Technological services

Intercomparison campaigns. Comparison with OPAR instruments that follow 
ACTRIS protocols, in situ, remote sensing in mountain (Maïdo) conditions and 
lidar, cloud radar and sun-sky-lunar photometer in urban (Moufia) conditions.

AVAILABILITY PERIOD: All year round, except 20/12 to 20/01 and 14/07 to 15/08

Measurement and calibration for N2O isotopes.

Measurement and calibration for VOCs/halocarbons.

Testing / intercomparisons of new instruments (inorganic and organic, gas-phase and particulate pollutants)

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None in general. Coordination and planning in advance needed for the transportation of the facility.

It is a mobile facility.

Conduction of wind Lidar measurements, data processing

TIME CONSTRAINTS: Depending on the availability of instrumentation

The Sonnblick Observatory has a cable car that covers 1,500 meters in altitude between the valley and the mountain. The cable car can be used for measuring profiles.

TIME CONSTRAINTS: No operation during thunderstorms

Planning, installation, commissioning and support of measuring instruments, which should measure at the Sonnblick Observatory. Connection to inlet, indoor or outdoor operation, documentation and feedback with instrument owner.

Support in the collection of precipitation (snow, ice, rain), filter or other samples in the area of Mt. Hoher Sonnblick for scientific analyses, also event-based sampling

Comparison of instruments measuring LWC with a fixed European ACTRIS reference instrument, short report and certificate

TIME CONSTRAINTS: Yearly

SERVICE STATUS: In implementation, starting in 2023/24

Calibration of photometers in terms of Langley procedures in pristine conditions (a certificate will be provided) and comparison of photometers with reference instrument enabling improvements and optimization of them.