on the influence of the forest on the climate of the Amazon

Avião especial realiza experimento sobre influência da floresta no clima da Amazônia MANAUS – Foi dada a largada para um grande experimento científico inédito na Amazônia, o chamado Cafe-Brazil – Chemistry of the Amazonian Atmosphere-Field Experiment in Brazil. Por dois meses, dezembro e janeiro, a atmosfera amazônica será analisada em detalhes, com um avião especial, cujos

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Clouds Less Climate-sensitive Than Assumed

Airborne Campaign Solves Parts of the Riddle of Clouds Cumulus clouds in trade-wind regions cover nearly 20 percent of our planet, producing a cooling effect. Until recently, it was assumed that global warming would reduce the surface covered by these clouds, amplifying the warming. However, a team around Dr. Raphaela Vogel from Universität Hamburg was

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HALO-AC3 – DMG Kurzbericht

Heute wollen wir euch eine weitere Messkampagne vorstellen.Von dem Forschungsflugzeug HALO haben wir euch vor einiger Zeit schonmal berichtet (15.10.2021 & 05.11.2021). Damals im Zusammenhang mit der Messkampagne CIRRUS-HL.Diesmal war HALO nicht alleine unterwegs und hatte auch ein paar andere Geräte an Bord, aber eins nach dem anderen.Erstmal zum Kampagnen Namen HALO-(AC)³. Der erste Teil

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