 want to tell you something similar you heard for satellite instruments we have something some software to organize aircraft missions and it's a software which was developed by an other company and so as the moment it this becomes open source I would be able to work on this so it was important to get it open source first I'm a programmer at the Forschungszentrum Jülich this is a center in Germany nearby Cologne which has a big supercomputer and I work in an institute for energy and climate in a sub-department for stratosphere chemistry I'm since many years in the Python software foundation and also in the Python software for bands it's a German equivalent if you want to mention me you can use my name on Twitter and this is some of the area where we work so now to explain a little bit so that you are not lost in all this what I want to tell you if you have made your last trip by aircraft to vacation somewhere you have maybe have say similar of you to see clouds and this is the atmosphere where we live usually we find us on the very ground but it's not very known by the structure of the clouds looks like this and so there will be a lot of investigation and maybe from schools you remember how the little bit about how the atmosphere looks like we are living in we are living in this part it's named the troposphere in the past you know all the roof they were not so high as now because then people recognize they smell about this and they did not like it so the roof gets higher altitude and what we all have here in this area is biomass burning and the urban pollution you know this there are some pictures from China where they have a very thick smog all the all time and a little bit higher we have zero clouds and also thunderstorms there are some chemical reactions possible because of the energy there if there's lightning you have chemical reactions and all this is in a movement the atmosphere has a movement from the equator to the poles and there are some other mechanisms and some of the stuff gets in the area where we do our work we are in this stratosphere focused and on some transport mechanism of stuff from there goes there and in the past you know there was the problem with the ozone hole so that's important that we have ozone in the stratosphere otherwise we have much more sunburn problems so we do atmospheric research because we want to help to have more data so that we can make prediction about the climate the global warming and maybe something similar like the ozone hole we have already solved by political reactions on it that we for buy some substances in the air so and to get all this knowledge you can do a lot in laboratory you can find out some substance like this reacts in this time with some other substance and this gives them this products you can do this by instruments measuring this also on balloons on aircrafts and that we heard in the last talk all this is done already also by satellites and there's a new project to make this very small that's which are not so expensive and it can be much more than in the past and also with all this knowledge you can make your models so you can simulate the atmosphere to try to simulate on the supercomputers all the knowledge about the movements of particles and their reactions for us it's important to understand all this individual processes so if you have an air parcel a cloud or something is a big air parcel you can imagine about this is moving says of course water in it but they are also chemical reactions happening and this isn't we try to understand this and to parameter sizes and put this also in different models which are not it's a worldwide project with to get data in models and find out more about this and at the end it's an ongoing process of quality improvements programming the same should you do always have tests and improve your data improve your code so the thing is that an aircraft mission is less complicated than a satellite mission because it's just you can hire an aircraft it's not so expensive and you can send the aircraft to a region where you want and but it's also a thing that it's not so cheap that you can buy an aircraft mission on your own you have to make this in collaboration and you have a lot of groups on such an aircraft then and then you may have 10 days several flight hours together but you may have also different interests so this is an aircraft we could use it since it was in the process by aircraft from the Russian military it has a range from 3000 kilometers and an altitude by 20 kilometers so when we start this for example from Kiruna or from India or we try to start it from Nepal and fly in some regions when no one has data yet so that's chosen image how different people try to add their stuff to the aircraft there are several base so you can have a lot also a wing pod for special instruments says for example an instrument which is always on the right side of the aircraft and can only measure if you do the right turn not it so it looks in the in a different direction then so only should not look into the sun and so there are some circumstances you have to care for and this is a long list of instruments for different substances by a lot of groups different institutes in Europe who have then they are instruments and then the problem is we have not the same goal they have have money got for different kind of measurements but we are all on the same aircraft so another one is hallo aircraft this has German aircraft it has an altitude by 15 kilometers but a much larger range about 10,000 kilometers so now we have those people who are able to finance together such an aircraft but so that has them to start from some airbase we can plan by model simulations to find out where they may have their interests and get this fit together so we find try to find out for all these groups so optimized flight path and there are also not only our wishes there are also the problems that some territory is protected we are not able to like to fly over this but forbidden so you have to take a lot of constraints in this and resolve this by a software and this is the mission support software a various group started in 2010 something to develop a software which can solve this issue that many groups together can plan in the region where the aircraft should go and Mark Rautenhaus from the DLR he had the best idea by this and he based his software on the LJC web maps service we heard this in the talk before and in my 2016 this project becomes open source this made it at this moment possible for several groups to join in and to use and extents the software one of the first things we did was that we put it on anaconda it's a connor forge application it's licensed as a patchy tool and we also use three to docks and marked it before already a GMT publication about it so that it is also known in science and the basic principle by this is we heard this I repeat a little from this is that we have a surfer which has data and a client which can request by a get map request what data is there the extension we have is that we not only get the data we also get the plot so we get the request something for a layer time elevation some projection type and the client then visualizes the plot this means we have petabyte of data somewhere and only at the location where we plan the aircraft mission where the scientists with the pilots are together they can exchange data in this way that they look at the same images what the software at the moment is is that we have a surfer application which is all pure pyson which is able to manage the data located on the surfer we have this already for the ETMWF the chemical glum's model also some others meteorosat data for example and at the moment it's a Qt4 for client interface we are going to Qt5 at the moment and this client this interact then with the surfer and on the surfer can implement the plotting routines or also the data access routine so you can have different kind of products added and the scientists then draws just in this data and this gives a flight path and this then can be exchanged and discussed and the waypoints if the scientists are happy with this they have to show it's a pilot and the pilot says no I can't go there or we have to fly a higher level there or something else and then they can just discuss this again and then at the end they have the flight path these architecture is that we have a whiskey application which is based on pasty on the surfer side and our data format is common data format net CDF this is an atmospheric science the most used one of the most used