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News Release 11-183
First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Research Flights
Three-year series of scientific missions from Arctic to Antarctic produces new views of atmospheric chemistry
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NSF's Gulfstream V aircraft, or HIAPER, in Anchorage, Alaska, during a HIPPO mission.
Credit: UCAR, Carlye Calvin
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View a video of HIPPO V 's flight plan that took the scientists and their mission from pole-to-pole.
Credit: NCAR
View a video of HIPPO scientist Bruce Daube of Harvard explaining the carbon dioxide measuring instrument.
Credit: NCAR
HIPPO V marks the end of a series of successful pole-to-pole atmospheric chemistry missions.
Credit: HIPPO Project
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Atmospheric scientists ready HIAPER for a long flight, loading air-sampling instruments.
Credit: Carlye Calvin, UCAR
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HIPPO's air-sampling flasks, tended by NCAR scientist Andy Watt.
Credit: Carlye Calvin, UCAR
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