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
Researchers solve puzzle of how mountain-generated atmospheric waves wind up in hot spot The Southern Ocean is famously stormy, home to waves taller than telephone poles. Yet 50 kilometers overhead, the weather is just as tempestuous, if less obviously so. Powerful waves in the air break and crash, dumping energy into the stratosphere and disrupting
Aircraft spies gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica’s polar vortex Weiterlesen »
The EUREC4A field study is aimed at solving one of the great mysteries in relation to climate change When it comes to predicting the extent of global warming by the end of the century, clouds are one of the greatest uncertainty factors. Cumulus clouds in lower layers of the atmosphere, reflect sunlight, thereby cooling the
Clouds from every angle Weiterlesen »
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 SouthTRAC aircraft campaign operates the German High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft HALO to investigate transport, composition and dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). Intensive operation periods take place in September and November 2019 out of Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Research topics include the influence of biomass
The SouthTRAC aircraft campaign started: coordination with NDACC activities Weiterlesen »
Das wichtigste Ziel der ersten Kampagnenphase in SOUTHTRAC ist die Untersuchung von Schwerewellen an der Südspitze Amerikas und über der Antarktis mit der DLR Gulfstream G550 HALO. Mit der Mission „SOUTHTRAC“ (Transport and Composition of the Southern Hemisphere UTLS) erkundet das deutsche Forschungsflugzeug HALO im September und November 2019 die südliche Atmosphäre und ihre Auswirkungen auf den Klimawandel. Spurengase wie Ozon und
SOUTHTRAC: HALO Messflüge zu Ozon und Schwerewellen Weiterlesen »
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
Santiago, May 24 2019.- Chilean, German and Argentinian scientists, as well as political authorities of these three countries, met in the halls of the Chancellery of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for two days, in the workshop „SouthTRAC HALO“, a workshop that brought together researchers and that want to relate to the German scientific project Southern
Countries promote joint work through „SouthTRAC HALO“ workshop Weiterlesen »