Overview
Atmospheric Composition includes variations in and processes that affect aerosols, clouds, and trace gases, which influence climate, weather, and air quality. AC provides observations and modeling tools to assess the effects of climate change on ozone recovery and future atmospheric composition; improve climate forecasts based on fluctuations in global environmental change; and model past, present, and future air quality, both regionally and globally.
Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment
| 1996-07-07 | 1996-07-31 |
Synergistic TEMPO Air Quality Science
| 2023-06-24 | 2023-08-28 |
GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment
| 2012-01-15 | 2012-03-04 |
SUbsonic aircraft: Contrail & Clouds Effects Special Study
| 1996-04-02 | 1996-05-15 |
Korean United States - Air Quality
| 2016-04-18 | 2016-06-19 |
GSFC Lidar Observation and Validation Experiment
| 2025-02-03 | 2025-02-20 |
Newly-Operating and Validated Instruments Comparison Experiment
| 2008-09-01 | 2008-09-15 |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere
| 1999-01-07 | 1999-02-28 |
Stratospheric-Tropospheric Exchange Project
| 1984-04-20 | 1984-05-06 |
| 1987-01-08 | 1987-02-19 |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Enhanced Shortwave Experiment
| 1995-09-22 | 1995-11-01 |
| 2000-02-21 | 2000-04-05 |
Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere
| 2008-08-01 | 2008-09-12 |
TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment – Air Quality
| 2021-09-01 | 2021-09-27 |
WINter Cloud Experiment
| 1997-01-23 | 1997-02-13 |
Arctic Radiation Measurement in Column: Atmosphere-Surface
| 1995-06-02 | 1995-06-17 |
Southern African Regional Science Initiative
| 2000-02-01 | 2000-03-31 |
| 2001-03-01 | 2001-03-31 |
| 1999-08-01 | 1999-09-30 |
| 2000-08-01 | 2000-09-30 |
Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons
| 2010-07-06 | 2010-07-18 |
| 2011-07-25 | 2011-08-06 |
| 2013-02-21 | 2013-03-08 |
| 2014-08-13 | 2014-09-03 |
| 2016-02-10 | 2016-02-11 |
| 2017-07-20 | 2017-08-09 |
AMAZonian aerosol characterization Experiment
BlueFlux
| 2023-02-05 | 2023-02-13 |
| 2023-03-10 | 2023-04-19 |
| 2022-03-19 | 2022-04-26 |
| 2022-10-14 | 2022-10-21 |
First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) Regional Experiment
| 1991-11-13 | 1991-12-07 |
| 1992-06-01 | 1992-06-25 |
| 1998-04-08 | 1998-07-30 |
| 1986-10-13 | 1986-11-02 |
| 1987-06-30 | 1987-07-19 |
Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America
| 2004-07-01 | 2004-08-15 |
| 2006-03-01 | 2006-05-17 |
Aerosol Cloud meTerology Interactions oVer the western ATlantic Experiment
| 2020-08-13 | 2020-09-30 |
| 2021-01-27 | 2021-04-02 |
| 2021-05-13 | 2021-06-30 |
| 2020-02-14 | 2020-03-12 |
| 2022-05-03 | 2022-06-18 |
| 2021-11-30 | 2022-03-29 |
Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
| 2019-07-15 | 2019-09-05 |
WB-57 Aerosol Mission
| 1998-04-07 | 1998-05-07 |
Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment
| 2007-04-16 | 2007-05-04 |
Korea-United States Ocean Color Study
| 2016-05-20 | 2016-06-06 |
Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region In Summer
| 1997-06-23 | 1997-07-12 |
| 1997-09-02 | 1997-09-25 |
| 1997-04-16 | 1997-05-15 |
Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport
| 1995-04-25 | 1995-05-21 |
| 1995-10-16 | 1995-11-10 |
| 1996-01-25 | 1996-02-16 |
| 1996-07-10 | 1996-08-11 |
| 1996-09-13 | 1996-09-25 |
| 1996-12-01 | 1996-12-20 |
WINter EXperiment
| 1999-03-15 | 1999-04-04 |
Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
| 1994-03-18 | 1994-11-04 |
Lake Michigan Ozone Study
| 2017-05-22 | 2017-06-22 |
Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment
| 2011-03-18 | 2011-04-26 |
Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign
| 2020-01-07 | 2020-02-13 |
Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations
| 2006-03-01 | 2006-03-30 |
Development and Evaluation of satellite ValidatiOn Tools by Experimenters
| 2011-09-19 | 2011-11-18 |
Atmospheric Tomography Mission
| 2016-07-29 | 2016-08-23 |
| 2018-04-24 | 2018-05-21 |
| 2017-09-28 | 2017-10-27 |
| 2017-01-26 | 2017-02-21 |
Pacific Oxidants, Sulfur, Ice, Dehydration, and cONvection
| 2016-10-12 | 2016-10-30 |
Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling
| 2007-06-16 | 2007-08-15 |
Balloon Measurements of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer
| 2014-08-18 | 2014-08-25 |
| 2015-07-17 | 2015-08-24 |
| 2017-07-31 | 2017-08-30 |
| 2016-07-01 | 2016-08-31 |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
| 1987-08-17 | 1987-10-04 |
Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment
| 2000-02-24 | 2000-03-13 |
Volcano-plume Investigation Readiness and Gas-phase and Aerosol Sulfur
| 2015-10-19 | 2015-10-30 |
Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical & Climate Impact Project
| 2022-07-15 | 2022-09-01 |
Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality
| 2024-01-29 | 2024-04-01 |
The CALIPSO-CloudSat Validation Experiment
| 2006-07-24 | 2006-08-14 |
CO2 and Methane Experiment
| 2014-08-18 | 2014-09-10 |
| 2014-05-04 | 2014-07-05 |
| 2015-08-19 | 2015-08-19 |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Night Validation Flights
| 2022-08-06 | 2022-08-19 |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Validation Experiment
| 2003-10-16 | 2003-11-01 |
Michigan-Ontario Ozone Source Experiment
| 2021-05-17 | 2021-12-15 |
Polar Aura Validation Experiment
| 2005-01-13 | 2005-02-09 |
Global Hawk Pacific
| 2010-04-02 | 2010-04-30 |
Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions
| 2016-08-19 | 2016-10-27 |
| 2017-08-01 | 2017-09-04 |
| 2018-09-21 | 2018-10-27 |
Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds, and Radiation
| 1993-07-12 | 1993-07-29 |
| 1994-09-19 | 1994-10-07 |
| 1995-08-13 | 1995-09-20 |
Global Tropospheric Experiment - Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
| 1984-06-13 | 1984-06-30 |
| 1987-04-13 | 1987-05-08 |
| 1988-07-07 | 1988-08-17 |
| 1990-07-06 | 1990-08-15 |
| 1985-07-11 | 1985-08-15 |
Appalachian Active Passive Methane Airborne Constraints
| 2025-07-11 | 2025-08-11 |
Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment
| 2013-01-19 | 2013-03-02 |
| 2013-12-20 | 2014-03-14 |
| 2011-10-20 | 2011-11-10 |
| 2015-02-26 | 2015-03-14 |
Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study
| 2001-08-08 | 2001-09-05 |
Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys
| 2013-08-01 | 2013-09-23 |
Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment
| 2014-09-01 | 2014-10-03 |
Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment – Vortex Ozone Transport Experiment
| 1995-12-03 | 1996-02-20 |
Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment
| 2012-05-23 | 2012-10-30 |
| 2013-02-05 | 2013-11-25 |
| 2015-02-10 | 2015-11-12 |
| 2014-02-13 | 2014-11-09 |
Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry
| 2012-05-18 | 2012-06-30 |
Subsonic Assessment (SASS) Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment
| 1997-10-07 | 1997-11-12 |
Aura Validation Experiment
| 2004-10-22 | 2004-11-12 |
| 2005-06-09 | 2005-07-07 |
Pacific Exploratory Mission
| 1991-09-16 | 1991-10-21 |
| 1994-02-07 | 1994-03-14 |
| 1996-08-14 | 1996-10-06 |
| 1999-03-06 | 1999-04-20 |
Ozone Water-Land Environmental Transition Study
| 2017-07-05 | 2017-08-24 |
| 2018-05-08 | 2018-07-19 |
POlarimeter Definition EXperiment
| 2013-01-14 | 2013-02-06 |
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers Florida Area Cirrus Experiment
| 2002-07-03 | 2002-07-29 |
Clouds, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes-Philippines Experiment
