List of publications

CARIBIC is funded by the European Commission for S&T (FW 4 and FW 5)
and by the BMBF (Programme AFO 2000). State of November 05, 2008

Reviewed Publications:

Slemr F., R. Ebinghaus, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, M. Hermann, H. H. Kock, B. G. Martinsson, T. Schuck, D. Sprung, P. van Velthoven, A. Zahn, and H. Ziereis, Gaseous mercury distribution in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere observed onboard the CARIBIC passenger aircraft. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 18651-18688, 2008 [APCD website]

Brenninkmeijer C.A.M. and the CARIBIC Team, The CARIBIC aircraft system for detailed, long-term, global-scale measurement of trace gases and aerosol in a changing atmosphere, IGACtivities Newsletter, No. 37, November 2007 [pdf]

Brenninkmeijer C.A.M. , P. Crutzen, F. Boumard, T. Dauer, B. Dix, R. Ebinghaus, D. Filippi, H. Fischer, H. Franke, U. Frieß, J. Heintzenberg, F. Helleis, M. Hermann, H. H. Kock, C. Koeppel, J. Lelieveld, M. Leuenberger, B. G. Martinsson, S. Miemczyk, H. P. Moret, H. N. Nguyen, P. Nyfeler, D. Oram, D. O'Sullivan, S. Penkett, U. Platt, M. Pupek, M. Ramonet, B. Randa, M. Reichelt, T. S. Rhee, J. Rohwer, K. Rosenfeld, D. Scharffe, H. Schlager, U. Schumann, F. Slemr, D. Sprung, P. Stock, R. Thaler, F. Valentino, P. van Velthoven, A. Waibel, A. Wandel, K. Waschitschek, A. Wiedensohler, I. Xueref-Remy, A. Zahn, U. Zech, and H. Ziereis, Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrumented Container: The new CARIBIC system. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) 2007 [APC website]

Brenninkmeijer C.A.M. et al., Analyzing Atmospheric Trace Gases and Aerosols Using Passenger Aircraft, EOS Trans. AGU, 86, 8, 22 February 2005, pp. 77, 82-83. AGU members check here for [pdf]

Brenninkmeijer C.A.M. et al., CARIBIC - Civil aircraft for global measurement of trace gases and aerosols in the tropopause region, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technology, 16, 1373-1383, 1999.

Dix B., C. Brenninkmeijer, U. Frieß, T. Wagner, and U. Platt, A flying laboratory: DOAS measurements as part of the CARIBIC aircraft project, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 09139, 2005. [pdf]

Ebinghaus R., F. Slemr, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, P. van Velthoven, A. Zahn, M. Hermann, D. A. O'Sullivan, and D. E. Oram, Emissions of gaseous mercury from biomass burning in South America in 2005 observed during CARIBIC flights, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34, L08813, doi:10.1029/2006GL028866, 2007. [pdf]

Gloor M., E. Dlugokencky, C. Brenninkmeijer, L. Horowitz, D. F. Hurst, G. Dutton, C. Crevoisier, T. Machida, P. Tans, 3D SF₆ data and tropospheric transport simulations: 1. Signals, modeling accuracy, and implications for inverse modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D15112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007973, 2007.

Heintzenberg, J., M. Herman, B. G. Martinsson, and G. Papaspiropoulos. Number and sulfur derived 3-parameter aerosol size distributions in the tropopause region from CARIBIC flights between Germany and the Indic. J. Aerosol Sci. 33, 595-608, 2002. [pdf] - [zip] - See here Table 1 of above paper

Heintzenberg J., Hermann M., and Theiss D., Out of Africa: High aerosol concentrations in the upper troposphere over Africa, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 3, 1191-1198, 2003. [pdf] - [zip]

Hermann, M., C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, F. Slemr, J. Heintzenberg, B. G. Martinsson, H. Schlager, P. F. J. van Velthoven, A. Wiedensohler, A. Zahn, H. Ziereis, Submicrometer aerosol particle distributions in the upper troposphere over the mid-latitude North Atlantic – results from the third route of ‘CARIBIC’, Tellus B Vol. 60 Issue 1 pp 106-117, February 2008.

Hermann, M., F.Stratmann, M. Wilck, and A. Wiedensohler, Sampling characteristics of an aircraft-borne aerosol inlet system, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.18, 7-19, 2001.

