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 |
Korea-United States Ocean Color Study
| 2016-05-20 | 2016-06-06 |
Korean United States - Air Quality
| 2016-04-18 | 2016-06-19 |
Lake Michigan Ozone Study
| 2017-05-22 | 2017-06-22 |
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 |
Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction EXperiment
| 2024-05-17 | 2024-06-17 |
| 2024-07-22 | 2024-08-16 |
Newly-Operating and Validated Instruments Comparison Experiment
| 2008-09-01 | 2008-09-15 |
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 |
WINter EXperiment
| 1999-03-15 | 1999-04-04 |
Synergistic TEMPO Air Quality Science
| 2023-06-24 | 2023-08-28 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
| 1992-10-10 | 1992-11-21 |
| 1993-04-15 | 1993-05-19 |
| 1993-10-15 | 1993-10-26 |
Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment
| 2007-04-16 | 2007-05-04 |
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 |
Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment
| 2019-04-09 | 2019-05-20 |
| 2024-06-02 | 2024-06-13 |
Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations
| 2006-03-01 | 2006-03-30 |
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 |
Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment
| 2006-01-14 | 2006-02-12 |
Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
| 1994-03-18 | 1994-11-04 |
Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign
| 2020-01-07 | 2020-02-13 |
Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study
| 2010-06-01 | 2010-06-28 |
Development and Evaluation of satellite ValidatiOn Tools by Experimenters
| 2011-09-19 | 2011-11-18 |
Bromine, Ozone, and Mercury Experiment
| 2012-03-06 | 2012-05-15 |
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 |
Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America
| 2004-07-01 | 2004-08-15 |
| 2006-03-01 | 2006-05-17 |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
| 1987-08-17 | 1987-10-04 |
Wisconsin Snow and Cloud Terra 2000 Experiment
| 2000-02-24 | 2000-03-13 |
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 |
Volcano-plume Investigation Readiness and Gas-phase and Aerosol Sulfur
| 2015-10-19 | 2015-10-30 |
Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality
| 2024-01-29 | 2024-04-01 |
Asian Summer Monsoon Chemical & Climate Impact Project
| 2022-07-15 | 2022-09-01 |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Night Validation Flights
| 2022-08-06 | 2022-08-19 |
CO2 and Methane Experiment
| 2014-08-18 | 2014-09-10 |
| 2014-05-04 | 2014-07-05 |
| 2015-08-19 | 2015-08-19 |
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 |
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 |
Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds, and Radiation
| 1993-07-12 | 1993-07-29 |
| 1994-09-19 | 1994-10-07 |
| 1995-08-13 | 1995-09-20 |
GPM Cold Season Precipitation Experiment
| 2012-01-15 | 2012-03-04 |
Arctic Radiation - IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment
| 2014-09-01 | 2014-10-03 |
Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys
| 2013-08-01 | 2013-09-23 |
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 |
Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment – Vortex Ozone Transport Experiment
| 1995-12-03 | 1996-02-20 |
GSFC Lidar Observation and Validation Experiment
| 2025-02-03 | 2025-02-20 |
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 |
Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment
| 2011-03-18 | 2011-04-26 |
Subsonic Assessment (SASS) Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment
| 1997-10-07 | 1997-11-12 |
Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment
| 1992-06-04 | 1992-06-27 |
The CALIPSO-CloudSat Validation Experiment
| 2006-07-24 | 2006-08-14 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers Florida Area Cirrus Experiment
| 2002-07-03 | 2002-07-29 |
Ozone Water-Land Environmental Transition Study
| 2017-07-05 | 2017-08-24 |
| 2018-05-08 | 2018-07-19 |
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 |
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 |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere
| 1999-01-07 | 1999-02-28 |
Convective Processes Experiment – Aerosols & Winds
| 2021-08-20 | 2021-10-02 |
Monterey Area Ship Track
| 1994-06-01 | 1994-06-30 |
SUbsonic aircraft: Contrail & Clouds Effects Special Study
| 1996-04-02 | 1996-05-15 |
Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites
| 2001-06-29 | 2001-08-02 |
Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
| 1988-12-15 | 1989-02-21 |
| 1991-08-20 | 1992-03-26 |
Deep Convective Clouds & Chemistry
| 2012-05-18 | 2012-06-30 |
Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study
| 2018-01-01 | 2019-07-29 |
| 2017-05-17 | 2017-05-18 |
SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment
| 1999-11-14 | 2000-03-20 |
| 2002-12-03 | 2003-02-06 |
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 |
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 |
Pacific 2001 Air Quality Study
| 2001-08-08 | 2001-09-05 |
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment
| 2024-08-28 | 2024-09-30 |
POlarimeter Definition EXperiment
| 2013-01-14 | 2013-02-06 |
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 |