Projects

Current third-party funded projects at the IAP

Several third-party funded projects are currently related to the research topics of the department "Optical Soundings and Sounding Rockets".

Project	Funding	Research topics
SOLEIL: Solar variability and trend effects in layers and trace gases	DFG	Global modelling with LIMA Tidal structures in NLC Modelling of NLC with LIMA/Ice CAWSES
Investigation of the influence of charged aerosol particles on the scattering of radar waves using	DFG	Dust in the mesosphere
INTACCO: Interaktive Kopplung zwischen dem dynamischen Modell und dem chemischen Transportmodell im Rahmen des globalen dreidimensionalen Modells der mittleren Atmosphäre COMMA-IAP	DFG	Chemistry of the mesosphere Trends in trace gases
Refurbishment and replacement of a microwave spectrometer to be used in the priority programme CAWSES	DFG	Modelling of NLC with LIMA/Ice Chemistry and trace gases in the mesosphere CAWSES
DORIS: Observation of stratospheric and mesospheric winds by an incoherent Doppler wind lidar: Soundings in the Arctic middle atmosphere	DFG	ALOMAR RMR-lidar
Development of a daylight-capable detector for examination of the middle atmosphere dynamics by a Rayleigh-Mie-Raman lidar	DFG	Temperatures in 54°N Gravity wave morphology in 54°N Temperatures and NLC Investigation of NLC by Lidar
ROMA: Temperature and wind soundings in the polar middle atmosphere by falling speres and foil clouds (chaff)	DLR	Meteorological Rockets
ECOMA: Investigation of the existence and charge state of meteoric dust in the middle atmosphere by means of rocket soundings	DLR	Dust in the mesosphere
Mesosphere dynamics, energetics and chemistry	DFG	Chemistry of the mesosphere
Waves and turbulence in atmosphere and ocean	WGL	Turbulence in the stratosphere

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