formats and also in you have to design your data driver for this your product of data and also the visualization definitions and the GUI application it has some views at the moment we have a top view this means you can look a horizontal view of the data or on side view means you have a vertical view on your data is at the point where your flight path is so you draw your flight path and it calculates how the data will look like at this view or the table view and this is that you have a table where your coordinates are and then you can have a loop view which image a lot of images could display on your screen and there are some other parts added flight performance for example means you have data about the aircraft about the weight about the fuel so that you know you can't go further because there's not enough fuel on board or you can't can't can reach the highest altitude because now the aircraft has not so much faith anymore the software is because it's on connor forge you have to add a connor channel this describes the installation process and also how to run this product and it is using an environment it can also be done without so it's just a command corner install mss and you have everything we have demo data implemented so that's easier to set up your own surfer or just try something and so we have this is the part then to start the surfer and that's this is gooey and you see here how it looks like and and the right side how so the loader looks if you look at the top view then it's all in QT and so you have a map at this point someone decided this a flight path this is just by clicking on the symbols and adding this route so you can also zoom into this and then you get new images from the data surfer if you look at the side view this is how the aircraft could fly in altitude to see this also in a table the table view in coordinates and all the time you could also request new data for different species this is on this pulldown menu or on a different height level height is based on pressure for because aircrafts like to fly on pressure level that's a thing you have to know and so that's simulated data here and you can look okay if I put my flight pass here I would be in this region and maybe this is for showing the cloud index I come here into a cloud and by discussing this with all scientists together you can just optimize where to fly and so they get all their wishes usually fulfilled so that say okay we do this flight this day and it is paid and then the problem solved and everyone then has the data he wants to he wants to have so we can also add other stuff on top view for example the satellite tracks sometimes the aircraft measurements are used to to check some of the instruments on the satellite or to to find out if the data is comparable then also there's some remote sensing stuff or you'd like to have in KML overlay so if you like for example have some borders known or territory where you are not able to overflight you can just edit by KML overlay also you can have very complex flight patterns added one for example is an hexagon flight pattern this is because there's some instrument possible on board which likes to make some kind of round pattern from the same year these are some examples how it's already used this was a flight from Kiruna to Uwafafnoven all these namings here that's the work from the pilot because there are some aircraft control systems which have names and it's if you take some route on you know this there's not much difference if you go to Mallorca or something else you have always a similar quite similar route and you don't fly us in other route just because that's the path to go to some place by aircraft is fixed so and the pilot knows all this information if you want to do a measurement research flight to like to fly maybe different but at some point it's not possible because pilot has to pass some of these signals so then he writes in this flight track all this kind of positions he has to pass and then it could be rechecked of still the goal of research is possible and if so then the flight path is done this is an M2O that's lach in germ it's lachgas in germ it's yeah I don't know it's in the medicine used to to often used and it's an important guess also the ozone on this side it's just shows what kind of levels of this species are then would be found if they measure there also on side views you see then the aircraft goes up and then flies around here's latitude longitude on this axis and climbs again because it could do this at this point because the weight it has already used a lot of fuel and snow let's wait and so it can climb higher then they put the last part and then it's worth landing somewhere and then it starts again for the next flight there are two flights in this picture here you see also some other thing you have to you have not only the people who are organizing the flights have their instruments there there are a lot of data centers involved and at the moment you have some idea where you need maybe data or want data you also ask all these data centers to prepare data sets for this but at some kind sometimes there are reasons you have to fly to some other place and this is here the white area for example there was then in some other data sets there was something very interesting there but not all of the extensor range automatically because you have to want to have maybe data just from 60 degree to something and some are able to prepare more data or this is because others have asked for this and but not all and it can happen that then you have not enough data in all the tiles for your forecast but you still want to make this fly it's a very complex system yeah this is another flight to see all this pictures and then I still used to discuss this and the color scheme shows about the amount of this species it's a potential vorticity in this case it shows how if you are in a polar region for example or in a normal atmospheric region so we have a lot of documentation about this it's we are on Bitbucket with the project we have it as a connor forge application and also if you like more to read about the mechanism how to use this in science or you can go to the paper of mark and also a lot of documentation is online SPDF so there were already some measurements by this aircrafts using the software it started in 2014 with an aircraft mission at the ML zeroes then we were in Kiruna now we had stratoclim this was in Kalamata and India Nordics was Iceland wise the next isn't in Ireland there are some more and at all there is if you like to make science it's maybe an interesting to make it at a group where all these instruments are maybe you can build software for those instruments software to use the data and also these people they they have also they have always nice interesting countries where they have to go with the aircraft so that's maybe also an interesting aspect to to to get there and to learn maybe improve their software okay I'm not that sure much time oh I'm in time have your questions do you have any idea how to make other research aircraft teams around the world embrace this software and how to make the community use it because from what I've seen here it's most of the German community and maybe the DLR etc what about the whole you far of the end card etc yeah one of the steps to go to this point was to have demo data set included so that it's much easier to see how the server component has to be structured and at the moment there's another group from from Bremen who it's their product there and we have written everyone we not to everyone using the aircraft missions systems we are also on so that they can use it and it's a just a part of improvement of everything also we are on this but it's some as there are already ECM WF data on it and it's the same a product on the old GC web map service that some have also other tools and we'd like to be compatible always okay one more question we can export the flight tax exchange with the other people's and also we have yes now for the next campaign which has complicated very complicated subset we have in preparation beforehand meeting and trying to find out what are the important interests of people are so and we do this with old data and so it it's just usually you can move if you're if you know someone is interested in this part and it's not so important for you you can just say okay we make your decision for this and on the other hand if it's maybe against you can say at the next time you can follow yours so but there's more than one flight usually in this campaign