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CAIRT is an innovative system, an imaging infrared spectrometer that

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works similar to an infrared camera.

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This means that we can see individual structures of the atmosphere,

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but at the same time we also see highly dissolved spectral signatures,

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which allows us to characterize not only the structures, but also the

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composition of the earth's atmosphere.

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This is unique, it gives us new observations and will also give us new

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possibilities for science to better describe these processes that we

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have not yet described well in climate models.

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At the moment, I am mainly dealing with data analysis.

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I take the data from GLORIA and try to understand certain aspects of

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the Asian monsoon with transport mechanisms and to get a deeper

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understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere.

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The CAIRT concept is based on many points of what we have done with the

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GLORIA instrument over the past years and decades, together with the

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Jülich Research Center and the colleagues here at the KIT.

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In addition, we have now set up a very strong team over the past few

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years.

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Colleagues from Spain, Italy, Belgium, France, Great Britain, the

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Netherlands, Finland and Canada.

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We need satellites because they allow us to have a complete overview

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of the globe in order to be able to compare our current measurements.

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No institute alone can do this on a larger scale.

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This knowledge about the atmosphere, the knowledge about instruments,

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is spread over the whole world and we have to manage to bring these

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different insights together and also apply them to our insights.

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We approached ESA with our proposal for CAIRT.

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This was then chosen as a concept that should be pursued with the

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desire to install it on one of the first Explorer instruments and to

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work on it together is something that is also a lot of fun.