The coherent 2-µm Doppler wind lidar aboard the Falcon F20 research aircraft has been operated for almost two decades and has made significant contributions to numerous national and international field campaigns.
Turbulence, gusts and wake vortices pose a significant risk to today’s and future civil airliners representing the second major cause for enroute accidents in civil aeronautics, with increasing trend.
The ALADIN Airborne Demonstrator is the prototype of the Doppler wind lidar instrument ALADIN, which measured global wind data on board the Aeolus satellite between 2018 and 2023.
ALIMA is a powerful iron resonance and Rayleigh lidar for airborne measurements in the middle atmosphere, including the stratosphere, mesosphere and the lower thermosphere.
CHARM-F is an airborne integrated path differential absorption (IPDA) lidar for operation aboard the research aircraft HALO, measuring the column concentration CH4 and CO2 simultaneously.
CORAL (compact Rayleigh autonomous lidar) is a lidar instrument specifically designed for the investigation of gravity waves in the middle atmosphere.
The Institute for Atmospheric Physics operates a variety of different sensors for the detection and characterization of cloud particles on the research aircraft HALO and Falcon.
The Institute of Atmospheric Physics develops, modifies and optimizes in-situ instrumentation for the airborne measurements of a series of trace gases.
Satellite or ground based passive remote sensing from satellite utilize either solar radiation reflected at the Earth's surface or scattered in the atmosphere, or thermal radiation emitted by the surface-atmosphere system.
On the roof of the institute the polarimetric Doppler radar POLDIRAD has been operated since 1986.
The DLR QCL/ICL spectrometer is based on cutting-edge quantum cascade and interband cascade laser technology. It allows airborne observations of important trace and greenhouse gases in the Earth’s lower atmosphere.
The primary objective of the DLR project WALES is the preparation of a spaceborne mission to overcome the shortcomings of radiosondes and passive satellite sensors in mapping the global water vapour distribution.
