Press releases and stories
Nationnews Barbados, 24-Aug-2016
Research aircraft to study climate change. For the next few days Barbados will be part of the fight to understand global warming. A 26-member team of scientists, pilots and flight technicians from the High Altitude and LOng Range (HALO) Research Aircraft will be stationed at the Grantley Adams International Airport.
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Barbados Today, 22-Aug-2016
Rainfall prediction made easier. Predicting weather systems and monitoring cloud formation will be a little easier once six German scientists on a specially equipped research aircraft are finished with the research they are conductiong on the southeast coast of Barbados.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, 15-Aug-2016
Do clouds make the wind blow? Airborne investigations of the interplay between clouds and circulation. Which climate effects do clouds have? Under what conditions do they warm or cool the atmosphere? And what role do clouds play in shaping the atmospheric circulation, and hence help maintain the environment in which they grow? The field campaign NARVAL II, initiated and lead by scientists from the department The Atmosphere in the Earth System (Prof Bjorn Stevens) at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and colleagues at the Universität Hamburg, aims to answer these questions. The NARVAL II mission started on 8 August 2016 with a ferry flight of the research aircraft HALO (High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft) from Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, to Barbados.
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Meteorologisches Institut München der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 08.08.2016
NARVAL-II measurement campaign over the southern Atlantic. NARVAL-II stands for the second part of the „Next generation Aircraft Remote-sensing for Validation studies“ campaign and is flown from Barbados between 8.8. and 31.8.2016. The formation of tropical convection is the area of research the campaign is aimed at. With a set of instruments (most remopte sensing) the phenomenon of aggregating low level trade cumulus convection to larger deep convection and finally tropical storms is observed.
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DLR news, 7-Sep-2016
HALO in the Caribbean – tropical cloud research. What effects do tropical clouds have on our climate? Do they warm up or cool down the atmosphere? What factors do they influence? Even the latest models do not fully understand the effects of these climate-influencing ‚clouds‘. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), together with partners from other research institutions, went to the Caribbean to investigate these questions.
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