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ORCESTRA: Half-Time for the Tropical Cloud Experiment

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MPI-M researchers and their partner institutions are currently performing atmospheric measurements over the equatorial Atlantic with eight coordinated measurement campaigns. They want to find out what controls the structure of the tropical rain belt, how it will change in the future and what this means for weather patterns. A variety of state-of-the-art research platforms are […]

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Messkampagne mit HALO auf den Kap Verden

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Der erste Teil der groß angelegten Messkampagne PERCUSION/ORCHESTRA neigt sich dem Ende. Fast 4 Wochen war dabei das deutsche Forschungsflugzeug HALO auf den Kap Verden stationiert und hat dabei zahlreiche Daten gesammelt um die Instrumente des EarthCARE Satelliten validieren zu können. Dafür ist das Forschungsflugzeug HALO mit einer ähnlichen Payload bestückt, wie die EarthCARE-Payload. Für die Vergleichsmessungen werden dabei

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ORCESTRA: Exploring Tropical Clouds and their Impact on Climate

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The ORCESTRA started his performance on August 10th in Cap Verde. The PERCUSION gives the beat by flying back and forth across the belt of deep rain over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, while the MAESTRO directs his plane around fields of broken cumuli around Cap Verde to understand how convective storms form and organize. The

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HALO mission integration for PERCUSION

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Integration and preparation for the next HALO mission PERCUSION is ongoing. PERCUSION is planned as a nine-week EarthCARE centered campaign that will focus both on EarthCARE characterization and on studies of deep convection over the tropical Atlantic close to the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) in mid to late summer (between August to October 2024). The objectives of

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CAFE-Pacific – Campaign interview with Philip Holzbeck

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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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CAFE-Pacific – Campaign interview with Linda Ort

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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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Premium Podcast: The mission to measure our atmosphere – Australian Aviation

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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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PHILEAS – Measurements with HALO in air masses from the Asian monsoon

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The upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) are particularly sensitive to changes in chemical composition. This region is very important for the radiation budget of the Earth’s atmosphere, and most long-haul air traffic takes place in it. In order to correctly classify the impact of aviation, it is important to understand the background atmosphere where

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