Atmospheric and Earth System Research with HALO

(High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft)

In Review and Submitted Scientific Journal-Publications

within the framework of the HALO DFG SPP 1294

2026

Groß, S., Ewald, F., Stevens, B., Wirth, M., Dekoutsidis, G., Ehrlich, A., Kouklaki, D., Krüger, K., Rosenburg, S., Volkmer, L., von Bismark, J., Hirsch, L., Luebke, A. E., Marinou, E., Mayer, B., Pinol Sole, M., Wendisch, M., Windmiller, J., Amiridis, V., Koopman, R., Kubota, T., and Rapp, M.: Persistent EarthCARE underflight studies of the ITCZ and organized convection (PERCUSION): Contribution to EarthCARE Validation, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2026-112, 2026. (Received: 08 Jan 2026 – Discussion started: 16 Jan 2026)


2025

Weber, A., Hoffmann, F., and Mayer, B.: Quasi-Lagrangian observations of cloud transitions during the initial phase of marine cold air outbreaks in the Arctic – Part 2: Vertical cloud structure, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2025-5832, 2025. (Received: 24 Nov 2025 – Discussion started: 16 Dec 2025)

Kessler, S., Emig, N., Lachnitt, H.-C., Kunkel, D., Bozem, H., Bense, V.,  Joppe, P.,  Kaluza, T., Grooß, J.U.,  Zahn, A., Ziereis, H., Riese, M., and Hoor, P.: Biomass burning in Australia: No evidence for carbonyl sulfide (OCS) enhancement in fire plumes from in-situ measurements during SouthTRAC, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett., 2025.

Smoydzin, L., Bense, V., Bozem, H., Joppe, P., Kunkel, D., Lachnitt, H.-C., Tost, H., Zahn, A., Ziereis, H., Riese, M., and Hoor, P.: Impact of South American biomass burning emissions on elevated South Atlantic upper tropospheric ozone, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2025-5372, 2025. (Received: 30 Oct 2025 – Discussion started: 11 Dec 2025)

Umbarkar, M., Kunkel, D., Miltenberger, A., Lachnitt, H.-C., Kaluza, T., Schwenk, C., and Hoor, P.: Evidence of gravity wave contribution to vertical shear and mixing in the lower stratosphere: a WISE case study, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2025-5142, 2025. (Received: 16 Oct 2025 – Discussion started: 19 Dec 2025)

Gloeckner, H. M., Mieslinger, T., Robbins-Blanch, N., George, G., Kluft, L., Kölling, T., Bony, S., Windmiller, J., and Stevens, B.: BEACH: Barbados and Eastern Atlantic Combined High-altitude dropsonde datasets, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], doi:10.5194/essd-2025-647, revised version in review, 2025. (Received: 28 Oct 2025 – Discussion started: 24 Nov 2025)

Galewsky, J. and Los, S. A.: Mesoscale modulation of marine boundary layer water vapor isotopologues during EUREC4A, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2025-4128, 2025. (Received: 23 Aug 2025 – Discussion started: 16 Sep 2025)

2024

Deroubaix, A., Vountas, M., Gaubert, B., Andrés Hernández, M. D., Borrmann, S., Brasseur, G., Holanda, B., Kanaya, Y., Kaiser, K., Kluge, F., Krüger, O. O., Labuhn, I., Lichtenstern, M., Pfeilsticker, K., Pöhlker, M., Schlager, H., Schneider, J., Siour, G., Swain, B., Tuccella, P., Vinjamuri, K. S., Vrekoussis, M., Weyland, B., and Burrows, J. P.: Air quality model assessment in city plumes of Europe and East Asia, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2024-516, 2024. (Received: 21 Feb 2024 – Discussion started: 07 Mar 2024)

Deroubaix, A., Vountas, M., Gaubert, B., Andrés Hernández, M. D., Borrmann, S., Brasseur, G., Holanda, B., Kanaya, Y., Kaiser, K., Kluge, F., Krüger, O. O., Labuhn, I., Lichtenstern, M., Pfeilsticker, K., Pöhlker, M., Schlager, H., Schneider, J., Siour, G., Swain, B., Tuccella, P., Vinjamuri, K. S., Vrekoussis, M., Weyland, B., and Burrows, J. P.: Proportional relationships between carbonaceous aerosols and trace gases in city plumes of Europe and East Asia, EGUsphere [preprint], doi:10.5194/egusphere-2024-521, 2024. (Received: 22 Feb 2024 – Discussion started: 04 Mar 2024)