DLR news, 28-Sep-2016
In the ‚cooking pot‘ of the ‚weather kitchen‘ – research flights over the North Atlantic for better weather forecasts. Everyone knows this situation with a weather forecast, when the presenter reveals a new Icelandic low on the map. Very soon, they are then often told, the trough of low pressure will reach the mainland and determine the weather for many days in Europe. Small errors often lead to the forecast in Europe being very uncertain for several days, because the system develops vigorously in the ‚weather kitchen‘ over the Atlantic, and that is difficult to capture in weather models. Under the leadership of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), research flights are expected to provide high-resolution data to shed more light on the weather patterns in the remote North Atlantic that are so crucial for Europe.
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BBC news, 29-Sep-2016
Flights probe jet stream role in floods. A major international effort is under way to research one of the greatest unknowns in weather forecasting – the influence of the jet stream. For the first time, a fleet of drones and planes is being deployed from the United States, Iceland and Britain to investigate the flow of air crossing the Atlantic.
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ARD-Morgenmagazin, 21-Oct-2016
NAWDEX in ARD-Morgenmagazin. On October 21st 2016, the TV host and meteorologist Donald Bäcker presented the weather reports of the ARD-Morgenmagazin from the hangar at DLR Oberpfaffenhofen. He interviewed George Craig and Andreas Schäfler about the NAWDEX campaign, the scientific questions it addressed and the instrumental challenges asociated with it.
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LMU research highlights, 3-Nov-2016
Spectral remote sensing of clouds during NARVAL-2 und NAWDEX. Between August and October 2016 the LMU cloud spectrometer specMACS was part of a comprehensive remote sensing instrumentation on the research aircraft HALO. specMACS provided spectral imagery of solar radiance between 500 and 2500 nm wavelength. A swath of several kilometres width was provided along the aircraft flight track. Based on this data spatial cloud distribution, cloud phase, and cloud particle size will be provided.
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