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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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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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