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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 14 2018, @10:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the holding-my-breath dept.

At 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning the High-Altitude and Long-Range Research Aircraft (HALO) left the German Aerospace Center Airbase in Oberpfaffenhofen, and took off to the Cape Verde Islands.

This marked the official beginning of the Chemistry of the Atmosphere Field Experiment in Africa (CAFE-Africa)—a mission coordinated by the Atmospheric Chemistry Department of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz.

The objective of the research mission is to study the influence of the massive biomass burning emissions from Africa on the atmospheric composition and oxidation capacity over the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean. It is expected that these emissions combine with the strongly increasing urban-industrial pollution and with desert dust from the Sahara and may thus change chemically and physically.

The mission will be conducted out of Sal on the Cape Verde Islands and will continue until September 7th, 2018. During these five weeks the HALO research aircraft will fly along the coast and over several countries in Africa to collect unique data, needed for the understanding of long-distance pollution transport over the Atlantic and further areas downwind.


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    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @12:41AM (#721620)

    I used to come to SoylentNews for the comments. Then I kept coming to SoylentNews for the People. But then I found SoylentGreen, and it was not people. So now I hardly ever come to SoylentNews. Anymore.

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