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The GV lives out at the NCAR's Research Aviation Facility (RAF) out at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (RMMA), in Jefferson County, when it is not out flying on research studies. The mission of the Research Aviation Facility is to develop and operate instrumented research aircraft for the atmospheric science community at a level of sophistication and operational complexity not generally available elsewhere.

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About HIPPO: HIPPO is a landmark study for many reasons, not the least of which is it is the first time scientists have systematically mapped global distribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, covering the full troposphere in all seasons and multiple years.

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Featured Publications

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques :: Profiling tropospheric CO₂ using Aura TES and TCCON instruments

Geophysical Research Letters :: Global-scale black carbon profiles observed in the remote atmosphere and compared to models

Geophysical Research Letters :: Tropospheric distribution and variability of N₂O: Evidence for strong tropical emissions

Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics :: Validation of TES methane with HIPPO aircraft observations: implications for inverse modeling of methane sources

AtmosNews :: Detailed Global Portrait of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Flights

LiveScience :: A HIPPO Takes to the Skies to Taste Earth's Atmosphere

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society :: HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO): fine-grained, global-scale measurements of climatically important atmospheric gases and aerosols

HIPPO Dates

HIPPO I :: 8 January-30 January 2009
HIPPO II :: 31 October-22 November 2009
HIPPO III :: 24 March-16 April 2010
HIPPO IV :: 14 June-11 July 2011
HIPPO V :: 9 August-9 September 2011