ACTRIS Marketplace

- Intercomparison of instrumentation to evaluate performance under different environmental conditions.
- Study of interferences.
- Accommodation of a large number of external instruments. Support in planning and installation.
- Use of the chamber for technological development of instruments

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None. Coordination with other activities of the facility is needed. 

- Prototype testing.
- Use of the chamber to test, develop or improve new depolluting materials or devices, e.g. air cleaners, etc.
- Tests close to market
- Support for planning and evaluation of data experiments.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None. Coordination with other activities of the facility is needed. 

Provision of diverse platforms with manifolds equipped with ACTRIS-ICOS compliant sampling systems for in-situ aerosol and reactive and greenhouse gases for exercises of instrument intercomparison. The platforms are hosted in two air-conditioned shelters equipped with internet. Multiple inlets to the sampling systems are available for the external users. Provision also of a 300 m² open terrace which overpass the pines canopy providing a 360º free horizon for optical field calibration and a radiometric calibration laboratory (absolute irradiance calibration and instrument characterization). All platforms are equipped with continuous power supply and security service.

 The service includes:

• Access to the intercomparison platforms at ARN.

• Administrative support for providing access to the facility, a workspace with internet access, and to advice on logistics for equipment transport and users and on accommodation near ARN observatory.

• Technical staff support to reception and storage of the transport cases, for adapting the facility to assemble the new equipment, for its installation (internet connection, power supply, etc) and for its operation.

• Provision of calibration or intercomparison reports.

Service for training through hands-on-instrument operative and data analysis in accordance with ACTRIS and ICOS requirements. The service applies to in-situ aerosol measurement techniques (variables defined in ACTRIS), aerosol remote sensing (photometry, zenithal radiation and LIDAR), DOAS technique, reactive and greenhouse (ICOS) gases, solar radiation measurements.

 The service includes:

• Administrative support for providing access to the facility, a workspace with internet access, and to advice on logistics for equipment transport and users and on accommodation near ARN observatory (physical).

• Hands-on training for the operation and calibration of the instruments.

• Training for the creation of data processing environments, as well as for the use of advanced processing algorithms and tools.