Atmospheric Research Programme - Instruments

Research instrumentation

1. Instruments owned or partly owned by IRF
2. International facilities
3. Instruments owned / operated by our collaborators

1. Instruments owned or partly owned by IRF

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Measurement system	Gives information about:	Responsible	Location	Status
lidar	aerosol, tropospheric ozone	Peter Voelger, IRF	IRF	funding received from SMCE
ESRAD MST radar	winds, turbulence, ca 1-15 km altitude all year , 80-90 km during summer	Sheila Kirkwood, IRF cooperation with SSC Esrange	Esrange, Kiruna	in operation since July 1996
MARA Moveable atmospheric radar for Antartica	winds, turbulence, ca 1-15 km altitude all year , 80-90 km during summer	Sheila Kirkwood, IRF	Indian research station Maitri (70.8°S, 11.7°E)	operating in the Antarctic since summer season 2006/2007
KIMRA mm-wave radiometer	ozone and other trace gas constituents in the stratosphere, profiles between 15 and 60 km	Uwe Raffalski, IRF co-operation with Forschungszentrum und Universität Karlsruhe, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research	IRF, Kiruna	in operation since 2002
NLC NETWORK a network of NLC automated cameras	Noctilucent Clouds and wave dynamics around the summer mesopause	Peter Dalin, IRF co-operation with institutes and organisations from Russia, Lithuania, Canada, the UK, Denmark, Japan	IRF, Kiruna	operating during summer time (20 May - 15 August) since 2004
weather station	temperature, wind, pressure, humidity, UV-radiation	IRF	IRF Kiruna	data available since 2009

2. International facilities

Measurement system	Gives information about:	Responsible	Location	Status
EISCAT	density, temperature, winds ca 80-110 km altitude, plasma parameters ca 70-1000 km altitude	EISCAT Scientific Association (UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, China)	Northern Scandinavia, Svalbard	In operation since 1981, Svalbard station since March 1996

3. Instruments owned / operated by our collaborators

Measurement system	Gives information about:	Responsible / contact info	Location	Status
FT-IR spectrometer	Total column amounts of O3 (ozone), ClONO2, HCl, HNO3, NO, N2O, NO2, HO2NO2, CFC-12, CFC-22, HF, COF2, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6, CH4, CO, H2O, HDO, HCN, OCS, and others	IMK (Germany), STEL (Japan); contact at IRF: Uwe Raffalski	IRF, Kiruna	in operation since Mar 1996
MIRA-2 radiometer	ozone and other trace gas constituents in the stratosphere, profiles between 15 and 60 km	FzK Karlsruhe contact at IRF: Uwe Raffalski	IRF, Kiruna	operated in campaigns 1996-2001
SKiYMET (Bath Arctic Meteor Radar)	meteor trail winds, "temperatures"	Dr N.J.Mitchell, University of Bath	Esrange, Kiruna	in operation since 1999
UV-visible spectrometer	total ozone (DU) BrO	NIWAR, New Zealand; contact at IRF: Uwe Raffalski	IRF, Kiruna	in operation since 1991
DOAS	nitrogen oxides, halogen oxides, ozone	contact at Heidelberg University, Barbara Dix, Thomas Wagner contact at IRF: Uwe Raffalski	IRF Kiruna	in operation since December 1996

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