HALO

Publications

This page provides a list of mission overview papers, special issues, and links to individual publication lists related to HALO missions and instruments.

Special journal issues about HALO misisons and instruments

ACRIDICON-CHUVA (2014)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) / Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT):
The ACRIDICON-CHUVA campaign to study deep convective clouds and precipitation over Amazonia using the new German HALO research aircraft (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI). Editor(s): S. A. Penkett, S. A. Buehler, U. Schumann, and A. Heymsfield


BLUESKY (2020)

ACP special issue: BLUESKY atmospheric composition measurements by aircraft during the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. Editor(s): ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Jianzhong Ma and Neil Harris | Co-organizers: Jos Lelieveld and Christiane Voigt


CoMet (2018)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), and Geoscientific Model Development (GMD):
CoMet: a mission to improve our understanding and to better quantify the carbon dioxide and methane cycles (AMT/ACP/GMD inter-journal SI). Editor(s): Andreas Richter, Dominik Brunner, Frank Hase, Diego Loyola, and Justus Notholt


CoMet 2.0 Arctic (2022)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), and Geoscientific Model Development (GMD):CoMet 2.0 Arctic: a mission to improve our understanding of carbon dioxide and methane cycles at high northern latitudes (AMT/ACP/GMD inter-journal SI). Editor(s): Tanja Schuck and Christoph Gerbig


EMeRGe (2018)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) / Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT):
Effect of Megacities on the Transport and Transformation of Pollutants at Regional and Global Scales (EMeRGe) (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI). Editor(s): ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Andreas Petzold and Manabu Shiraiwa | Co-organizers: Lola Andrés Hernández and Helmut Ziereis


EUREC4A (2020)

ESSD special issue: Elucidating the role of clouds–circulation coupling in climate: datasets from the 2020 (EUREC4A) field campaign. Editor(s): Helene Brogniez, Silke Gross, Sebastiaan Swart, Lisan Yu, Gijs de Boer, and David Carlson


HALO-(AC)3 (2021)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) / Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT):
HALO-(AC)3 – an airborne campaign to study air mass transformations during warm-air intrusions and cold-air outbreaks (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI). Editor(s): ACP co-editors | Coordinators: Martina Krämer and Paul Zieger | Co-organizers: Manfred Wendisch and Susanne Crewell


ML-CIRRUS (2014)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) / Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT):
ML-CIRRUS – the airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus in mid-latitudes with the high-altitude long-range research aircraft HALO (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI). Editor(s): C. Voigt, E. Jensen, Baumgardner, U. Schumann, R. S. Gao, and Dr. O. Möhler.


POLSTRACC (2016)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) / Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT):
The Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate (POLSTRACC) (ACP/AMT inter-journal SI). Editor(s): B.-M. Sinnhuber, H. Oelhaf, M. Chipperfield, R. Müller, and R. Schofield


SouthTRAC (2019)

Special issue in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres: SOUTHTRAC-GW: An Airborne Field Campaign to Explore Gravity Wave Dynamics at the World’s Strongest Hotspot


WISE (2017)

Inter-journal special issue in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) / Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) /  Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD):
WISE: Wave-driven isentropic exchange in the extratropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (ACP/AMT/WCD inter-journal SI). Editor(s): Peter Haynes and Mathias Palm


GLORIA (Instrument)

Special issue in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT):
Atmospheric limb imaging with GLORIA. Editor(s): C. von Savigny and J. Notholt.

HALO Mission overview papers

ACRIDICON-CHUVA (2014)

Wendisch, M., and Coauthors, 2016: ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALOBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.97, 1885–1908, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00255.1.


BLUESKY (2020)

Voigt, C., Lelieveld, J., and Coauthors, 2022: Cleaner Skies during the COVID-19 LockdownBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.103, E1796–E1827, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0012.1.


CAFE-Africa (2018)

Schneider, J., and Coauthors, 2021: Aircraft-based observation of meteoric material in lower-stratospheric aerosol particles between 15 and 68° N, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 989–1013, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-989-2021.


CAFE-Brazil (2022/23)

Curtius, J., Heinritzi, M., Beck, L.J., and Coauthors, 2024: Isoprene nitrates drive new particle formation in Amazon’s upper troposphereNature 636, 124–130, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08192-4


CIRRUS-HL (2021)

Jurkat-Witschas, T., and Coauthors, 2025: CIRRUS-HL: Picturing High- and Midlatitude Summer Cirrus and Contrail Cirrus above Europe with Airborne Measurements aboard the Research Aircraft HALOBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.106, E2300–E2327, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0270.1.


CoMet (2018)

Gałkowski, M., and Coauthors, 2021: In situ observations of greenhouse gases over Europe during the CoMet 1.0 campaign aboard the HALO aircraft, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 1525–1544, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-1525-2021.


EMeRGe (EU: 2017 ; Asia: 2018)

Andrés Hernández, and Coauthors, 2022: Overview: On the transport and transformation of pollutants in the outflow of major population centres – observational data from the EMeRGe European intensive operational period in summer 2017, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 5877–5924, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5877-2022.


EUREC4A (2020)

Stevens, B. and Coauthors, 2021: EUREC4AEarth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4067–119, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021.

  > Data description paper

Konow, H., and Coauthors. 2021: EUREC4A’s HALOEarth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5545–5563, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5545-2021.


HALO-(AC)3 (2021)

Wendisch, M., and Coauthors, 2023: Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E208–E242, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0218.1.


ML-CIRRUS (2014)

Voigt, C., and Coauthors, 2017: ML-CIRRUS: The Airborne Experiment on Natural Cirrus and Contrail Cirrus with the High-Altitude Long-Range Research Aircraft HALOBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.98, 271–288, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00213.1.


NARVAL (2014) & NARVAL 2 (2016)

Stevens, B., and Coauthors, 2019: A High-Altitude Long-Range Aircraft Configured as a Cloud Observatory: The NARVAL ExpeditionsBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.100, 1061–1077, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0198.1.


NAWDEX (2016)

Schäfler, A., and Coauthors, 2018: The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact ExperimentBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.99, 1607–1637, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0003.1.


PERCUSION (2024)

Groß, S., et al., 2026: Persistent EarthCARE underflight studies of the ITCZ and organized convection (PERCUSION): Contribution to EarthCARE Validation. EGUSphere, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-112 . (pre-print)


PHILEAS (2023)

Riese, M., Hoor, P.,  and Coauthors, 2025: Long-range transport of polluted Asian summer monsoon air to high latitudes during the PHILEAS campaign in the boreal summer 2023Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., , BAMS-D-24-0232.1, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0232.1, in press.


POLSTRACC (2016)

Oelhaf, H., and Coauthors, 2019: POLSTRACC: Airborne Experiment for Studying the Polar Stratosphere in a Changing Climate with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO)Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.100, 2634–2664, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0181.1.


SouthTRAC (2019)

Rapp, M., and Coauthors, 2021: SOUTHTRAC-GW: An Airborne Field Campaign to Explore Gravity Wave Dynamics at the World’s Strongest HotspotBull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.102, E871–E893, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0034.1.

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last update: May 2026