Activities in congested urban areas all over the world were reduced this spring as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Only a few aircraft have continued to fly. As such, Earth’s atmosphere is significantly less polluted by emissions from human transport and industrial activities than it was previously. In the BLUESKY mission, scientists are investigating how clean […]
Two research aircraft investigate reduced concentrations of pollutants in the air The COVID-19 pandemic is not only affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives, but also the environment. A German team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), now wants to
BLUESKY examines the atmosphere during the Coronavirus lockdown Weiterlesen »
The SouthTRAC measurement campaign with the German research aircraft HALO was successfully performed in the region of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula end of 2019. This region is a hotspot of middle atmospheric gravity waves. An overview and first results of the data analysis were presented to the international community by members of our matrix group „Middle
From 20 January through 20 February 2020, the EUREC4A (Elucidating the role of clouds-circulation coupling in climate) field study will investigate trade wind clouds in the Tropical Atlantic. EUREC4A is a French-German initiated field study led by Prof Bjorn Stevens, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and head of the department “The
The German High Altitude and Long Range (HALO) research aircraft will be exploring the atmosphere in the southern hemisphere and its impact on climate change during September and November 2019 as part of the SOUTHTRAC (Transport and Composition of the Southern Hemisphere UTLS) mission. The main objective of the first phase of the campaign is
Zwischen 87 Grad Nord über dem Nordpolarmeer und 65 Grad Süd über der Antarktis war das deutsche Atmosphären-Forschungsflugzeug HALO über die vergangene Dekade im Einsatz. 23 Missionen über alle Ozeane und Kontinente hinweg zählt HALOs Logbuch inzwischen: mehr als 2000 Flugstunden in der Luft für die Forschung in bis zu 15 Kilometern Höhe. Im Interview
Zehn Jahre HALO: Interview mit Forschungspilot Stefan Grillenbeck Weiterlesen »
Am Samstag, dem 24. Januar 2009, ist das neue deutsche Forschungsflugzeug HALO in Oberpfaffenhofen gelandet. Zusammen mit den Nutzern aus der gesamten deutschen Atmosphärenforschung freuen sich besonders die Wissenschaftler des Max-Planck-Institutes für Chemie in Mainz, denn sie waren Ideengeber und haben maßgeblich an der Umsetzung mitgearbeitet. HALO, ein Flugzeug der Marke Gulfstream G550, eröffnet der
Vom Ziel zur Realität: Das Forschungsflugzeug HALO ist da! Weiterlesen »