Projects

current DLR- und HGF-projects:

project goal contact IPA period funding by

ADM-Aeolus III Validation of the ADM-Aeolus mission Reitebuch 2011-2015 DLR

AerCARE Impacts of aerosol layers on atmosphere and climate Weinzierl 2010-2015 HGF
AEROTROP Impact of aircraft emissions on the heterogeneous chemistry of the tropopoause region Voigt 2007-2013 HGF
CATS Climate-compatible air transport system Schlager 2008-2012 DLR
ESMVal Earth system model validation Eyring 2011-2014 DLR
flexiGuide Flexible air traffic management to reduce noise and air emissions Heimann/Gerz 2011-2014 DLR
IML-2 Integrated modelling of air traffic systems Sausen 2010-2013 DLR
TOPGAL Total performance concept for GBAS based automatic landings Gerz 2010-2012 DLR
VEU Determination of environmental effects of traffic development scenarios Sausen/Heimann 2010-2013 DLR

current third body projects (co-ordinated by IPA):

project goal contact IPA period funding by

ADM-Aeolus Validation of the wind Lidar on ADM-Aeolus Reitebuch 2004-2012 ESA
AIMS Ion Mass Spectrometer for measurements of atmospheric trace gases aboard research aircrafts Voigt 2009-2012 DFG
ClimVal Valididation of climate models Eyring 2012-2015 BMBF
CONCLUSION Formation of contrail clusters in areas with dense airtraffic Unterstraßer 2010-2013 DFG

ECATS Network for an environmentally compatible air transport system Matthes 2005-2012 EU
HCI-MS Mass Spectrometer for measurements of atmospheric trace gases aboard research aircrafts Voigt 2007-2013 HGF
PARTFORM-HALO Influence of deep convection on particle formation and aerosol budget in the free troposphere from airborne observations with HALO Minkin 2011-2014 DFG

PERTRAS Development and use of a perfluorocarbon tracer system for Lagrangian aircraft experiments Schlager 2007-2013 DFG
REACT4C Reducing emissions from aviation by changing trajectories for the benefit of climate Matthes 2010-2012 EU
SFERA Solar Facilities for the European Research Area Mayer 2009-2012 EU
ULTRA Mass spectrometer instrument for measurements of atmospheric ultra-trace gases and ions aboard HALO Schlager 2007-2013 DFG

current third body projects (partnership):

project goal contact IPA period funding by

Aeolus-Algo Developement of L1B algorithms for ADM aeolus Reitebuch 2004-2014 ESA

ALICIA All condition operations and innovative cockpit infrastructure Gerz 2009-2012 EU
AHEAD Advanced Hybrid Engines for Aircraft Development Grewe 2011-2014 EU

CHARM-F Airborne observations of the long-lived atmospheric species such as the carbon dioxide and methane Ehret 2009-2012 BMBF
CLIMSLIP Determination of snow albedo by remote sensing Minikin 2010-2012 BMBF
DELICAT Development of an airborne UV Lidar for the detection of Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) Vrancken/Ehret 2008-2012 EU
DRAGON-3 Promoting the cooperation between Europe and China in the field of Earth observation Reitebuch 2012-2014 ESA ESRIN

ECV-Clouds Globale Wolkenklimatologie aus Satellitendaten Mannstein 2010-2013 DWD
EMBRACE Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change Eyring 2011-2014 EU FP7
ENES-INFRA Infrastruktur für das Europäische Netzwerk zur Erdsystem-Modellierung Eyring 2009-2012 EU
EWENT Extreme Weather impacts on European Networks of Transport Gerz 2009-2012 EU
FAIR Assessing the climate impact of air traffic using conventional or biofuel Burkhardt/Grewe 2011-2013 BMBF
GENESIS-DEC Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations Schlager 2010-2012 EU

Raman converter for efiicient generation of NIR laser radiation Fix 2010-2012 DFG
NPI Feasibility study of a temperature lidar Witschas 2011-2013 ESA

Ozone_cci Climate Change Initiative: ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE OZONE Dameris 2010-2013 ESA

PANDOWAE Predictability And Dynamics Of Weather Systems in the Atlantic-European Sector Dörnbrack 2008-2013 DFG
RECONCILE Enhanced predictability of arctic stratospheric ozone loss and its climate interactions Schlager 2009-2013 EU
SHARP Stratospheric Change and its Role for Climate Prediction Dameris 2009-2012 DFG
SHIVA Stratospheric ozone: Halogen Impacts in a Varying Atmosphere Schlager 2009-2012 EU
STRATO Role of the stratosphere for decade climate forecasts Dameris 2011-2015 BMBF

TEAM_Play Tools Suite for Environmental and Economic Aviation Modelling for Policy Analysis Matthes/Grewe 2010-2012 EU
TRANSPHORM Transport related Air Pollution and Health impacts Hendricks 2010-2013 EU
WakeNet3-Europe Wakenet - the European Thematic Network on Wake Vortex Holzäpfel 2008-2012 EU

terminated projects - research continues:

LagKern/MetStröm - Development of a Langrangian kernel for climate models (Contact: V. Grewe)
LIFCOC - Investigation of the life cycle of deep convection during the COPS measurement campaign (Contact: K. Schmidt)
Wetter und Fliegen - Influence of weather on air traffic (Contact: T. Gerz)
ATTICA - European Assessment of Transport Impacts on Climate Change and Ozone Depletion (Contact: R. Sausen)
EUCAARI - European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality Interactions (Contact: A. Minikin)
UFO (Contact: H. Mannstein)
INCA - Interhemispheric differences in cirrus properties
SeaKLIM - Influence of shipping on the climate
ALPNAP - Air pollution and noise in the Alps
SWERA (Solar- und Windenergieressourcen) - UNEP + GEF
NA-TREC (THORPEX Regional Campaign) - EUMETSAT/EUCOS
COBI (The 'Cold Bias' in General Circulation Models) - BMBF/DEKLIM
METRIC (Metrics of Climate Change) - EU/5FP/EESD
SCENIC (atmospheric impact of possible future fleets of supersonic aircraft) - EU/5FP/GROWTH
CONTRACE (Convective transport into the upper troposphere) - BMBF/AFO2000
KODYACS (Coupled Dynamics and atmospheric chemistry in the stratosphere) - BMBF/AFO2000
CLOUDMAP2 (Parameterisation of cloud properties) - EU/5FP/EESD
VERTIKATOR (vertical exchange and orography) - BMBF/AFO2000
PARTS (Particles in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere and their role in the climate system) - EU/5FP/EESD
I-WAKE (onboard wake vortices detection) - EU/5FP/CSG project
QUANTIFY (Quantify the climate impact of global and european transport system)