Publications
This page provides an overview 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)
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)
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.
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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 HALO. Bull. 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 Lockdown. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103, E1796–E1827, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0012.1.
CAFE-Africa (2018)
Schneider, J., Weigel, R., Klimach, T., Dragoneas, A., Appel, O., Hünig, A., Molleker, S., Köllner, F., Clemen, H.-C., Eppers, O., Hoppe, P., Hoor, P., Mahnke, C., Krämer, M., Rolf, C., Grooß, J.-U., Zahn, A., Obersteiner, F., Ravegnani, F., Ulanovsky, A., Schlager, H., Scheibe, M., Diskin, G. S., DiGangi, J. P., Nowak, J. B., Zöger, M., and Borrmann, S.: 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, 2021.
CAFE-Brazil (2022/23)
Curtius, J., Heinritzi, M., Beck, L.J. et al. Isoprene nitrates drive new particle formation in Amazon’s upper troposphere. Nature 636, 124–130 (2024). 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 HALO. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 106, E2300–E2327, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0270.1.
CoMet (2018)
Gałkowski, M., Jordan, A., Rothe, M., Marshall, J., Koch, F.-T., Chen, J., Agusti-Panareda, A., Fix, A., and Gerbig, C.: 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, 2021.
EMeRGe (EU: 2017 ; Asia: 2018)
Andrés Hernández, M. D., Hilboll, A., Ziereis, H., Förster, E., Krüger, O. O., Kaiser, K., Schneider, J., Barnaba, F., Vrekoussis, M., Schmidt, J., Huntrieser, H., Blechschmidt, A.-M., George, M., Nenakhov, V., Harlass, T., Holanda, B. A., Wolf, J., Eirenschmalz, L., Krebsbach, M., Pöhlker, M. L., Kalisz Hedegaard, A. B., Mei, L., Pfeilsticker, K., Liu, Y., Koppmann, R., Schlager, H., Bohn, B., Schumann, U., Richter, A., Schreiner, B., Sauer, D., Baumann, R., Mertens, M., Jöckel, P., Kilian, M., Stratmann, G., Pöhlker, C., Campanelli, M., Pandolfi, M., Sicard, M., Gómez-Amo, J. L., Pujadas, M., Bigge, K., Kluge, F., Schwarz, A., Daskalakis, N., Walter, D., Zahn, A., Pöschl, U., Bönisch, H., Borrmann, S., Platt, U., and Burrows, J. P.: 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, 2022.
EUREC4A (2020)
Konow, H., Ewald, F., George, G., Jacob, M., Klingebiel, M., Kölling, T., Luebke, A. E., Mieslinger, T., Pörtge, V., Radtke, J., Schäfer, M., Schulz, H., Vogel, R., Wirth, M., Bony, S., Crewell, S., Ehrlich, A., Forster, L., Giez, A., Gödde, F., Groß, S., Gutleben, M., Hagen, M., Hirsch, L., Jansen, F., Lang, T., Mayer, B., Mech, M., Prange, M., Schnitt, S., Vial, J., Walbröl, A., Wendisch, M., Wolf, K., Zinner, T., Zöger, M., Ament, F., and Stevens, B.: EUREC4A’s HALO, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5545–5563, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5545-2021, 2021.
> Data description paper
Konow, H., et al.: EUREC4A’s HALO, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5545–5563, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5545-2021, 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 HALO. Bull. 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 Expeditions. Bull. 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 Experiment. Bull. 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 2023. Bull. 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 Hotspot. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102, E871–E893, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0034.1.
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