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Above the Clouds: HALO Measurement Campaign Successfully Completed

Media Reports & Press Releases | November 28, 2024

Over a period of more than three months, scientists have collected data on cloud formation in the Atlantic with the HALO research aircraft, and repeatedly performed flights underneath the EarthCARE satellite for joint measurements. This campaign, called PERCUSION, was led by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the German Aerospace Center and has now […]

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EC-TOOC, HALO mission, MPI-M Hamburg, ORCESTRA, PERCUSION

ORCESTRA: Exploring Tropical Clouds and their Impact on Climate

Media Reports & Press Releases | August 12, 2024

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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DLR, EC-TOOC, HALO mission, Hamburg University, Leipzig University, LMU, MPI-M Hamburg, ORCESTRA, PERCUSION, University of Cologne

Dramatic warming in the Arctic

Media Reports & Press Releases | März 18, 2022

Joint press release by Leipzig University + Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) + German Aerospace Center (DLR) + Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) + Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) + Hamburg University + University of Cologne + Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) ) + Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU)

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AWI, DLR, HALO mission, HALO-(AC)3, Hamburg University, Leipzig University, MPI-C Mainz, MPI-M Hamburg, TROPOS Leipzig, University of Cologne