Ny-Ålesund RI

Ozone/Stratospheric and Climate Research Facilities of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)

The facility consists of groundbased remote sensing instruments and balloon launching equipment: multi-wavelength aerosol and ozone lidar, Fourier-Transform- and UV/VIS spectrometers, photometers, a digital multi-channel radiosounding system for various applications.

Research programmes concentrate on the state and variations in the stratospheric ozone layer, stratospheric and tropospheric aerosols, tropospheric ozone chemistry, stratospheric-tropospheric exchange processes and related research.

For more information about current programmes and possible new projects, please contact Dr. Roland Neuber at AWI (neuber@awi-potsdam.de, telephone +49 331 288 2129, telefax +49 331 288 2137).

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