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.
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 |
Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical & Climate Impact Project
| 2022-07-15 | 2022-09-01 |
Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
| 2008-02-29 | 2008-04-12 |
Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment
| 2019-04-09 | 2019-05-20 |
| 2024-06-02 | 2024-06-13 |
WINter EXperiment
| 1999-03-15 | 1999-04-04 |
GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment
| 2012-01-15 | 2012-03-04 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry
| 2012-05-18 | 2012-06-30 |
Stratospheric-Tropospheric Exchange Project
| 1984-04-20 | 1984-05-06 |
| 1987-01-08 | 1987-02-19 |
Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study
| 2018-01-01 | 2019-07-29 |
| 2017-05-17 | 2017-05-18 |
Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment
| 2014-09-01 | 2014-10-03 |
Terra/Aqua Experiment
| 2001-03-14 | 2001-04-04 |
| 2002-11-20 | 2002-12-13 |
Volcano-plume Investigation Readiness and Gas-phase and Aerosol Sulfur
| 2015-10-19 | 2015-10-30 |
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 |
Bromine, Ozone, and Mercury Experiment
| 2012-03-06 | 2012-05-15 |
Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment
| 2000-02-24 | 2000-03-13 |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere
| 1999-01-07 | 1999-02-28 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
Ozone Water-Land Environmental Transition Study
| 2017-07-05 | 2017-08-24 |
| 2018-05-08 | 2018-07-19 |
Global Hawk Pacific
| 2010-04-02 | 2010-04-30 |
Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling
| 2007-06-16 | 2007-08-15 |
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 |
Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations
| 2006-03-01 | 2006-03-30 |
Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality
| 2024-01-29 | 2024-04-01 |
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 |
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 |
Cumulus Humilis Aerosol Process Study
| 2025-06-04 | 2025-06-25 |
Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment – Vortex Ozone Transport Experiment
| 1995-12-03 | 1996-02-20 |
Synergistic TEMPO Air Quality Science
| 2023-06-24 | 2023-08-28 |
Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment
| 2024-05-17 | 2024-06-17 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-16 |
Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study
| 2010-06-01 | 2010-06-28 |
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 |
Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator
| 1992-09-02 | 1992-10-26 |
| 2001-02-24 | 2001-04-15 |
Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys
| 2013-08-01 | 2013-09-23 |
Newly-Operating and Validated Instruments Comparison Experiment
| 2008-09-01 | 2008-09-15 |
Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols & Winds
| 2021-08-20 | 2021-10-02 |
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 |
Monterey Area Ship Track
| 1994-06-01 | 1994-06-30 |
Korea-United States Ocean Color Study
| 2016-05-20 | 2016-06-06 |
Radar Definition Experiment
| 2014-05-01 | 2014-06-15 |
| 2015-11-09 | 2015-12-15 |
DC-8 Inlet Characterization Experiment
| 2003-05-29 | 2003-06-17 |
Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality
| 2019-07-15 | 2019-09-05 |
California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change
| 2010-05-01 | 2010-07-22 |
Subsonic Assessment (SASS) Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment
| 1997-10-07 | 1997-11-12 |
Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment
| 2006-01-14 | 2006-02-12 |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Night Validation Flights
| 2022-08-06 | 2022-08-19 |
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 |
Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment
| 2011-03-18 | 2011-04-26 |
Polar Aura Validation Experiment
| 2005-01-13 | 2005-02-09 |
Clouds, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes-Philippines Experiment
| 2019-08-20 | 2019-10-10 |
SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment
| 1999-11-14 | 2000-03-20 |
| 2002-12-03 | 2003-02-06 |
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 |
Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds, and Radiation
| 1993-07-12 | 1993-07-29 |
| 1994-09-19 | 1994-10-07 |
| 1995-08-13 | 1995-09-20 |
Aura Validation Experiment
| 2004-10-22 | 2004-11-12 |
| 2005-06-09 | 2005-07-07 |
WINter Cloud Experiment
| 1997-01-23 | 1997-02-13 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas
| 2023-06-12 | 2023-08-27 |
Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study
| 2001-08-08 | 2001-09-05 |
Appalachian Active Passive Methane Airborne Constraints
| 2025-07-11 | 2025-08-11 |
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 |
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 |
Arctic Radiation Measurement in Column: Atmosphere-Surface
| 1995-06-02 | 1995-06-17 |
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 |
Student Airborne Science Activation Program
| 2022-06-06 | 2022-07-29 |
Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment
| 2007-04-16 | 2007-05-04 |
Michigan-Ontario Ozone Source Experiment
| 2021-05-17 | 2021-12-15 |
Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
| 1988-12-15 | 1989-02-21 |
| 1991-08-20 | 1992-03-26 |
Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
| 1994-03-18 | 1994-11-04 |
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 |
Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America
| 2004-07-01 | 2004-08-15 |
| 2006-03-01 | 2006-05-17 |
Development and Evaluation of satellite ValidatiOn Tools by Experimenters
| 2011-09-19 | 2011-11-18 |
TRacking Aerosol Convection ExpeRiment – Air Quality
| 2021-09-01 | 2021-09-27 |
Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment
| 2008-02-07 | 2008-03-14 |
WB-57 Aerosol Mission
| 1998-04-07 | 1998-05-07 |
Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
| 1992-10-10 | 1992-11-21 |
| 1993-04-15 | 1993-05-19 |
| 1993-10-15 | 1993-10-26 |
Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign
| 2020-01-07 | 2020-02-13 |
Korean United States - Air Quality
| 2016-04-18 | 2016-06-19 |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
| 1987-08-17 | 1987-10-04 |
CO2 and Methane Experiment
| 2014-08-18 | 2014-09-10 |
| 2014-05-04 | 2014-07-05 |
| 2015-08-19 | 2015-08-19 |
Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar
| 2017-10-19 | 2017-11-09 |
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers Florida Area Cirrus Experiment
| 2002-07-03 | 2002-07-29 |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Enhanced Shortwave Experiment
| 1995-09-22 | 1995-11-01 |
| 2000-02-21 | 2000-04-05 |
Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites
| 2001-06-29 | 2001-08-02 |
SUbsonic aircraft: Contrail & Clouds Effects Special Study
| 1996-04-02 | 1996-05-15 |
FireSense
| 2024-10-01 | 2024-12-01 |
| 2025-03-17 | 2025-04-20 |
| 2023-09-14 | 2023-10-31 |
Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment
| 1996-07-07 | 1996-07-31 |
GSFC Lidar Observation and Validation Experiment
| 2025-02-03 | 2025-02-20 |
The CALIPSO-CloudSat Validation Experiment
| 2006-07-24 | 2006-08-14 |
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 |
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 |
POlarimeter Definition EXperiment
| 2013-01-14 | 2013-02-06 |
Lake Michigan Ozone Study
| 2017-05-22 | 2017-06-22 |
Pacific Oxidants, Sulfur, Ice, Dehydration, and cONvection
| 2016-10-12 | 2016-10-30 |
Arctic Mechanisms of Interaction Between the Surface and Atmosphere
| 2008-08-01 | 2008-09-12 |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Validation Experiment
| 2003-10-16 | 2003-11-01 |
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 |