research airplane HALO

In August and September 2022, the HALO research aircraft is on mission over Canada. Also on board is Dr. habil. Christoph Gerbig, group leader at the MPI for Biogeochemistry. Together with researchers from DLR, the University of Bremen and LMU Munich, the scientists want to find out more about the natural and anthropogenic sources and sinks of methane and carbon dioxide. The CoMet 2.0 Arctic mission will also test new instruments for measuring greenhouse gases. more

Over the past decade, the German atmospheric research aircraft HALO has flown between 87 degrees north over the Arctic Ocean and 65 degrees south over Antarctica. HALO's logbook now counts 23 missions across all oceans and continents: more than 2,000 flight hours in the air for research at altitudes of up to 15 kilometers. more