Memories of our research campaign CAFE-PACIFIC in Australia! In the video, Philip Holzbeck, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, shares his experiences as an operator aboard the research aircraft HALO. Philip was involved in a total of six measurement flights. A typical flight day, including pre- and post-flight preparations, lasts around […]
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As part of the large-scale aircraft measurement campaign CAFE-PACIFIC, Linda Ort, a doctoral candidate at MPIC, spent two months in Australia with her research colleagues. Using the research aircraft HALO and specialized measurement instruments, the team investigated cloud chemistry in the tropical region between Indonesia and northern Australia. In the video, Linda shares her impressions
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Earlier this year, a German team led a research mission over the Pacific Ocean to collect detailed measurements of the atmosphere, in order to better understand the chemistry of climate. Using a heavily-modified Gulfstream G550 (pictured), the Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Field Experiment (CAFE) team’s CAFE-Pacific mission flew for up to nine hours at a
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HALO is flying back home and is expected to be back in Oberpfaffenhofen after two transfer days with stops in Darwin, Malé, and Abu Dhabi.
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Im Rahmen des „Chemistry of the Atmosphere Field Experiments“ Programms misst ein Forschungsteam des Max-Planck-Instituts im Norden Australiens mit einem Spezialflugzeug namens „HALO“ Werte in der tropischen Atmosphäre. Es ist die dritte und abschließende Mission des Projekts CAFE. Im Gespräch verraten die Forschungsleiter*innen Hartwig Harder und Mira Pöhlker, wonach sie genau forschen, was die Flugzeugnase
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A team of German scientists have been circling the skies above northern Australia and the Pacific Ocean in a high-tech research aircraft studying the atmospheric chemistry occurring above the clouds. The Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Field Experiment (CAFE) team has tracked weather events and taken samples and measurements up to 15 kilometres above sea level.
Research expedition investigatesphotochemistry and aerosol particleformation in the tropical atmosphere. A trip upside down: Many scientists from the Max PIanckInstitute for Chemistry (MPIC) traveled Down Under inthe first weeks of January and experienced an absolutereversal of temperature and weather conditions. This wasalso the case for Dom Jack, graphic designer and photoreporter at the MPIC, during
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HALO is based in Cairns, Australia for the CAFE-Pacific campaign. The main objective of the CAFE missions is to investigate tropical tropospheric oxidant photochemistry in combination with aerosol particle formation and growth under clean, pristine conditions over land, and contrast the results with those in marine and polluted conditions. The measurements constrain computer models that represent chemical
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A high flying crack team of international scientists have flown into Cairns for the next stage of their global research expedition. Read why Cairns was chosen for the teams atmospheric research aboard a high-tech, high altitude long range aircraft. Read more.. (subscription necessary) Newspaper article in:
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Those looking up at the sky may have recently witnessed an unusual plane flying over Cairns. Their eyes aren’t playing tricks on them – throughout this month and next, the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry from Mainz, Germany, along with scientific partners including CQUniversity researchers – are measuring atmospheric molecular quantities in the maritime continent using a
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