Premium Podcast: The mission to measure our atmosphere

written by Jake Nelson | April 24, 2024
The HALO platform is a highly modified Gulfstream G550 ultra long-range jet capable of exploring the full extent of the troposphere from the ground up to about 15 km above sea level. (Image: Supplied)

Earlier this year, a German team led a research mission over the Pacific Ocean to collect detailed measurements of the atmosphere, in order to better understand the chemistry of climate.

Using a heavily-modified Gulfstream G550 (pictured), the Chemistry of the Atmosphere: Field Experiment (CAFE) team’s CAFE-Pacific mission flew for up to nine hours at a time over the tropics from Cairns, reaching heights of up to 15km above the Pacific Ocean.

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