ACTRIS Marketplace

Short and long-term experimental campaigns at RADO premises, using RADO’s infrastructure and user’s own instrumentation. The infrastructure at RADO combines ACTRIS compliant aerosol remote sensing, cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ instrumentation, along with complementary measurements for meteorological parameters and radiation. Additional instruments from the users can be accommodated indoor or outdoor, as needed.

The service includes:
·        Support from the technical staff to install and operate the instruments
·        Support from the scientific staff to collect, process and analyze the data.

Short and long-term experimental Cal/Val campaigns at RADO premises, using RADO’s infrastructure and user’s own instrumentation. The infrastructure at RADO combines ACTRIS compliant aerosol remote sensing, cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ instrumentation, along with complementary measurements for meteorological parameters and radiation. Additional instruments from the users can be accommodated indoor or outdoor, as needed. Overflights with small research aircrafts possible.

The service includes:
·        Support from the technical staff to install and operate the instruments
·        Support from the scientific staff to set the measurements schedule coincident with satellite overpasses
·        Support from the scientific staff to collect, process and analyze the data.

Training through hands-on operation of instruments and data analysis. The service applies to aerosol remote sensing, cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ measurement techniques and variables as defined in ACTRIS. 

The service includes:
·        Hands-on training for operation and calibration of instruments
·        Training for setting up data processing environments
·        Training for using advanced processing algorithms (NATALI, GRASP)

Deployment of a mobile aerosol lidar for short-term campaigns and/or direct comparisons with similar instruments. The instrument operates at 1064, 532 and 355 nm wavelengths, with polarization at 532 nm and nighttime extinction capabilities at 532 and 355 nm. It can be operated inside a van (provided by RADO on request) or accommodated in the user’s laboratory (specific conditions to be discussed in advance).
The service includes:
·       Deployment and installation of the instrument at the user’s premises
·       Calibration, and operation of the instrument
·       Provision of the raw measurements
·       Provision of the processed data 

Testing of aerosol lidar prototypes by direct comparison with the reference Aerosol High-power Lidar operated at RADO premises by the ACTRIS Centre for Aerosol Remote Sensing (CARS). The instrument operates at 1064, 532 and 355 nm wavelengths, with polarization and daytime extinction capabilities, including HSRL at 532 nm. The user can either send the instrument, or accompany the instrument at RADO’s premises.
The service includes:
·       Support from the technical staff to install and operate the instruments
·       Support from the scientific staff to select and implement the testing scenarios
·       Support from the scientific staff to perform the comparative measurements and analyze the results

Weather forecast for Mt. Hoher Sonnblick: From permanently updated very short range forecasts (Nowcasts) over day-to-day forecasts to long-term and trends over weeks

Climate scenarios and climate change information for Sonnblick, for different altitude levels by the year 2100

Individual consulting on meteorological topics of any kind associated with Mt. Hoher Sonnblick (in particular weather briefings)

Availability period: All year round 24/7

Access to avalanche warning system and individual consulting on avalanche topics associated with Sonnblick

Scientific exploration at outdoor chambers for the study of atmospheric behavior of biogenic and anthropogenic VOCs, formation of products including ozone and aerosols under near-real conditions (use of natural light & high volume: 200m3) and their impact on the air quality. The chambers are equipped with a wide variety of instruments, also state-of-the-art systems, for that purpose. Intercomparison of instrumentation with the possibility of accommodating a large number of external instruments can be carried out. The facilities are suitable for testing, developing or improving new instruments to measure compounds in the air, testing innovative depolluting solutions relevant to air quality management, etc. In this sense, the facilities can be adapted to specific user’s demands so that researchers and industry can test their research-grade and close-to-market initiatives at nearly-real controlled conditions, which will help them to characterize and enhance their prototypes and technologies, models or research items.
Training stays, bottom-up oriented, within a research topic framework guided by expert staff are welcome.

This service for collaborative experiment series with a duration of up to 3 or 4 weeks on investigating aerosol-cloud-climate processes includes:

• experiment planning,
• administrative and technical support for installing and operating user instruments at the facility,
• technical and scientific support in operating the facility and its standard instrumentation needed for the experiments,
• training on facility operation procedures, facility instruments and scientific background,
• data provision
• support on analyzing and evaluating the chamber-specific data.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None, although access has to be coordinated with other activities in laboratory

The AIDA facility provides the possibility of testing (new) sampling instruments for water vapor, aerosols, ice-nucleating particles, cloud droplets and ice crystals, including those used for field measurements or on research aircrafts, and to perform instrument intercomparisons under well-defined and controlled laboratory conditions.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None, although access has to be coordinated with other activities in laboratory.

Production , injection , ageing , collection and characterization of atmospheric aerosols. Particulate matter analysis through off-line gravimetric, optical and thermo-optical analysis, Energy Dispersive- X Ray Fluorescence, Ion Chromatography

- 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.