CIRRUS - Remote Sensing
A HALO mission to investigate water vapour and cirrus clouds in the lowermost stratosphere
HALO - The High Altitude and LOng Range Research Aircraft is the new Research Aircraft for atmospheric research and earth observation of the German Science Community.
The CIRRUS Remote Sensing mission aims to investigate the vertical structure and composition of the lower most stratosphere from the subtropical jet to polar latitudes and the underlying processes. The mission will quantify the role of fast quasi-horizontal in-mixing of air originating from the tropical troposphere for the water vapor budget and cirrus cloud occurrence in the lowermost stratosphere. It will provide unique 3-D observations of stratosphere-troposphere exchange structures and will close the observational gap between synoptic-scale structures resolved by current satellite instruments and small-scale features resolved by in-situ instruments.
Coordination: Prof. Martin Riese, Dr. Martin Kaufmann
Contact: <management AT cirrus DASH rs DOT de>
PIs of the scientific intrumentation may subscribe to <info AT cirrus DASH rs DOT de>