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CoMet 3.0 Tropics

Carbon Dioxide and Methane Mission for HALO 3.0 Tropics

Mission status: scheduled

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Persons in Charge

Mission-PI

 Andreas Fix, German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (DLR-PA), Oberpfaffenhofen

Science Team

DLR Oberpfaffenhofen: Christian Fruck, Mathieu Quatrevalet, Anke Roiger, Julia Marshall, Patrick Jöckel, Markus Rapp
Universität Bremen: Heinrich Bovensmann, Sven Krautwurst, Hartmut Bösch
Max-Planck-Institut, Jena: Christoph Gerbig, Michal Galkowski
LMU München: Bernhard Mayer

Contact point at DLR-FX for this mission:

HALO Project Management: Andreas Minikin

Postal address:
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
Flugexperimente (FX)
Projektmanagement
Münchener Str. 20
82234 Weßling
Germany

Office phone:
+49 (0)8153 28-2538

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HALO Deployment Base

Time Period

Jun – Sep 2026

Mission phases
  • 24 Jun 26 – 26 Jul 26 || Preparation, Payload integration, EMI testing
  • 27 Jul 26 – 06 Sep 26 || Mission execution
  • 07 Sep 26 – 13 Sep 26 || Dismounting of Payload

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Project description

The CoMet 3.0 Tropics mission will succeed the missions CoMet and CoMet 2.0 Arctic. By means of CoMet 3.0 Tropics, we intend to extend the study to tropical wetlands and also support validation of upcoming GHG satellite missions.

CoMet 3.0 Tropics aims at reducing uncertainty in global wetland CH4 estimates, a complex task due to the dispersed nature of emissions and inter-annual variations. Current data coverage in the tropics is limited, with ground-based and satellite observations facing challenges. Airborne field campaigns show much promise to bridge these gaps.

The projected instrumentation includes the consolidated CoMet payload consisting of advanced remote sensing and in-situ instruments, with minor upgrades. University instruments foreseen are the MAMAP2D system by University of Bremen, which is an imaging spectrometer for GHGs, and the specMACS hyperspectral imager by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU). The data collected will be used within regional inverse models (University of Leipzig) and regionally nested global chemistry climate models.

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Partners

    • German Aerospace Center, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (DLR-IPA)
    • Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC)
    • University of Bremen – Institute for Environmental Physics (IUP)
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Meteorological Institute Munich (MIM)
    • German Aerospace Center, Flight Experiments (DLR-FX)

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Scientific instruments and payload configuration

  • List of scientific instruments for the mission:

  • BAHAMAS

    HALO Basic aircraft measurement system | Andreas Giez (DLR-FX)

  • CHARM-F

    Integrated path differential absorption lidat (IPDA) | Andreas Fix (DLR-PA)

  • MAMAP2D

    Imaging NIR Spectrometer | Heinrich Bovensmann (Uni Bremen)

  • JIG

    Cavity-Ringdown Spectroscopy (CRDS) | Christoph Gerbig (MPI-BGC)

  • JAS

    Air sampler | Christoph Gerbig (MPI-BGC)

  • MIRACLE

    Laser Spectrometer | Anke Roiger (DLR-PA)

  • Dropsondes

    Meteorological dropsondes | Stefan Kaufmann (DLR-PA)

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HALO flights for this mission

Flights are listed by
Aircraft registration | Date | Take-off / Landing (UT) | Total flight time (h) | From / To | Mission #

  • D-ADLR | yyyy-mm-dd | hh:mm:ss – hh:mm:ss | h.hh | CODE – CODE | RF01
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More information

No additional information available at this time.

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Press releases, media etc.

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