Longest measurement flight

At least up to now this was the longest measurement flight, 9 hours and 23 minutes. It lead us to the coast of Japan where we measured pollution from Japan and older emissions from the Yangtse region. On the way to Japan we flew at high altitude where we encountered an air mass mixed down from the stratosphere, with high ozone values. At the end we flew low over Taipeh and the west coast of Taiwan
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Taipeh

Power plant on west coast of Taiwan

The happy mission PI after the flight.

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