Projects

current DLR- und HGF-projects:

project	goal	contact IPA	period	funding by
ADM-Aeolus III	Validation of the ADM-Aeolus mission	Reitebuch	2011-2018	DLR
AEROCON	Aircraft Effects on Clouds and Climate	Voigt	2015-2020	HGF
ALIMA	Development and deployment of an airborne lidar for studying gravity wave dynamics	Kaifler	2013-2018	DLR
ATLAs	Advanced Technology Long-range Aircraft-concepts	Dahlmann, Grewe	2016-2019	DLR
CORAL	Continuous lidar measurements of gravity waves in the middle atmosphere	Kaifler	2015-2018	HGF
ECLIF	Biofuel impact on contrail and climate	Schlager	2014-2018	DLR
HGF-ESM	Advanced Earth System Modelling Capacity (ESM)	Sausen	2017-2020	HGF
KliSAW	Climate relevant traces, aerosols and clouds	Dameris	2015-2019	DLR
KonTeKst	Climate Impact Assessment of short-range aircraft	Grewe	2016-2018	DLR
MACClim	The role of middle atmosphere in the changing climate	Garny	2015-2020	HGF
URMO	Urban Mobility	Schady	2018-2020	DLR
WW-ATM	World-Wide Air Traffic Management	Gerz	2016-2019	DLR

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

project	goal	contact IPA	period	funding by
AIRPSACE	Aircraft remote sensing of greenhouse gases with combined passive and active instruments	Fix	2017-2020	BMBF
ATM4E	ATM & Environment (SESAR2020)	Matthes	2016-2018	EU (SESAR 2020, ER)
CIRRUS-HL	Climate impact of high latitude cirrus	Voigt	2017-2021	DLR/DFG
CMIP6-Chemie	Current and future national contribution to IPCC/AR with focus atmospheric chemistry: CMIP6 and AerChemMIP Simulations with EMAC	Jöckel	2016-2020	BMBF
COMET	Carbon Dioxide and Methane Mission	Fix	2016-2019	DFG
Eval4CMIP	Advanced Earth System Model Evaluation for CMIP (EVal4CMIP)	Eyring	2017-2022	HGF
FormIC	Climate impact of formation flight	Grewe	2016-2019	LuFo/BMWi
HD(CP)2-S3	Anvil Cirrus and Stratiform Convective Outflow	Burkhardt	2016-2019	BMBF-HD(CP)2
MERLIN	MERLIN Phase C/D Technolgy Support	Fix	2017-2021	Airbus
PACOG	Study of gravity wave processes focusing on ground based lidar observations	Rapp	2014-2020	DFG Forschergruppe MS-GWAVES
LIPS	Weather-dependent sound field in the vicinity of wind turbines	Gerz, Heimann	2013-2018	BMU
LOC	Life Cycle of Convection/Dissertation	Tafferner, Zöbisch	2016-2018	DWD
WindVAL II	Airborne Campaign WindVAL II in the frame of NAWDEX for preparation of ADM-Aeolus validation	Reitebuch	2016-2018	ESA

current third body projects (partnership):

project	goal	contact IPA	period	funding by
Aeolus Algorithmen	Developement of L1B algorithms for ADM aeolus	Reitebuch	2014-2018	ESA
A-LIFE	Absorbing aerosol layers in a changing climate: aging, lifetime and dynamics	Weinzierl	2015-2020	EU
ARA	Atmospheric impact of spacecraft demise	Grewe	2016-2018	ESA
ARISE-2	Ground based lidar observations of convective gravity waves	Rapp	2015-2018	EU Horizon 2020
BEniVer	Energy transition in the transport sector - effects on air quality and climate	Hendricks	2018-2022	BMWi
C3S-511	Scientific Quality Assessment and Report for ECVs	Eyring	2017-2021	Copernicus Climate Change Services
C3S-MAGIC	C3S - Metrics and Access to Global Indices for Climate Projections	Eyring	2016-2019	Copernicus Climate Change Services
City-3DO	Three-Dimensional Observation of Atmospheric Processes in Cities	Roiger	2016-2019	BMBF
CMIP6-DICAD-TP2	Provision of the national contribution to the IPCC/AR6 database and support of CMIP6 activities in Germany	Eyring	2016-2020	BMBF
CRESCENDO	Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, Knowledge, Dissemination and Outreach	Eyring	2015-2020	EU Horizon 2020
CSS	Study on Spectral sizing of CO2 Observations	Butz	2017-2018	ESA
DECOR	Impact of dynamics on the trace gas distribution in the UTLS	Jurkat/Voigt	2016-2020	DFG
DFWind	German Research Platform for wind energy, Phase 1+	Gerz	2016-2019	BMWi
DRAGON-4	Promoting the cooperation between Europe and China in the field of Earth observation	Reitebuch	2017-2020	ESA
ECARS	Consultation project to boost INOE’s research capacity in the domain of atmospheric remote sensing and create a pole of excellence in East Europe	Wirth	2016-2018	EU
EUNADICS-AV	European Natural Airborne Disaster Information and Coordination System for Aviation	Graf	2017-2019	EU
HD(CP) 2 Model Diagnostics	Enhancements of on-line diagnostics, extension of a trajectory tool in combination with feature tracking	Kern	2016-2019	BMBF
HOLDON	HgCdte APD Optimization for Lidar Detection Of greeNhouse gases (HOLDON): Design and development of a cutting-edge photon noise limited lidar detection chain	Wirth/Fix	2018-2022	EU
IAGOS-D	Infrastructure to measure the composition of the atmosphere with instrumented aircraft	Ziereis	2012-2019	BMBF
MERLIN	MERLIN satellite mission for lidar remote sensing of methane	Ehret	2014-2020	Industrie
Ozone_cci	Climate Change Initiative: ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE OZONE	Dameris	2010-2017	ESA
MiKlip-STRATO	Role of the stratosphere for decade climate forecasts	Dameris	2011-2018	BMBF
PNOWWA	Probabilistic Nowcasting of Winter Weather for Airports	Hagen	2016-2018	EU
RUMBLE	Sonic boom	Schady	2017-2019	EU Horizon 2020
SESAR 2020 PJ02	Optimised wake vortex separations	Holzäpfel	2016-2019	EU
SESAR 2020 PJ18	Weather and climate sensitivity for aircraft trajectories	Gerz/Matthes	2016-2019	EU
StratoClim	Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better climate predictions	Dameris/Schlager	2013-2018	EU
VirES for Aeolus	Visualisation and Analyses of ADM-Aeolus data	Reitebuch	2017-2019	ESA
WAVE APP	Wake vortex encounter awareness application	Holzäpfel	2017-2018	NRC Canada

