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International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch + Gornergrat Activity Report 2006 International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch + Gornergrat Sidlerstrasse 5 CH-3012 Bern / Switzerland Telephone +41 (0)31 631 4052 Fax +41 (0)31 631 4405 URL: http://www.ifjungo.ch http://www.hfsjg.ch May 2007 International Foundation HFSJG Annual Report 2006 Table of contents Message of the President.............................................................................................. i Report of the Director .................................................................................................. iii High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch Statistics on research days 2006 ......................................................................... 1 Long-term experiments and automatic measurements ....................................... 3 Activity reports: High resolution, solar infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometry, Application to the study of the Earth atmosphere (Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Belgium) .......... 5 Study of the atmospheric aerosols, water vapor, ozone and temperature by LIDAR (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) ....... 11 Global Atmosphere Watch Radiation Measurements (MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland)................................................................................... 15 Remote sensing of aerosol optical depth (Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland) .................... 19 Long-term energy yield and reliability of a high alpine PV photovoltaic plant at 3454 m (Berner Fachhochschule, Hochschule für Technik und Informatik HTI, Photovoltaik Labor, Switzerland) ............................... 21 Monitoring of halogenated greenhouse gases (EMPA, Switzerland)........... 23 National Air Pollution Monitoring Network, NABEL, (EMPA, Switzerland) ................................................................................... 27 European passive air sampling campaign for selected Persistent Organic Pollutants POPs, (Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway)........................................................................................... 33 Monitoring of air radioactivity at the Jungfraujoch Research Station: Test of a new High Volume Aerosol Sampler (Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland)...................................................................... 35 The Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch (Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland).............................................................. 39 Automated GPS Network in Switzerland AGNES (Bundesamt für Landestopographie swisstopo, Switzerland)........................................... 47 High precision carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements (Abteilung für Klima- und Umweltphysik, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland)........................................................ 53 14 222 Long-term observations of CO2 and Radon at Jungfraujoch (Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany)................... 55 Atmospheric physics and chemistry, (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB, Belgium) ............................................................... 57 85Kr activity determination in tropospheric air (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Germany, and Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland) .............................. 63 International Foundation HFSJG Annual Report 2006 Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment 5 (CLACE 5) (Particle Chemistry Department, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, University of Mainz and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany).......................................................................................... 65 Mass spectrometric studies of ice nuclei and background aerosol within CLACE 5 (Particle Chemistry Department, Institute for Atmospheric Physics, University of Mainz, and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz, Germany).......................................................................................... 69 Volatile organic compounds (VOC) in air, snow and ice crystals at high alpine research station Jungfraujoch during CLACE 5 (Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt, Universität Frankfurt, Germany) .... 73 Ice-nuclei concentration and dewpoint measurements during CLACE 5 (Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany) ................................................................. 77 Sampling and physio-chemical characterization of ice nuclei in mixed phase clouds (Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig, Germany)........................................................................................ 81 Single particle analysis of ice nuclei and interstitial particles of mixed- phase clouds from the CLACE 5 campaign (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Umwelt- mineralogie, Darmstadt, Germany) .............................................................. 85 Investigation of cloud condensation nuclei properties (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Biogeochemistry Department, Mainz, Germany) ...................................................................................................... 91 Single particle studies of ice nuclei during CLACE 5 (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich .......................................... 93 Characterization of cloud particles with FSSP and CIP Instruments during CLACE 5, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany)..................................... 95 Tomographic characterization of ice particles (University Mainz, Environmental Geochemistry, Mainz, Germany)......................................... 97 Digital in-situ holography of atmospheric ice particles (Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany).......................................................................................... 101 Measurements of PAN and formaldehyde at the interface between the planetary boundary and the free troposphere (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETHZ Zürich, Switzerland) ....................................... 105 Soft Error Test of electronic memory devices at high altitude (iRoC Technologies, Grenoble, France)....................................................... 109 SPAESRANE environmental experiments (Project SPAESRANE, Solutions for the preservation of Aerospace Electronic Systems Reliability in the Atmospheric Neutron Environment) ................................ 111 Cosmogenic nuclide production rate calibration using artificial quartz and water targets (Institut for Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources, ETH Zürich, Switzerland) ............................................................................ 115 Neutron Monitors – Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland) .............................. 117 International Foundation HFSJG Annual Report 2006 Study of detector to measure cosmic ray flux at large zenith angles, (Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza, Italy).............. 121 Variations of the Grosser Aletschgletscher (Versuchsanstalt für Wasser- bau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, VAW, ETH Zürich, Switzerland) .......... 123 Testing snowmaking and firn coring equipment (Centrum voor Isotopen Onderzoek Groningen University, The Netherlands)................................... 127 PERMASENSE and PERMOS: Measuring permafrost in Alpine rock walls (Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland) ........ 129 Change of impulse oscillometric parameters in healthy people after exposure to high altitude (Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt, University of Munich, Germany) ................................................................. 131 VITA Varves, Ice cores, and Tree rings – Archives with annual resolution (Labor für Radio- und Umwelt Chemie der Universität Bern und des Paul Scherrer Instituts, Switzerland) ...................................... 133 The weather in 2006 (MeteoSchweiz Zürich, Switzerland) ......................... 137 High Altitude Research Station Gornergrat Statistics on research days 2006 ......................................................................... 141 Activity reports: KOSMA - Kölner Observatorium für Submm-Astronomie (I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln; Radioastronomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Germany) ........................ 143 SONTEL - Solar Neutron Telescope for the identification and the study of high-energy neutrons produced in energetic eruptions at the Sun (Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland) ............. 149 On the outburst of glacier-dammed lakes: A study at Gornergletscher, Valais (Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland) ......................................................................... 153 The International Foundation HFSJG in the news ................................................... 161 Publications ................................................................................................................... 167 Index of research groups / institutes........................................................................... 181 Index of projects ..........................................................................................................