HALO

HALO science missions

Concluded, ongoing and scheduled HALO missions are listet here. To quickly jump to information about specific HALO campaigns you can use the links below which are sorted alphabetically using the mission acronyms. The tables below provide basic information about these missions.

ACRIDICON
CAFE Africa
CHARM-F
COMET
EMeRGe
GEOHALO
iLOADS
ML-CIRRUS
NARVAL
NARVAL 2
NAWDEX
OMO
POLSTRACC/GW-LCYCLE/SALSA (PGS)
TACTS/ESMval
WISE

HALO science missions 2019-2022

For more detailed information on the HALO missions listed below, please follow the link underlying the mission acronym in the first table column.

Mission nameScience topicTime
period
(from - to)		Rio Grande, Argentinien
Principal
Investigator(s)
(Mission
coordinator)		Institute(s)
of PI(s)
SOUTHTRAC“SCOOP” -- Sulfur Cycle, Organic Oxidation
and Particle Nucleation Experiment		Jul 22. 2019 -
Dec 02. 2019		Rio Grande
Argentinien		Riese/Hoor
Sinnhuber/Engel
EUREC4AElucidating the Role of
Cloud-Circulation Coupling in Climate		Dez 09. 2019 -
Feb 17. 2020		BarbadosBjorn Stevens
CAFE-BrazilChemistry of the Atmosphere:
Field Experiment in Brazil		Feb 24 2020 -
Mar 15. 2020		tbdJos Lelieveld
(MPIC Mainz),
Ulrich Pöschl
(MPIC Mainz)
CIRRUS-HLairborne experiment on CIRRUS
in High Latitudes		Sep 14. 2020 -
Dec 14. 2020		tbdChristiane Voigt
HALO-(AC)3Atmospheric linkages between Arctic warming
and mid-latitude weather—meridional transport
and air masses transformation		Feb 8. 2021 -
Apr 12. 2021		Kiruna
Schweden		Manfred Wendisch
WAVEGUIDEgravity waves in the polar night jetOct 11. 2021 -
Dec 20. 2021		Kiruna
Schweden		Bernd Kaifler
CoMet 2.0Carbon Dioxide and MethaneFeb 14. 2022 -
Mar 16. 2022		tbd
Dr. Andreas Fix

HALO science missions 2016-2018

For more detailed information on the HALO missions listed below, please follow the link underlying the mission acronym in the first table column.

Mission nameScience topicTime
period
(from - to)		Airport
base		Hermann Oelhaf, Björn-Martin Sinnhuber
(Wolfgang Woiwode)		Institute(s)
of PI(s)
POLSTRACC GW-LCYCLE
SALSA (PGS)		Dynamics & chemistry of Arctic upper troposphere / lower stratosphereNov 2, 2015 -
Mar 24, 2016		Oberpfaffen-
hofen,
Kiruna		Hermann Oelhaf,
Björn-Martin
Sinnhuber
(Wolfgang Woiwode)		KIT, Karlsruhe
iLOADSStructural load analysis HALOMar 28 -
Apr 29, 2016		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		Wolf KrügerDLR, Institut für
Aeroelastik, Göttingen
NARVAL IIRemote sensing for validation:
organized convection in the deep tropics		Jun 20, 2016 -
Aug 31, 2016		BarbadosBjörn Stevens
(Lutz Hirsch)		Max Planck Institute
for Meteorology,
Hamburg
NAWDEXMid-latitude dynamic meteorology: North Atlantic
waveguide and downstream impact experiment		Sep 14, 2016 -
Oct 25, 2016		KeflavikGeorg Craig1
(Andreas Schäfler2)		1Meteorologisches
Institut, Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universität
München
2DLR, Institut für
Physik der Atmosphäre,
Oberpfaffenhofen
COMETAtmospheric composition: Sources and sinks
of carbon dioxide and methane		Feb 27, 2016 -
May 19, 2017		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		Andreas FixDLR, Institut für Physik
der Atmosphäre,
Oberpfaffenhofen
EMeRGe-EUAir chemistry: Transport and transformation
of pollutants from megacities		May 22, 2016 -
Aug 4, 2017		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		John Burrows, Lola Andrés HernándezUniv. Bremen
WISEDynamics & chemistry of mid-latitude
upper troposphere / lower stratosphere		Aug 7, 2017 -
Oct 20, 2017		ShannonMartin Riese1, Martin Kaufmann1, Peter Hoor21FZ Jülich, 2Univ. Mainz
EMeRGe-AsiaAir chemistry: Transport and transformation
of pollutants from megacities		Feb 26, 2018 -
May 4, 2018		John Burrows, Lola Andrés Hernández Univ. Bremen
CAFE AfricaAtmospheric oxidation capacity over
the tropical and South Atlantic Ocean		Jun 18, 2018 -
Sep 14, 2018		Jos Lelieveld, Hartwig Harder, Horst FischerMax Planck Institute
for Chemistry, Mainz

Past HALO science missions (prior to 2016)

For more detailed information on the HALO missions listed below, please follow the link underlying the mission acronym in the first table column.

Mission nameScience topicTime
period
(from - to)		Airport
base		Hermann Oelhaf, Björn-Martin SinnhuberInstitute(s)
of PI(s)
POLSTRACC
GW-LCYCLE
SALSA (PGS)		Dynamics & chemistry of Arctic upper troposphere
/ lower stratosphere		Nov 2, 2015 -
Mar 24, 2016		Oberpfaffen-
hofen,
Kiruna		Hermann Oelhaf,
Björn-Martin
Sinnhuber		KIT, Karlsruhe
OMOOxidation mechansim observations
in the extratropical free troposphere 		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		Jos LelieveldMax Planck Institute
for Chemistry, Mainz
CHARM-FCHARM-FApr 20, 2015 -
May 18, 2015
Oberpfaffen-
hofen		Axel AmediekDLR, Institut für Physik
der Atmosphäre,
Oberpfaffenhofen
ACRIDICONAerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, Radiation Interactions
and Dynamics of Convective Cloud Systems		Oberpfaffen-
hofen
ML-CIRRUSFormation, Lifetime, Properties
and Radiative Impact of Mid-Latitude
Cirrus Clouds		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		Christiane Voigt,
Andreas Minikin,
Ulrich Schumann		DLR, Institut für Physik
der Atmosphäre,
Oberpfaffenhofen
NARVALNARVALOberpfaffen-
hofen		Univ. Bremen
TACTS1 / ESMval21Transport and compositon in the UT/LMS
Seasonal Change:
Transition from summer to autumn
2Earth System Model Validation		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		1Andreas Engel, 2Hans Schlager1Univ. Frankfurt, 2DLR
GEOHALOGravimetry / magnetometry
of the Mediterranean		Oberpfaffen-
hofen		Mirko ScheinertUniv. Dresden