Aerosol and Cloud Chemistry  --  Projects

CONCERT

               

CONtrail and Cirrus ExpeRimenT

CONCERT is an aircraft measurement campaign with the DLR Falcon, coordinated by Christiane Voigt (AEROTROP group).
The campaign was performed between October 20 and November 21, 2008, and was divided into two parts:

- CONCERT CHEMISTRY
- CONCERT 2 CONTRAILS

The location was DLR Oberpfaffenhofen.

The C-ToF-AMS was successfully operated in the Falcon during the 6 flights of the first sub-project (CONCERT-Chemistry). For the second part, the rack space was needed for the DLR-IPA aerosol rack. The instruments of the NOVA group (CIP, CCP, FSSP) were operated thoroughout the whole campaign.

The main question to be answered by the CONCERT project are the following:
- What are microphysical, radiative and chemical properties of contrail-cirrus?
- How do they evolve with contrail age?
- How do they compare to natural cirrus?

Collaboration with:

DLR-IPA (C. Voigt, H. Schlager, A. Dörnbrack, A. Petzold, U. Schumann)
Uni Mainz-IPA (M. Wendisch, H. Eichler)
FZ Jülich (M. Krämer)
Uni Clermont-Ferrand (J.-F. Gayet, C. Gourbeyre)

Instumentation:
- C-ToF-AMS, FSSP, CIP, CCP

People involved:
J. Schmale, J. Schneider, T. Böttger, W. Schneider (C-ToF-AMS)
W. Frey, S. Molleker, C. von Glahn, S. Borrmann (FSSP, CIP, CCP)

Links:
- CONCERT Homepage
- CONCERT Picture gallery
- TV documentations ("Kopfball"):
   - Part 1 (CONCERT)
   - Part 2 (Wind Tunnel)