Projects

current DLR- und HGF-projects:

project	goal	contact IPA	period	funding by
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	2010-2012	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
Wetter und Fliegen	Influence of weather on air traffic	Gerz	2008-2011	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	2004-2011	ESA
AIMS	Ion Mass Spectrometer for measurements of atmospheric trace gases aboard research aircrafts	Voigt	2009-2012	DFG
ATTICA	European Assessment of Transport Impacts on Climate Change and Ozone Depletion	Sausen		EU
ClimVal	Valididation of climate models	Eyring	2012-2015	BMBF
ECATS	Network for an environmentally compatible air transport system	Matthes	2005-2012	EU
HALO	High Altitude Long Range Research Aircraft	Ziereis	2004-2011	BMBF
HCI-MS	Mass Spectrometer for measurements of atmospheric trace gases aboard research aircrafts	Voigt	2007-2013	HGF
INTAS	Integrated analysis of long-range pollution transport to mid- and high- latitudes over Europe	Schlager	2008-2011	DFG
LagKern/MetStröm	Development of a Langrangian kernel for climate models	Grewe	2009-2011	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	2009-2011	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
ALICIA	All condition operations and innovative cockpit infrastructure	Gerz	2009-2012	EU
CHARM-F	Airborne observations of the long-lived atmospheric species such as the carbon dioxide and methane	Ehret	2009-2011	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-2	Cooperation of Europe and China in earth observation with remote sensing	Reitebuch	2009-2011	ESA ESRIN
DRIHMS	Distributed research infrastructure for hydro-meteorology study	Craig/Tafferner	2009-2011	EU
ECV-Clouds	Globale Wolkenklimatologie aus Satellitendaten	Mannstein	2010-2013	DWD
EMBRACE	Fehlerreduzierung bei Erdsystemmodellen zur Abschätzung abripter Klimaänderungen	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
IAGOS-ERI	In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System	Petzold	2008-2011	EU
	Raman converter for efiicient generation of NIR laser radiation	Fix	2010-2012	DFG
LIFCOC	Investigation of the life cycle of deep convection during the COPS measurement campaign	Schmidt	2009-2011	DFG
PANDOWAE	Predictability And Dynamics Of Weather Systems in the Atlantic-European Sector	Weissmann	2008-2011	DFG
ECATS	Environmentally compatible airtraffic system	Matthes	2005-10	EU
RECONCILE	Enhanced predictability of arctic stratospheric ozone loss and its climate interactions	Schlager	2009-2013	EU
SAMUM	Saharan mineral dust experiment	Petzold	2004-2011	DFG
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
TAMS	Total Airport Management Suite	Gerz	2008-2011	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:

• 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)