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Earth Observation


With the help of remote sensing satellites, scientists receive information on the status and variations of the Earth system. Only if these data are available can the Earth’s climate and environmental...
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Living Planet


With its "Living Planet" earth observation program the European Space Agency keeps track of global environmental change. Basis of the program is a series of special type of satellites called Earth Exp...
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SCIAMACHY Book Receives Award


In March 2002 SCIAMACHY was launched into low earth orbit on board the ENVISAT satellite. Since then the instrument—developed and provided by the space agencies of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium...
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Measurement flights on the formation of ozone by thunderstorms


Thunderstorms have a significant effect on the formation of ozone. Nitrogen oxide is produced as a result of lightning; this in turn yields ozone at altitudes of 10 kilometres. Strong updraughts in th...
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New findings about the arctic ozone layer


As a major finding of the EU project RECONCILE, which was completed in February 2013, it is expected that, according to recent measurements, the ozone layer over the North Pole should recover by the e...
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Balloon in the Sky: Onset of BHEA measurement campaign to improve climate models


The first measurement balloons are in the air, and by April 30, 2012 a total of 90 of these climate probes will be successively launched on a search for data. Starting from Oberpfaffenhofen, their pur...
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Increase of Arctic pollution due to climate change – IPA investigates emission sources in the Arctic


Impacts of global warming lead to an increase of pollution import into the polar region, as well as to an enhancement of local emissions in the Arctic. Since the 1960s, the Arctic Ocean ice cover has ...
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Polarimetric Doppler radar (POLDIRAD)


Polarimetric Doppler radar (POLDIRAD)Measurements of the Doppler velocity are meanwhile standard for operational radars. Only a few radars provide the capability of polarization diversity.
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Pre-launch campaign in Iceland for the ADM-Aeolus satellite mission


Scientists from the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics travelled to Iceland for the last of a series of DLR-led technology demonstration campaigns for ESA’s meteorological satellite mission, ADM-Aeo...
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