Hermann, M. and A. Wiedensohler, Counting efficiency of condensation particle counters at low-pressures with illustrative data from the upper troposphere, J. Aerosol Sci. 32, 975-99, 2001. [pdf] - [zip]

Hermann, M., J. Heintzenberg, A. Wiedensohler, A. Zahn, G. Heinrich, and C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, Meridional distributions of aerosol particle number concentrations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere obtained by Civil Aircraft for Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container (CARIBIC) flights. J. Geophys. Res., 108, NO. D3, 4114-4130, doi:10.1029/2001JD001077, 2003. [pdf] - [zip]

Hermann, M., S. Adler, R. Caldow, F. Stratmann, and A. Wiedensohler, Pressure-dependend efficiency of a condensation particle counter operated with FC-43 as working fluid, J. Aerosol Sci., 36, 1322-1337, 2005

Hermann, M., C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, F. Slemr, J. Heintzenberg, B. G. Martinsson, H. Schlager, P. F. J. van Velthoven, A. Wiedensohler, A. Zahn, and H. Ziereis, Submicrometer aerosol particle distributions in the upper troposphere over the mid-latitude north atlantic - results from the third route of "caribic" submitted to Tellus B, April 2007

Krol, M. C., J. Lelieveld, D. E. Oram, G. A. Sturrock, S. A. Penkett, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, V. Gros, J. Williams & H. A. Scheeren, Continuing emissions of methylchloroform from Europe, Nature, VOL 421, 131-135, 2003. [pdf] - [zip]

Martinsson, B.G., G. Papaspiropoulos, J. Heintzenberg, and M. Hermann. Fine mode particulate sulphur in the tropopause region measured from intercontinental flights (CARIBIC), Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1175-1178, 2001. [pdf] - [zip]

Martinsson, B. G., H. N. Nguyen, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, A. Zahn, J. Heintzenberg, M. Hermann, and P. F. J. van Velthoven, Characteristics and origin of lowermost stratospheric aerosol at northern midlatitudes under volcanically quiescent conditions based on CARIBIC observations, J. Geophys. Res 110, D12201, doi:10.1029/2004JD005644, 2005. [pdf]

Mühle, J., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, T.S. Rhee, F. Slemr, D.E. Oram, S.A. Penkett, and A. Zahn, Biomass burning and fossil fuel signatures in the upper troposphere observed during a CARIBIC flight from Namibia to Germany, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, No.19, 1910, doi:10.1029/2002GL015764, 2002. [pdf] - [zip]

Nguyen, H. N., et al. (2008), Chemical composition and morphology of individual aerosol particles from a CARIBIC flight at 10 km altitude between 50°N and 30°S, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D23209, doi:10.1029/2008JD009956. [pdf]

Nguyen, Hung N. ,Anders Gudmundsson, and Bengt G. Martinsson, Design and Calibration of a Multi-Channel Aerosol Sampler for Tropopause Region Studies from the CARIBIC Platform, Aerosol Science and Technology, 40:649-655, 2006, ISSN: 0278-6826 print / 1521-7388 online, DOI: 10.1080/02786820600767807 - [pdf]

Papaspiropoulos, G., B. Mentes, P. Kristiansson, and B.G. Martinsson, A high sensitivity elemental analysis methodology for upper tropospheric aerosol, Nucl. Instr. and Meth., B150, 356-362, 1999. [pdf] - [zip]

Papaspiropoulos, G., B.G. Martinsson, A. Zahn, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, M. Hermann, J. Heintzenberg, H. Fischer, and P.F.J. van Velthoven, Aerosol elemental concentrations in the tropopause region from intercontinental flights with the CARIBIC platform, J. Geophys. Res 107, D23, 4671, doi:10.1029/2002JD002344, 2002. [pdf] - [zip]

Peylin, P., F. M. Bréon, S. Serrar, Y. Tiwari, A. Chédin, M. Gloor, T. Machida, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, A. Zahn, and P. Ciais (2007), Evaluation of TOVS space-borne CO₂ estimates using model simulations and aircraft data, J. Geophys. Res, 112, D09313, doi:10.1029/2005JD007018. [pdf]

Rhee, T.S., C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, and T. Röckmann, The overwhelming role of soils in the global atmospheric hydrogen cycle Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 1611-1625, 2006, [pdf]

Rhee, T.S., C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, J. Mühle, P. F. J. van Velthoven, M. Hermann, A. Zahn, D. E. Oram, D. H. Scharffe, C. Koeppel, H. Fischer, and J. Lelieveld, A case study of rapid mixing across the extratropical tropopause based on Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrumented Container (CARIBIC) observations, J. Geophys. Res, 110, D22301, doi:10.1029/2005JD005890, 2005 [pdf]

