The Arctic is especially vulnerable to climate change since it is warming more than twice the global average. Aerosols and clouds play a major role regulating the energy transport from and to space. Within NASCENT 2019-2020 campaign (Ny-Ålesund AeroSol Cloud ExperimeNT) , we will study in depth microphysical and chemical properties of aerosols and clouds using a variety of novel instruments. This field campaign is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research council (VR) and the Horizon 2020 project FORCeS. Our observations are linked to the MOSAiC year (2019-2020).
We are using Twitter to update on our campaign progress (see here or list below).
Ny-Ålesund is a research community close to 79º North on Svalbard. Intensified observations of cloud and aerosol properties are conducted at Zeppelin observatory at 475 m above sea level. Various in-situ and remote sensing instruments below the mountain will additionally added analysis.
The HOLIMO balloon operating during NASCENT (photo: Paul Zieger).
Our inlets at Zeppelin Observatory. The CVI inlet in the front is used to sample cloud droplets and ice crystals during cloud events (photo: Paul Zieger).
Latest activities
- September 2020: Yvette presents her first results at the European Aerosol Conference 2020 in Aachen, Germany (online), “One-year measurements of the chemical composition of aerosols and cloud droplets by FIGAERO-CIMS at the Zeppelin Observatory”
- June 2020: Online data workshop with ETHZ, UiO, Uni Cologne and AWI
- February 2020: Our logo was finalized thanks to Gabriel Freitas and Rafael Tazima.
- February 2020: Article Der Wolkenstaubsauger von Spitzbergen in printed Version of Spektrum der Wissenschaften
- January 2020: First size-resolved aerosol samples taken at the Zeppelin station with an LPI (Low Pressure Impactor).
- December 2019: Schatten über dem Pol, article by Tamara Worzewski in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (24.12.2019, in German)
- November 2019: A blog post story about our FIGAERO-CIMS measurements at Zeppelin Observatory by the KAW foundation (in Swedish).
- October 2019: An article by Tamara Worzewski on our aerosol-cloud observations at Zeppelin occurred in the Spektrum der Wissenschaften (German version of Scientific American), which also includes a video on our work up at Zeppelin in June 2019 (with English subs).
- October 2019: The teams from IAC at ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and the University of Oslo (Norway) are setting up the HOLIMO balloon and their measurement container
- October 2019: Installation of FIGAERO-CIMS at Zeppelin station.
- September 2019: Packing the CIMS and other instruments to be shipped to Ny-Ålesund.
- June 2019: Installation of the bioaerosol sensor and calibration of instruments up at Zeppelin Observatory. A field report by Gabriel can be found here.
Our international partners
- Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsö, Norway
- Korean Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
- University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- IAC, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Julie Pasquier, Jan Henneberger, Jörg Wieder, Guangyu Li, Zamin Kanji, Ulrike Lohmann)
October 2019: The team around ETH and Uni Oslo are setting up their measurement container and the HOLIMO balloon (Li Guangyu, Rob Oscar, Julie Pasquier, Jan Henneberger, Jörg Wieder).
- University of Oslo, Norway (Robert Oscar David, Trude Storelvmo)
- Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland (Rob Modini, Rosaria Pileci)
- National Research Council of Italy, CNR, Italy
- Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
- National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
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