Workshop

ACTRIS Cloud Remote Sensing Workshop Nov. 2022

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ACTRIS Centre for Cloud Remote Sensing (CCRES) organized a workshop on 14 and 15 November 2022. The workshop was held physically at the SIRTA Atmospheric Observatory, Ecole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

Principal Investigators of the National Facilities were invited to participate, as well as any member of the cloud remote sensing community.  

Here are some of the sessions:

• New calibration transfer methodology for different radar frequencies, Felipe Toledo
• Status update of the Cloudnet data portal, Simo Tukiainen
• Boundary layer characterization based on stability and turbulence measurements, Andrea Burgos-Cuevas, Tobias Marke
• Operational 3D-wind retrievals from scanning Doppler lidar and Doppler cloud radar, Bernhard Pospichal
• Overview and plans towards implementation of MWR processing, Tobias Marke

A hands-on training was proposed on Doppler cloud radar, weather station and disdrometers. It was provided by Jean-Charles Dupont, Lukas Pfitzenmaier, Gionata Ghiggi, Marc Schleiss, Marc-Antoine Drouin and Antoine Gibek. Here are the themes that were addressed during this training:

• The requirements on the set-up and acquisition,
• Raw data formatting into netcdf,
• Z-DD processing and Doppler cloud radar calibration constant monitoring,
• Quicklooks, alerts and flag for NF. 

Looking forward to seeing you there!

 

Agenda

 

Presentations

ACTRIS Aerosol Remote Sensing workshop 2022

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ACTRIS centre for Aerosol Remote Sensing (CARS) and the Aerosol Remote Sensing unit of the ACTRIS Data Centre (ARES) organizes a joint workshop on 27 October 2022, as part of the ACTRIS Week. The workshop is organized in hybrid format, however we encourage the community to join us physically in Prague.

The focus of the workshop is to present the new developments at CARS and ARES, and to discuss the current status of the aerosol remote sensing instruments and data products, in view of the upcoming NF labeling. PIs of the future aerosol remote sensing National Facilities are invited to participate, together with their teams, as well as any member of the aerosol remote sensing community who is interested in the topics. Please register via the ACTRIS Week registration platform.

Sessions

Start time	End time	Subject
09:00	09:30	Aerosol remote sensing National Facilities labeling
09:30	11:00	Automatic sun/sky/lunar photometer: new developments
11:00	12:30	Aerosol high-power lidar: new developments
13:30	14:45	Aerosol high-power lidar: QA/QC tests
14:30	16:00	Aerosol remote sensing data products: new developments
16:00	16:45	Aerosol remote sensing data products: plans
16:45	17:00	Sum-up and next actions

Detailed agenda accessible here

1st ACTRIS Intercomparison workshop of chemical ionization mass spectrometry (27th February - 10th March 2023) (NEW DATES!)

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1st ACTRIS intercomparison workshop of chemical ionization mass spectrometry to measure condensable vapors

Place: Tropos, Leipzig, Germany

Time: February 27th - March 10th, 2023 (NEW DATES!)

Organizers: University of Helsinki (ACTRIS Centre for Reactive Trace Gases In Situ Measurements - CiGas) and TROPOS (OrGanic Tracers and Aerosol Constituents - Calibration Centre, OGTAC-CC of CAIS-ECAC)

What we offer:

a) 2-weeks of chamber experiments including alpha-pinene oxidation, NOx dependency and sulfuric acid runs. The exact plan depends on the interests of the participants.

b) intercomparison between different instruments participating to the workshop giving more insight of the transmission and sensitivity of the instruments

Due to space limitations, we may need to restrict the number of participants. The participants need to cover their own costs (sending of instruments, possible travel & accommodation costs).

Ask for more information: actris-api@helsinki.fi

Please indicate you interest in participating in the workshop by providing us the information requested below and sending it to actris-api@helsinki.fi  by 7.11.2022.