Sturges, W.T., D.E. Oram, L.J. Carpenter, S.A. Penkett, and A. Engel, Bromoform as a source of stratospheric bromine, Geophys. Res. Lett,. 27, 2081-2084, 2000. [pdf] [zip]

Zahn, A, C.A.M.Brenninkmeijer, M. Maiss, D.H. Scharffe, P.J. Crutzen, M. Hermann, A. Wiedensohler, J. Heintzenberg, H. Güsten, G. Heinrich, H. Fischer, J.W.M. Cuijpers, P.F.J. Van Velthoven., Identification of extratropical two-way troposphere-stratosphere mixing based on CARIBIC measurements of O₃, CO, and ultrafine particles, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 1527-1535, 2000. [pdf] - [zip]

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, P.J. Crutzen, D.D. Parrish, D. Sueper, G. Heinrich, H. Güsten, H. Fischer, M. Hermann, J. Heintzenberg, , Electrical discharge source for tropospheric "ozone-rich transients", J. Geophys. Res. 107, D22, 4638, doi:10.1029/2002JD002345, 2002. [pdf] - [zip]

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, W.A.H. Asman, P.J. Crutzen, G. Heinrich, H. Fischer, J.W.M. Cuijpers, and P.F.J. van Velthoven, The budgets of O₃ and CO in the upper troposphere: CARIBIC passenger aircraft results 1997-2001, J. Geophys. Res.107, D17, 4337, doi:10.1029/2001JD001529, 2002. [pdf] - [zip]

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, New directions: a chemical tropopause defined, Atmos. Environ., 37, 439-440, 2003. [pdf] - [zip]

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, P.F.J. van Velthoven: Passenger aircraft project CARIBIC 1997-2002, Part I: the extratropical chemical tropopause, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 4, 1091-1117, 2004

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, P.F.J. van Velthoven: Passenger aircraft project CARIBIC 1997-2002, Part II: the ventilation of the lowermost stratosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 4, 1119-1150, 2004

Conference Talks /Posters /Proceedings :

Zimmermann P.H., F. Slemr, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, H. Winter, CARIBIC global observations in the WDCC, Presentation at Second International Conference on Earth System Modelling (ICESM), Hamburg, 27.-31. August 2007. [pdf]

Weigelt, A., Hermann, M., van Velthoven, P. F. J., Brenninkmeijer, C. A. M., Heintzenberg, J., and Wiedensohler, A., Influence of clouds on aerosol particle number concentrations in the upper troposphere - results from the CARIBIC project, Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference (EAC), Salzburg, Austria, 9.-14. September, 2007.

Ziereis, H., Schlager, H., Stock, P., Schumann, U., Brenninkmeijer, C.A.M, Slemr, F., Zahn, A., and Hermann, M., Large scale distribution of nitrogen oxides in the UTLS - Results of the NO and NOy measurements during CARIBIC, Presentation at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 15.- 20. April, 2007.

Hermann, M., Jost Heintzenberg, Bengt G. Martinsson, Hung N. Nguyen, Manuela Reichelt, Claudia Timmreck, Andreas Zahn, Helmut Ziereis, and Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer. Global scale aerosol measurements in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere obtained by the civil aircraft based project CARIBIC. JOINT IGAC/CACGP/WMO SYMPOSIUM ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY, Capetown, South Africa, 17-23 September 2006. [pdf]

Hermann, M., Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer, Jost Heintzenberg, Bengt G. Martinsson, Hung N. Nguyen, Manuela Reichelt, Hans Schlager, Franz Slemr, Alfred Wiedensohler, Andreas Zahn, and Helmut Ziereis. Submicrometer Aerosol Particles in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere - Results from the CARIBIC project. International Aerosol Conference, St. Paul, MN, USA, September 10 - 15, 2006

Brenninkmeijer, C.A.M. and Tae Siek Rhee The chemical composition of the SW Asia summer monsoonal jet as observed by repeated CARIBIC aircraft measurements. Invited oral presentation, Joint AGGS Annual Meeting & APHW Second Conference, Singapore, 5-9 July, 2004.

Rhee T.S., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, J. Mühle, P. van Velthoven, H. Fischer, A. Zahn, M. Hermann, D.E. Oram. Rapid Mixing across the Extra-Tropical Tropopause as Observed during a CARIBIC Boeing 767 flight. Poster presentation, SPARC General Assembly, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1-6 August 2004.

