Mission: BLUESKY
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Description

Full mission name: BLUESKY

Description:

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only affecting almost every aspect of our daily lives, but also the environment. A clear blue sky without condensation trails and empty streets – this is a typical situation during the Coronavirus lockdown. Traffic, particularly air transport, and industrial production have been reduced worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are fewer aircraft in the air and vehicles on the road in Europe than before the pandemic. Air pollution has dropped by 20 to 40 percent, and daily emissions from aircraft have decreased by up to 85 percent. This means that the atmosphere is much less polluted with emissions from transport and industry. The DLR Falcon is deployed to measure concentrations of trace gases and pollutants in the air over European urban areas and in the flight corridor to North America in a coordinated effort with the HALO mission CAFE-EU. The aim of these research missions is to investigate how reduced emissions from industry and transport are changing atmospheric chemistry and physics.
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Map of the measuring area

Flights

Mission Info

• Start: 2020-05-16
• Stop: 2020-06-03
• Region:
  • Europe
• Begin free data access: 2099-12-31
• Website:

Data Origin

Genesis of the data (see glossary).

Instruments

1. Platform HALO
   • Instrument CAS-DPOL
2. Platform Falcon
   • Instrument AIMS
   • Instrument MA-VI

Models

No model specified.

Available datasets