News
Year 2018
- August:
Flights completed:
July 29 - Aug 01: Flights to Tokyo and Shanghai
- May:
Flights completed:
May 15 - May 18: Flights to Mexico City and Tokyo
- March:
Flights completed:
Mar 22 - Mar 23: Flights to Denver and back to Munich
- Januar:
Flights completed:
Jan 25 - Jan 26: Flights to Cape Town and back to Munich
Year 2017
- December:
IAGOS CARIBIC is back! First flights to Seoul and Cape Town in December 2017 succesfully completed!!
- June:
puplications:
Weimer et al. : A new module for trace gas emissions in ICON-ART 2.0:A sensitivity study focusing on acetone emissions and concentrations, Geosci.
- April:
puplications:
Feng, L. et al. : Consistent regional fluxes of CH4 and CO2 inferred from GOSAT proxy XCH4 : XCO2 retrievals, 2010–2014, Atmos. Chem. Phys.
- March:
technique:
EMI Test of the modified IAGOS CARIBIC container succesfully completed!
YEAR 2016
- December:
several new publications - please follow link
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April:
Start of the IAGOS CARIBIC container modification (Modification C)
5 new instruments will be implemented including a slot for IAGOS Core packages 2 and a cavity ringdown instrument for measuring nitrogen oxides NO3, N2O5, and NO2
- February:
Johan Friberg had a successful defense of his thesis "Studies of Volcanic Influence on Aerosols, Clouds and Climate", at Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
congratulation!
Flights completed:
02. Feb 14 - Feb 17: Flights to Cape Town and São Paulo
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January:
Flights completed:
01. Jan 12 - Jan 15: Flights to Cape Town and São Paulo
publication:
Zhang, Y., J. et al.: Observed decrease in atmospheric mercury explained by global decline in anthropogenic emissions, PNAS
YEAR 2015
several new publications - please follow link
- November/December:
Flights completed:
10. Nov 30 - Dec 03: CPT/GRU
- October:
Flights completed:
09. Oct 05 - Oct 08: LAX/GRU
- August:
Flights completed:
08. AUG 17 - AUG 20: SFO/GRU
publications:
Friberg, J. et al.
Influence of volcanic eruptions on midlatitude upper tropospheric aerosol and consequences for cirrus clouds, Earth and Space Science 2
- July:
Flights completed:
07. Jul 13 - Jul 16: SFO/GRU
publications:
Press release KIT: "S.M. Andersson et al., Vulkanausbrüche bremsen Klimawandel - vorübergehend"
Flights completed:
06. Jun 16 - Jun 19: SFO/HKG
05. May 19 - May 21: GRU/LAX
May: Andreas Weigelt had a successful defense of his thesis
"An optical particle counter for the regular application onboard a passenger aircraft: instrument modification, characterisation and results from the first year of operation",
at Fakultät für Physik und Geowissenschaften der Universität Leipzig , 2015.
congratulation!
Adam Wisher had a successful defense of his thesis
"A Novel Mass Spectrometer for Atmospheric Measurements and Halocarbons during the CARIBIC and SAMBBA Aircraft Campaigns", University of East Anglia - UEA, 2015.
congratulation!
- April:
Flights completed:
04. April 20 - April 23: HND/MEX
Torsten Gehrlein appointet Technical IAGOS CARIBIC coordinator. Torsten will largely coordinate the operation of the CARIBIC container and will also manage the new server system installed at the KIT.
- March:
Flights completed:
03. March 09 - March 12: SFO/HND
- February:
Flights completed:
02. February 09 - February 12: CPT/SFO
- January:
Four CARIBIC abstracts submitted to
EGU General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 03 – 08 April 2015
Flights completed:
01. January 13 - January 16: SFO/GRU