Adler, S., Hermann, M., and Wiedensohler, A., Pressure- and temperature-dependent counting efficiency of the CPC 7610 operated with FC-43 as working fluid. Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference 2003, Madrid, J. Aerosol Sci., 34 (Suppl. 1), 2003.

Oram D.E, Halocarbon measurements at UEA, presented at the IHALACE meeting, NOAA-CMDL, November 2003, Boulder, USA.

Penkett, S.A., Probing the composition of the atmosphere over the North Atlantic by the UK Met Office C-130 aircraft and the CARIBIC Boeing-767, presented at the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory on 23 July 2003 and at the NASA Ames Laboratory on 31 July 2003.

Brenninkmeijer, C.A.M. A. Zahn, J.Mühle, T.S. Rhee, P.J. Crutzen, S. Penkett, D. Oram, H. Fischer, J. Heintzenberg and P.J.F. van Velthoven, A Study of the Huge S-S.E. Asian Monsonal Methane Plume Based on CARIBIC Aircraft observations. Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, 10-13 July, 2001.

Hermann, M., G. Papaspiropoulos, A. Wiedensohler, B. G. Martinsson, and J. Heintzenberg. Number concentration and elemental composition of sub-micrometer aerosol particles in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere measured within the CARIBIC project. EGS March 2001, Nice.

Hermann, M., A. Wiedensohler, and J. Heintzenberg, Number concentrations of submicrometer particles at 9-12 km altitude measured within the CARIBIC project. European Aerosol Conference 2001, Leipzig, J. Aerosol Sci., 32 (Suppl. 1), 1049-1050.

Mühle J., Zahn A., Koeppel C., Rhee T. S., Brenninkmeijer C. A. M., Passenger aircraft measurements project CARIBIC: Upper tropospheric non-methane hydrocarbon distributions in the Northern Hemisphere, in :European Geophysical Society XXVI General Assembly, 2001, Nice, France.

Oram D.E, G.A. Sturrock, S.A. Penkett,, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer and A. Zahn. Halocarbon measurements in the UTLS region: Early results from the CARIBIC programme. EGS March 2001, Nice.

Oram D.E., C.E. Reeves, G.A. Sturrock, S.A. Penkett, P.J. Fraser, C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer and A. Zahn. Estimates of Global and Regional Halocarbon Emissions from Measurements on the Cape Grim Air Archive and from the CARIBIC Aircraft Experiment. Emissions of Chemical Species and Aerosols into the Atmosphere. Paris, June 2001.

Papaspiropoulos, P., M.N.A. Karlsson, B.G. Martinsson, M. Hermann, and J. Heintzenberg. Elemental concentrations of fine mode aerosol in the tropopause region. European Aerosol Conference 2001, Leipzig, J. Aerosol Sci., 32 (Suppl. 1), 1041-1042, 2001.

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, P.J. Crutzen, J. Lelieveld, H. Fischer, G. Heinrich, and P.F.J. van Velthoven. Passenger aircraft project CARIBIC: O3-CO tropopause and the ventilation of the lowermost stratosphere. EGS March 2001

Brenninkmeijer, C.A.M., A. Zahn, P.J. Crutzen, J.Heintzenberg, M.Hermann, H.Fischer, G.Heinrich, P.J. van Velthoven, H.Cuijpers, R.Borchers, and D.Oram, Results and status of the aircraft research project CARIBIC, EUROTRACC 2000.

Brenninkmeijer, C.A.M., A. Zahn, P.J. Crutzen, J. Heintzenberg, and H. Fischer. Future development of the CARIBIC passenger aircraft measurement container package for upper tropospheric research, European Workshop, "Aviation, Aerosols, Contrails and Cirrus Clouds" (A²C³), Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany, July 10-12, 2000.

Güsten, H. CARIBIC- a versatile concept for global measurements of trace gases and aeroslol in the tropopause region. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California, 13 September 2000.

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, P.J. Crutzen, G. Heinrich, H. Fischer, O₃ - CO correlations in the tropopause region from CARIBIC flights 1997-2000, 2^nd SPARC General Assembly Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate, Mar del Plata, Argentina, November 6 - 10, 2000.

Zahn, A., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, P.J. Crutzen, G. Heinrich, H. Fischer, J.W.M. Cuijpers, and P.F.J. van Velthoven, Seasonality of subtropical troposphere-to-stratosphere transport based on O₃ - CO interrelationships during CARIBIC, 25^th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society (EGS), Nice (France), 25-29 April, 2000.

