The CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container) Aircraft System for Detailed, Long-Term, Global-Scale Measurement of Trace Gases and Aerosol in a Changing Atmosphere

BRENNINKMEIJER C.a.m.
SLEMR Franz
SCHUCK Tanja
SCHARFFE Dieter
KOEPPEL C.
PUPEK Martin
JOECKEL Patrick
LELIEVELD Jos
CRUTZEN Paul
RHEE Tae Siek
HERMANN Markus
WEIGELT Andreas
REICHELT Manuela
HEINTZENBERG Jost
ZAHN A.
SPRUNG Detlev
FISCHER Herbert
ZIEREIS Helmut
SCHLAGER Hans
SCHUMANN Ulrich
DIX Barbara
FRIESS U.
PLATT U.
EBINGHAUS Ralf
MARTINSSON Bengt
NGUYEN Hung N.
ORAM David
O SULLIVAN Debbie
PENKETT Stuart
VAN VELTHOVEN Peter
ROECKMANN Thomas
PIETERSE Gerben
ASSONOV SERGEY
RAMONET Michel
XUEREF-REMY Irene
CIAIS Philippe
REIMANN Stefan
VOLLMER Martin
LEUENBERGER Markus
VALENTINO Francesco Luca

Publication date

November 2007

Publisher

IGAC Core Project Office, Research Center for Environmental Change, Academia Sinica

Abstract

The CARIBIC (Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container) involves monthly deployment of an automated atmospheric observatory inside a container on board of Lufthansa Airbus A340-600. The project is run by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, Germany) with a contribution from several institutes. IRMM's contribution starts in 2007, by measuring CO2 isotope composition in the upper troposphere (no data presented in the paper). The paper describes the current status of the project and gives examples of this observational approach.JRC.D.4-Isotope measurement