research airplane HALO

For now five years the unique research aircraft HALO (High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft) is set to target greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Halo operations range from the entry in the stratosphere, overflying the North and South poles up to collecting climate data in the most remote areas of the globe. During the HALO symposium on March 14, 2017 at the German Aerospace Center DLR the manifold and cross-linked HALO research projects will be presented. Ministerial officials will catch up on the results of the past 18 missions as well as on the planned missions up to the year 2022. mehr

A first test mission with the Jena Instrument for Greenhouse Gases (JIG) on board of the German High Altitude and LOng Range (HALO) research aircraft was completed successfully in May 2015. The mission was conducted to test an active remote sensing system measuring column abundances of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄), developed by the LIDAR group at the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics. mehr