| 2019-08-20 | 2019-10-10 |
Student Airborne Research Program
| 2025-06-15 | 2025-08-02 |
| 2025-06-22 | 2025-08-09 |
| 2009-07-12 | 2009-08-13 |
| 2010-06-20 | 2010-07-30 |
| 2011-06-19 | 2011-07-29 |
| 2012-06-17 | 2012-08-10 |
| 2013-06-09 | 2013-08-02 |
| 2014-06-15 | 2014-08-08 |
| 2015-06-14 | 2015-08-07 |
| 2016-06-12 | 2016-08-05 |
| 2017-06-18 | 2017-08-11 |
| 2018-06-18 | 2018-08-10 |
| 2019-06-16 | 2019-08-09 |
| 2021-12-03 | 2021-12-10 |
| 2022-06-12 | 2022-08-05 |
| 2023-06-11 | 2023-08-04 |
| 2023-06-18 | 2023-08-11 |
| 2024-06-16 | 2024-08-09 |
| 2024-06-23 | 2024-08-16 |
Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator
| 1992-09-02 | 1992-10-26 |
| 2001-02-24 | 2001-04-15 |
Bromine, Ozone, and Mercury Experiment
| 2012-03-06 | 2012-05-15 |
Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols & Winds
| 2021-08-20 | 2021-10-02 |
Monterey Area Ship Track
| 1994-06-01 | 1994-06-30 |
Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
| 1988-12-15 | 1989-02-21 |
| 1991-08-20 | 1992-03-26 |
Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites
| 2001-06-29 | 2001-08-02 |
Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study
| 2018-01-01 | 2019-07-29 |
| 2017-05-17 | 2017-05-18 |
Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment
| 2024-05-17 | 2024-06-17 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-16 |
Stratospheric Aerosol processes, Budget, and Radiative Effects
| 2023-02-06 | 2023-03-27 |
| 2025-01-29 | 2025-02-21 |
| 2022-02-11 | 2022-02-25 |
Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites
| 2008-06-26 | 2008-07-14 |
| 2008-03-31 | 2008-04-21 |
| 2008-06-18 | 2008-06-24 |
California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change
| 2010-05-01 | 2010-07-22 |
FireSense
| 2024-10-01 | 2024-12-01 |
| 2025-03-17 | 2025-04-20 |
| 2023-09-14 | 2023-10-31 |
Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from COlumn and VERtically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality
| 2011-06-27 | 2011-07-31 |
| 2013-09-01 | 2013-10-01 |
| 2013-01-14 | 2013-02-11 |
| 2014-07-16 | 2014-08-16 |
Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment
| 2019-04-09 | 2019-05-20 |
| 2024-06-02 | 2024-06-13 |
Atmospheric Chemistry of Combustion Emissions Near the Tropopause
| 1999-09-03 | 1999-10-08 |
| 1999-03-25 | 1999-04-24 |
| 2000-09-01 | 2000-09-15 |
Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar
| 2017-10-19 | 2017-11-09 |
Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America
| 2017-01-31 | 2017-03-10 |
| 2017-10-03 | 2017-11-13 |
| 2019-06-17 | 2019-07-27 |
| 2016-07-18 | 2016-08-29 |
| 2018-04-12 | 2018-05-20 |
Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas
| 2023-06-12 | 2023-08-27 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
Radar Definition Experiment
| 2014-05-01 | 2014-06-15 |
| 2015-11-09 | 2015-12-15 |
Student Airborne Science Activation Program
| 2022-06-06 | 2022-07-29 |
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
| 2008-02-29 | 2008-04-12 |
Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
| 1992-10-10 | 1992-11-21 |
| 1993-04-15 | 1993-05-19 |
| 1993-10-15 | 1993-10-26 |
Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study
| 2010-06-01 | 2010-06-28 |
Global Tropospheric Experiment - Chemical Instrument Test and Evaluation
| 1983-07-05 | 1983-07-29 |
| 1984-04-17 | 1984-05-09 |
| 1989-08-22 | 1989-09-29 |
| 1983-10-19 | 1983-11-26 |
| 1986-08-11 | 1986-09-05 |
Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment
| 2006-01-14 | 2006-02-12 |
Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere
| 2021-07-06 | 2021-08-23 |
| 2021-05-03 | 2021-06-17 |
| 2022-05-26 | 2022-07-12 |
SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment
| 1999-11-14 | 2000-03-20 |
| 2002-12-03 | 2003-02-06 |