Global Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change Research
EUROPE's SOLUTION FOR GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE MONITORING

  August flights to Caracas and Osaka successfully completed . . .
CARIBIC is an innovative scientific project to study and monitor important chemical and physical processes in the Earth´s atmosphere. Detailed and extensive measurements are made during long distance flights. We deploy an airfreight container with automated scientific apparatus which are connected to an air and particle (aerosol) inlet underneath the aircraft. We use an Airbus A340-600 from Lufthansa since December 2004.

• A.K. Baker et al.: on NMHC . . . Asian summer monsoon , Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 10, 18101-18138, 2010.

CARIBIC volcanic cloud fact finding flights:
• Th 29 April  -   • Su 16 May -   • We 19 May
Latest CARIBIC Publications (short):
• Sprung, D., and A. Zahn: on Acetone / UTLS . . ., J. Geophys. Res., 115,, D16301 10, 2010.
• Laube, J.C. et al.: on HFC-227ea ... in the atmosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 10, 7675-7697, 2010.
• Köppe, M. et al.: on Origin of aerosol ... from cluster analysis of CARIBIC data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 8413-8430, 2009.
• Schuck et al., on ...Indian summer monsoon plume, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2010
• Heue et al., on Kasatochi volcanic SO2 plume, now open for discussion: Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 2010
• Schuck et al., GHG anal. of air samples collected onboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2, 2009
• Martinsson et al., Influence of the 2008 Kasatochi volcanic eruption on sulf. and carb. aerosol const. in the lower strat., GRL, 36, 2009
• Assonov et al., 2 papers: CO2 isotope anal. - CARIBIC 1 and 2, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 23, 2009
• Weigelt et al., on:Influence of clouds on aerosol particles..., JGR, 114, 2009
• Nguyen et al., on: Chem. comp. & morphology of indiv. aerosol particles, JGR, 113, 2008
• Slemr et al., on: Gaseous mercury distr. in the UTLS . . . ACPD 2008
• Hermann et al., Submicrometer aerosol particle distrib. in the upper troposph. over the mid-latitude North Atlantic . . . Tellus B, 2008
• Brenninkmeijer et al., The new CARIBIC system ACP, 2007
Latest flights:
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Coordinator of CARIBIC:
Dr. Carl A.M. Brenninkmeijer,
Contact: carl.brenninkmeijer@mpic.de

 

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