Mission: CIRRUS-HL
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Description

Full mission name: CIRRUS in High Latitudes

Description:

The CIRRUS-HL experiment uses the research aircraft HALO to gain new insights into characteristics and climate impact of ice clouds in high latitudes and on the aviation effect on cirrus. Most rapid climate change occurs in high latitudes in regions where ice clouds exert a substantial positive forcing onto surface temperatures. However, direct observations of cirrus properties in high latitudes and their variability are sparse. While contrail cirrus contribute the largest share to the climate impact from aviation, the aviation aerosol effects on those ice clouds are poorly constrained. CIRRUS-HL combines use state-of-the-art cloud probes, and novel ice residual, aerosol, trace gas and radiation instruments and a lidar to investigate nucleation, life cycle and radiative impact of ice clouds in high latitudes and of aviation effects on clouds. The aircraft observations are accompanied by remote sensing from satellite and from ground and by numerical simulations with global and process-based models. The mission takes place in June and July 2021 from Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.

Map of the measuring area

Flights

Mission Info

• Start: 2021-06-08
• Stop: 2021-07-11
• Region:
  • Europe › Germany › Bayern
• Begin free data access: 2026-07-10
• Website: https://cirrus-hl.de
• Project: The mission CIRRUS-HL is associated with the project SPP 1294 HALO.

Data Origin

Genesis of the data (see glossary).

Instruments

1. Platform HALO
   • Instrument HALO-CVI
   • Instrument BAHAMAS
   • Instrument FISH
   • Instrument NIXE-CAPS
   • Instrument BACARDI
   • Instrument AENEAS
   • Instrument WARAN
   • Instrument HERA
   • Instrument CCP-CIPg
   • Instrument FAIRO
   • Instrument Picarro_CRDS
   • Instrument FAIRO-CI
   • Instrument PIP
   • Instrument ALABAMA
   • Instrument AIMS
   • Instrument MTP
   • Instrument CAS-DPOL_CCP-CIPg
   • Instrument not specified.
   • Instrument AMETYST-CPC
   • Instrument WALES
   • Instrument CCP-PIP

Models

1. Model type HALO
   • Model Merged

Available datasets