Planned Campaigns
2022
Facility: AGORA, Spain
Date : November – December
Description : A second field campaign for fine scale mapping and pollution hot-spots covering the Fall of 2022.
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Date : October-November
Description : Aerosol and trace gases in small urban areas affected by biomass burning.
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Date : September – December
Description : Measurement campaing on the in situ- and remote sensing observations of Arctic clouds.
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Date : 1st September – 30th November
Description : campaign of continuous LIDAR measurement. The purpose of the campaign is to measure water vapor mixing ratio profiles, but all the lidar channels will be active, so that we will have backscatter profiles, extinction and depolarization of aerosols. During this period, the lidar configuration cannot be altered, but it is not invalidated depending on the type of access.
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Date : September
Description : An active remote sensing inter-comparison campaign between two reference lidar instruments in Actris.
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Date : September
Description : We are organizing the IAC 2022 in Athens and few colleagues expressed their willingness to stay few days more in Athens and perform common experiment at ATMOS site.
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Date : September
Description : We plan to invite APITOF users access to our chamber ACD-C to perform an instrument intercomparison.
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Date: September
Description : TNA proposal submitted to ATMO-ACCESS (Colleagues from Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing).
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Date : September
Description : Wildfire / biomass burning aerosol ageing IN and CCN properties.
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Date : Fall
Description : Campaign with the group of Prof. Joel Thornton (US), related to particles in the outflow of clouds.
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Date : Fall
Description : Campaign on humidity measurements
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Date : Autumn
Description : Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Autumn 2022
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Description : Testing instrument with company SUNSET
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Date : August-September
Description : Aerosol and trace gases in rural environment under the touristic pressur
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Date : July
Description : Secondary Organic Aerosol in mixtures
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Date : July
Description : Atmospheric chemistry of fluorinated compounds, a project with an Industrial Consortium
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Date : June-July
Description : Aerosol and trace gases in rural area affected by Granada Metropolitan area
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Date : June-July
Descritpion : Impact of primary and secondary biogenic emissions in cloud formation
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Date : June
Description : Audit by in-situ aerosol topical center ACTRIS at Mt. Cimone (Physical access)
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Date : Summer
Description : Study of spatial variability of temperature and humidity profiles in the Paris region
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Date : Summer
Description : Test/evaluation of compact MTP-5 microwave profiler
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Date : Summer
Description : Test/evaluation of Windsond temperature/wind profiler
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Date : Summer
Description : Training campaign
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Date : Summer
Description : Validation of LES simulations over Paris urban and suburban region
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Date : Summer
Description : Evaluation of boundary layer mixing height spatio-temporal variability
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Date : 20th May – 10th June
Description : Field campaign involving in-situ and remote sensing instrumentation for fine scale mapping and pollution hot-spots identification
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Date : mid-May mid-June
Description : Pesticide aerosol properties and SOA formation
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Date : May
Description : Round robin from NOAA-GMDL (WMO WCC for CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, and CO) at Mt. Cimone (Remote access)
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Description : Campaign to compare instruments for the detection of peroxy radicals
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Description : A campaign with collaborators from Lyon to elucidate the reactions going on within organic aerosols. (2022 submitted TNA)
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Description : For 2022 a campaign is in preparation connected to the urban landscape, in which the ACTRIS and ICOS connected observations will be integrated. This campaign is also related to the Green Deal projects RI-Urbans and PAUL.
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Date : April – May
Description : Wildfire / biomass burning aerosol ageing and CCN properties, absorption and BrC investigation
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Date : April
Description : Atmospheric Chemistry of Sulfure compounds, a CNRS-INSU project (LEFE)
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Date : Spring
Description : Cloud-Aerosol Interaction Spring 2022
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Date : Spring
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Date : Spring
Description : As part of RI-Urbans project we plan a big campaign in Athens of almost one year since this spring
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Date : February – November
Description : Leipzig
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Date : February-October
Description : Advances in the scattering and absorption studies of non-spherical atmospheric particles in support of air quality programs and remote sensing techniques
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Date : January-April
Description : Aerosol in small urban areas affected by biomass burning
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Date : December-January
Description : Aerosol and trace gases in rural area affected by Granada Metropolitan area
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Date : Winter 2022
Description : An intensive field campaign is going on with a focus on aerosol-fog interactions and will extend until May 2022 with further studies on secondary aerosol formation.
2023
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Date : Winter
Description : Campaign suggested and led by the University of Leeds on new and unique experiments on the formation of sulphuric acid aerosols under venus atmosphere conditions
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Date : June-July
Description : Ice nucleating ability of natural aerosol
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Date : Summer
Description : Audit by WMO/GAW WCC for O3,CO, CO2, CH4 at Mt. Cimone (Physical access)
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Date : April-May
Description : Aerosol and trace gases in rural environment under the touristic pressure
Location : Leipzig
Date : March – November
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Date : February-May
Description : Exploring the aerosoL-cloud interaction in the atmosPheric column by Improved remote Sensing methods
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Date : February-March
Description : Aerosol and trace gases in small urban areas affected by biomass burning
Location : AIDA, Germany
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Description : AIDA campaign on aerosol cloud processes
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Description : Intercomparison campaign of reactive oxygen measurements
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Description : Campaign on cloud formation studies
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Description : We are also planning some campaigns to measure the oxidative potential and the toxicological impact of aerosol produced by combustion processes. This activity will be mainly performed in the frame of a project of the Italian Ministry of Research (until spring 2023) but will continue for longer times and could be opened to the ATMO-ACCESS community.
