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Premiere in New Zealand: HALO research aircraft takes a detailed look at clouds in the South Pacific and Southern Ocean

Media Reports & Press Releases | August 26, 2025

The German research aircraft HALO is currently being prepared for deployment in New Zealand at its home base at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen: During the „HALO-South“ mission, which will begin in September, researchers led by the Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) will investigate the interaction of clouds, aerosols, and radiation over […]

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DLR, GU Frankfurt, HALO South, Leipzig University, MPI-C Mainz, New Zealand, TROPOS Leipzig

PHILEAS: HALO startet in Anchorage zu weiteren Messflügen

Media Reports & Press Releases | August 25, 2023

Im Projekt PHILEAS (Probing High Latitude Export of Air from the Asian Summer Monsoon) werden unter Leitung des Forschungszentrums Jülich und der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz seit dem 6. August 2023 Messflüge mit dem Höhenforschungsflugzeug HALO durchgeführt. Damit wollen die beteiligten Wissenschaftler:innen bis Anfang Oktober den Einfluss des asiatischen Sommermonsuns auf das globale Klima untersuchen. Nach

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FZJ, GU Frankfurt, HALO mission, PHILEAS

Research in and high above the Amazon rainforest

Media Reports & Press Releases | Dezember 5, 2022

International team investigates chemical processes in the atmosphere in Brazil Joint press release of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Universidade de São Paulo, and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia The go-ahead has been given for the German-Brazilian research project CAFE-Brazil (Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Field Experiment in Brazil). Since

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CAFE-Brazil, GU Frankfurt, HALO mission, MPI-C Mainz, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Investigating the ozone hole, Amazon fires and gravity waves with the German HALO research aircraft

Media Reports & Press Releases | September 11, 2019

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

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DLR, FZJ, GU Frankfurt, HALO mission, JGU Mainz, KIT, SouthTRAC