terminated projects - research continues:

TeFiS - Remote Sensing of volcano ash with MSG-SEVIRI (Graf)
GW-LCYCLE - Investigation of the life cycle of gravity waves (Rapp)
VEU-2 - Determination of environmental effects of traffic development scenarios (Sausen)
FORUM-AE - Aviation, emissions and environmental impacts (Matthes)
WeCare - Climate compatible and ecologically efficient aviation (Grewe)
ML-CIRRUS - HALO Mission on Mid Latitude Cirrus and Contrail Cirrus (Voigt)
HAIC - High Altitude Ice Crystals (Voigt)
HOLAS - Pulsed Holmium-Laser for Atmospheric CO2 Monitoring (Fix)
FutureFuels - Liquid energy for electricity, heat and global transport (Kärcher)
ESA CMUG - Evaluating and Benchmarking Earth System Models with ESA CCI data (Eyring)
IS-ENES2 - Infrastructure for the European Network of Earth System Modelling (Eyring, Jöckel)
MET4LOWW - MET-Potenziale für das Arrival und Departure Management (Holzäfpel)
L-bows - Land-Based and Onboard Wake Systems (Holzäpfel)
SHARP-BDC - Role of the Brewer-Dobson circulation (Dameris)
SHARP-STC - Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling (Dameris)
VolcATS - Volcanic ash impact on the air transport system (Schlager)
CCNC - Investment project: cloud condensation nucleus counter (Weinzierl)
SALTRACE - Saharan aerosol long-range transport and aerosol-cloud interaction experiment (Weinzierl)
AerCARE - Impacts of aerosol layers on atmosphere and climate (Weinzierl)
COSMO-MUC - Adapting the COSMO model for airport MUC (Sölch)
CONCLUSION - Formation of contrail clusters in areas with dense airtraffic (Unterstraßer)
EMBRACE - Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change (Eyring)
MiKlip-FLAGSHIP - Feedback of a limited-area model to the global scale implemented for decadal hind-casts and projections (Jöckel)
SHARP-WV - Stratospheric water vapour and climate change (Jöckel)
EnviTrans - Centre of Excellence Environment and Transport (Sausen)
HIKARI - High speed key technologies for future air transport (Grewe)
ESMVal - Earth system model validation (Eyring)
ClimVal - Evaluation of climate models (Eyring)
AEROTROP - Impact of aircraft emissions on atmospheric chemistry and climate (Voigt)
UFO - Wind measurement in airport vicinity (Hagen)
Cb-Global - Global thunderstorm nowcasting (Gerz)
flexiGuide - Flexible air traffic management to reduce noise and air emissions (Heimann/Gerz)
PANDOWAE - Predictability And Dynamics Of Weather Systems in the Atlantic-European Sector (Dörnbrack)
TRANSPHORM - Transport related Air Pollution and Health impacts (Hendricks)
DELICAT - Development of an airborne UV Lidar for the detection of Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) (G. Ehret, P. Vrancken)
ITWS - Integrated Terminal Weather System (Contact: A. Tafferner)
FAIR - Assessing the climate impact of air traffic using conventional or biofuel (Contace: U. Burkhardt)
REACT4C - Reducing emissions from aviation by changing trajectories for the benefit of climate (Contact: S. Matthes)
CATS - Climate-compatible air transport system (Contact: Schlager)
ADM-Aeolus - Validation of the wind Lidar on ADM-Aeolus (Contact: O. Reitebuch)
CHARM-F - Airborne observations of the long-lived atmospheric species such as the carbon dioxide and methane (Contact: G. Ehret)
Raman converter for efiicient generation of NIR laser radiation (Contact: A. Fix)
TEAM_Play - Tools Suite for Environmental and Economic Aviation Modelling for Policy Analysis (Contact: S. Matthes, V. Grewe)
LagKern/MetStröm - Development of a Langrangian kernel for climate models (Contact: V. Grewe)
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)
INCA - Interhemispheric differences in cirrus properties
SeaKLIM - Influence of shipping on the climate
ALPNAP - Air pollution and noise in the Alps
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
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

QUANTIFY (Quantify the climate impact of global and european transport system)