 

Principal investigator name:

Institution:

Email:

Instrument information:

Inlet flow rate:

Specific wishes for the intercomparison:

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More information can be found here: Call for 1st ACTRIS chemical ionization mass spectrometer intercomparison 2023

 

 

 

The 7th Aerosol In-Situ Community Workshop

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The 7^th Aerosol In-Situ Community Workshop arranged by ECAC, April 7, 2022

Time: 9:00 - 11:30 am (CEST)

Location: online (Zoom), link

Agenda

• 09:00 - 09:05 Welcome and Introduction (A. Wiedensohler, JP Putaud)
• 09:05 - 09:20 ECAC server (K. Weinhold)
• 09:20 - 09:50 Update on CPC Calibrations (A. Wiedensohler)
• 09:50 - 10:05 Introduction of OGTAC-CC (F. Mothes)
• 10:05 - 10:20 Introduction of Cluster Calibration Center (CCC) and measurements of nano particles (S. Häme, K. Lehtipalo)
• 10:20 - 10:35 Denuders and sampling artifacts (K.E. Yttri)
• 10:35 - 10:50 New flow system for Aurora Nephelometer
• 10:50 - 11:30 Question and answer session

1st CIS intercomparison for LWC - Save the date!

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The first CIS intercomparison campaign for instruments measuring Liquid Water Content (LWC) will take place from 21st November until 5th December 2022 in Austria. Please save the date. Detailed information will follow soon.

ACTRIS Cloud Remote Sensing Workshop May 2022

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The ACTRIS Centre for Cloud Remote Sensing (CCRES) is organizing a workshop on two half-days during May 3rd and May 5th (9h00-12h30). 

Please don't hesitate to send us your proposal for a Cloud Remote Sensing scientific or technical topic (session 4, on May 5th)! Propositions of presentation for this session are open to all of the CRS community. Contributions will take the form of a short 10 minutes presentation followed by 5 minutes discussion. 

Agenda

ACTRIS NOx/VOC QA workshop

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The ACTRIS calibration center for reactive trace gas in situ measurements (CiGas) invites you to the annual CiGas QA workshop for finalizing NOx and VOC data before submission to EBAS. The workshop will take place 27.-29. April 2022 as an online meeting. The first day will be related to VOCs; on the second day we have planned some general sessions and scientific talks; the third day will be related to NOx. Information on the links and an update of the schedule will be sent some days in advance of the meeting.

Please let Ralf Tillmann (r.tillmann@fz-juelich.de) know by April 11th if you participate and on which days.

Furthermore, for the scientific talks, if you have interesting results of campaigns, new instruments or other findings, this would be an excellent chance to show it to the community. So please send Stefan Reimann (Stefan.Reimann@empa.ch) the title of the talk. 
 

You find the agenda here below

Agenda

1st Reactive Trace Gas In-Situ Community Workshop

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The ACTRIS calibration center for reactive trace gas in situ measurements (CiGas) organizes a workshop for the community of National Facilities (NF) using reactive trace gas in situ measurement techniques. The focus of the workshop is to present and discuss the general requirements and measurement guidelines for ACTRIS reactive trace gas in-situ measurements. PIs of the future NFs are invited to participate, together with their teams. NFs are asked to provide a two-minute presentation of their individual NF reactive trace gas in situ measurement activities/plans.

CCRES Workshop

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The Scientific and technical workshops geared towards the cloud remote sensing community are necessary to keep the community at the forefront of scientific and technical knowledge, through sharing of expertise and promotion of collaboration between participants. These workshops allow the CCRES consortium to receive feedback from ACTRIS National Facilities and external users about the support and services provided, and to learn about new developments and methods that have been tested by the community. The CCRES 2021 Workshop is the fourth CCRES workshop and was held online on the 21st September 2021.

 

• Presentations: 

- Session 1: CRS NFs

- Session 2: Data processings

- Sesion 3: Calibration Strategy

- Session 4: Data Transfer activities

- Session 5: Quality Assurance Strategy

• Workshop report:  link

GAWTEC webinar by R. Wegener: Measurement of nitrogen oxides

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Webinar with Robert Wegener

Measurement of nitrogen oxides November 24th, 2 pm UTC

Nitrogen oxides (NOx), the sum of nitrogen monoxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), play a central role in atmospheric chemistry. Nitrogen oxides form in the atmosphere during lightning strikes or during microbial processes in soils. The main part, however, is anthropogenic during combustion processes, with traffic being the main cause of nitrogen oxides. Although NO2 concentrations are decreasing, it is a still hazardous air pollutant in many parts of the world.

Consequently, there is a need to monitor nitrogen oxides. This is acknowledged in the World Meteorological Organization Global Atmospheric Watch Program.

In this lecture, I will give an overview of the diurnal and seasonal cycles of nitrogen oxides and on the factors the govern the observed mixing ratios. In the second part measurements, techniques of nitrogen oxides will be introduced.

Register for the webinar