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Description : University of Utrecht plans measurements using a mix of remote and physical access
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Description : The topic of the 2023 campaign has not been fixed yet, but it is a possibility that this will be a follow on of the urban campaign.
Location : ChAMBRe, Italy
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Description : We are planning an inter-comparison campaign of optical techniques/instruments to measure black and brow carbon concentration as well as their scattering and absorption properties. ChAMBRe is quite well equipped and other instruments are going to be purchased in the next months. The campaign is presently planned for the year 2023 and could last a few weeks. We plan to launch a sort of « call » to involve all the interested Colleagues
2024
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Date : June-July 2024
Description : Integrated monitoring of the complex greenhouse gases and aerosol particle exchanges between atmosphere, ecosystem and vadose zone in semiarid Mediterranean grassland
Location : Leipzig, Germany
Date : April – November
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Description : Cal/Val campaign for EarthCare
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Description : Intercomparison campaign (ACTRIS NF CIS will hopefully join)
Location : Cabauw, Netherlands
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Description : For 2024 we have a tentative plan to organize the next Cabauw Intercomparison of Nitrogen Dioxide measuring Instruments (CINDI-3) related to trace gas remote sensing. In case EarthCare is launched, we shall also aim to include CAL./VAL activities for that.
Location : Eriswil, Switzerland
Date : December 22 – March 23
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Date : Oct 2022 – July 2023
Description : Human volunteer exposres in clinical trial conditions, 7 campaigns
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Date : July 2021-June 2023
Description : Investigating the role of 3D meteorology as influencer agent on surface pollen concentration
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Description : Intercomparison campaign (ACTRIS NF CIS will hopefully join)
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Description : A comprehensive study comparing and contrasting coal emissions from wood burning and the role different oxidative environments play on each
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Date : Spring 2022-Summer 2025
Description : Integrated monitoring of the complex greenhouse gases and aerosol particle exchanges between atmosphere, ecosystem and vadose zone in olive orchard
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Description : Long term field campaign in the framework on RI-URBANS Green Deal. we will test NRT data provision of nanoparticles and their size distributions. In Pilot 4.4, we will evaluate health effects of novel AQ metrics and their source contributions, including PM components (mass concentrations) and nanoparticles (number concentrations). Additional campaigns can be organized in the framework of RI-URBANS for mapping spatial distribution of pollutants and vertical profiling (in collaboration with UPC)
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Date : Winter
Description : Every winter we are organizing campaigns to study the impact of wood burning on air quality of Athens atmosphere
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Date : Summer
Description : Saharan dust outbreaks impact
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Date : Yearly
Description : Summer school including following topics : Introduction of the sampling capacities in Košetice observatory, possible analytical determination of POPs, monitoring data processing, long-range transport of chemicals in the environment
Location : Eriswil, Switzerland
Date : December 23 – March 24
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Date : Late winter – early spring
Description : Dust-cloud interaction
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Description : TNA: A campaign focused on a comparison on how complex emissions from biomass burning sources react with both OH and Cl radicals to determine expected differences in heavily chlorinated environments (coasts and India)
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Description : One or two instrument test campaigns
Location : Eriswil, Switzerland
Date : December 24 – March 25
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Description : A number of campaigns using the infrastructure and a new mobile unit will be carried out in the framework of NPETS H2020 project, for measuring nanoparticle emissions from the transport sector and their impacts on health and policy.
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Description : We are continuously performing campaigns for testing of “low cost sensors” for PM and gaseous monitoring.
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Description : TNA from ICOS Hungary partners and University of Kielce
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Description : TNA from FMI – intercomparison of vertical profiles of aerosol variables with mobile UAV measurements
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Description : TNA from KIT – measurements of atmospheric ice nucleating particle concentration complemented with other available measurements at NAOK
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Description : Possible interest from new ACTRIS partners in Slovakia
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Description : TNA: observations of aerosol CCN activity, aerosol activation/scavenging using CVI technologies, organic compounds partitioning between fog and aerosol using FIGAERO and VOCUS spectrometers (Ilona Riipinen, Uni. Stockholm);
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Description : TNA: observation of molecular cluster and new-particle formation by means of air ion spectrometers (Jing Cai, Uni. Helsinki);
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Description : TNA: measurement of inorganic acids/bases and assessment of aerosol acidity and its effect on secondary aerosol formation (Athanasios Nenes, EPFL).
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Date : for several years
Description : We have already hosted and planned TNAs projects based on bioaerosol characterization: this is a kind of characteristic feature of ChAMBRe and we foresee to continue with this topic for several years. We remain completely open to host/collaborate specific projects in this field.