Wilck, M., M. Hermann, S. Brühl, and F. Stratmann, Evaporation of sulfuric acid-water particles in an aircraft-borne aerosol sampling system, European Aerosol Conference 1999, Prague, J. Aerosol Sci., 30 (Suppl. 1), 155-156, 1999.

Zahn,A., Passenger aircraft project CARIBIC to study dynamics and chemistry in the upper troposphere and lowermost stratosphere (UT/LS), European Community Advanced Study Course on Atmospheric effects of aircraft emissions in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, ASTAIRE, 22-31 August, 1999, Bergen, Norway, 1999.

Hermann, M., J. Heintzenberg, A. Wiedensohler, Aerosol particle number concentrations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere measured by CARIBIC, European Aerosol Conference 1999, Prague, J. Aerosol Sci., 30 (Suppl. 1), 205-206, 1999.

Hermann, M. F. Stratmann, and A. Wiedensohler, Calibration of an aircraft-borne aerosol inlet system for fine particle measurements, European Aerosol Conference 1999, Prague, J. Aerosol Sci., 30 (Suppl. 1), 153-154, 1999.

Brenninkmeijer, C.A.M., A. Zahn, M. Maiss, P.J. Crutzen, H. Cuijpers, and P.F.J. van Velthoven, The ¹³C, ¹⁴C, and ¹⁸O isotope composition of CO at 10 km between the tropics and the mid-latitudes; results from the CARIBIC project, American Geophysical Union (AGU), fall meeting, San Francicso, 6-10 December, 1998.

Hermann, M. and Wiedensohler, A. (1998) Dependence of the TSI 7610 condensation particle counter on pressure and temperature difference. Poster presented at the International Aerosol Conference 1998, Edinburgh, Great Britain, J. Aerosol Sci. 29 (Suppl. 1), 343-344

Hermann, M. and Wiedensohler, A., Modification and calibration of a TSI 7610 condensation particle counter for high altitude airborne measurements. Presentation at the European Aerosol Conference 1996, Delft, J. Aerosol Sci. 27 (Suppl. 1), 303-304, 1996

Borchers, R., C.A.M. Brenninkmeijer, A. Jordan, and A. Zahn. Latitudinal distribution of halocarbons in the northern hemisphere derived from aicraft measurements within the project CARIBIC.

Doctoral theses:

Barbara Dix: Spectroscopic Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases on Long-Distance Flights. Ph.D. thesis. University Heidelberg, Germany, 2007. [pdf]

Hung N. Nguyen: Chemical and Morphological Characterisation of Aerosol Particles in the Tropopause Region. Ph.D. thesis. Lund University, Sweden, 2007. [pdf]

Manuela Reichelt: Entwicklung und atmosphärische Anwendung eines optischen Partikelzählers für Tropopausenbedingungen. Ph.D. thesis. University Leipzig, Germany, 2007.

Jens Mühle: GC/MS-Meßsystem für Nicht-Methan-Kohlenwasserstoffe - Spurengasuntersuchungen im Tropopausenbereich und in der maritimen Grenzschicht. Dissertation, University of Mainz, Germany, 2002.

Giorgos Papaspiropoulos: Studies of Tropospheric and Stratospheric Aerosol using Ion Beam Analysis. Ph.D. thesis. University of Lund, Sweden, 2001.

Markus Hermann: Development and application of an aerosol measurement system for use on commercial aircraft, Ph. D. thesis, University Leipzig, Germany, 2000.

Master theses:

Andreas Weigelt: Modifikation von Aerosolpartikeln in der oberen Troposphäre durch Wolken. MSc. Thesis, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig Institut für Meteorologie, Universität Leipzig, Germany, 2007.

Adler, S.: Untersuchung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Kondensationspartikelzählern mit FC-43 als Arbeitssubstanz. MSc. Thesis, Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), Germany, 2003.

Rockmann, A.: Modifikation und Kalibrierung eines Rußphotometers fr die Messung von Rußproben eines automatischen Aerosolprobensammlers auf einem kommerziellen Flugzeug. MSc. Thesis, Westsähsische Hochschule Zwickau (FH), Germany, 1999.

CARIBIC Database:

CARIBIC in the WDCC : Peter Zimmermann in cooperation with Modelle & Daten group at Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg

General information:

Brochure (10 pp) in German and English CARIBIC, EOS [pdf] - [zip]

CARIBIC is part of the CORSAIRE cluster

CARIBIC WEBSITE:
www.caribic-atmospheric.com / www.caribic-atmospheric.org / www.caribic.de
Design: Peter H. Zimmermann.