The CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container) Aircraft System for Detailed, Long-Term, Global-Scale Measurement of Trace Gases and Aerosol in a Changing Atmosphere

The CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container) involves monthly deployment of an automated atmospheric observatory inside a container on board of Lufthansa Airbus A340-600. The project is run by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, Germany) with a contribution from several institutes. IRMM's contribution starts in 2007, by measuring CO2 isotope composition in the upper troposphere (no data presented in the paper). The paper describes the current status of the project and gives examples of this observational approach.

BRENNINKMEIJER C.A.M.;  SLEMR Franz;  SCHUCK Tanja;  SCHARFFE Dieter;  KOEPPEL C.;  PUPEK Martin;  JOECKEL Patrick;  LELIEVELD Jos;  CRUTZEN Paul;  RHEE Tae Siek;  HERMANN Markus;  WEIGELT Andreas;  REICHELT Manuela;  HEINTZENBERG Jost;  ZAHN A.;  SPRUNG Detlev;  FISCHER Herbert;  ZIEREIS Helmut;  SCHLAGER Hans;  SCHUMANN Ulrich;  DIX Barbara;  FRIESS U.;  PLATT U.;  EBINGHAUS Ralf;  MARTINSSON Bengt;  NGUYEN Hung N.;  ORAM David;  O SULLIVAN Debbie;  PENKETT Stuart;  VAN VELTHOVEN Peter;  ROECKMANN Thomas;  PIETERSE Gerben;  ASSONOV Sergey;  RAMONET Michel;  XUEREF-REMY Irene;  CIAIS Philippe;  REIMANN Stefan;  VOLLMER Martin;  LEUENBERGER Markus;  VALENTINO Francesco Luca; 

2007-12-10

IGAC Core Project Office, Research Center for Environmental Change, Academia Sinica

JRC41806

http://www.igac.noaa.gov/newsletter/igac37/Nov_2007_IGAC_37.pdf,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC41806,