Activity Report 2005

Message of the President

Report of the Director

High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch

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Long-term experiments and automatic measurements

Activity reports

• High resolution, solar infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometry, Application to the study of the Earth atmosphere
  Institute of Astrophyiscs and Geophysics, Université de Liège, Belgium
• Study of the atmospheric aerosols, water vapor and temperature by LIDAR
  EPFL, Switzerland
• Global Atmospheric Watch Radiation Measurements
  MeteoSuisse, Payerne, Switzerland
• Remote sensing of aerosol optical depth
  Physikalisch-Meteotologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland
• Long-term energy yield and reliability of a high alpine PV photovoltaic plant at 3453 m
  Berner Fachhochschule, Hochschule für Technik und Informatik HTI Burgdorf, Switzerland
• Monitoring of halogenated greenhouse gases
  EMPA, Switzerland
• National Air Pollution Monitoring Network, NABEL
  EMPA, Switzerland
• Carbon monoxide and molecular hydrogen at Jungfraujoch
  EMPA, Switzerland
• Emissions of Non-Regulated Oxidized Volatile Organic Compounds by advance GC-MS Technology (ENOVO)
  EMPA, Switzerland
• Aerosol Monitoring Station at the Jungfraujoch (RADAIR)
  Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Switzerland
• The Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch
  Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
• Automated GPS Network in Switzerland AGNES
  Bundesamt für Landestopographie swisstopo, Switzerland
• CarboEurope-IP: Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance
  Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Long-term observations of ¹⁴CO₂ at Jungfraujoch
  Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
• Measurements of nitrous acid (HONO) in the free troposphere
  Physikalische Chemie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
• Atmospheric physics and chemistry
  Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB, Belgium
• ⁸⁵Kr activity determination in tropospheric air
  Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Germany, and Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Source appointment of carbonaceous aerosols with ¹⁴C
  Laboratory of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Measurements at the High Alpine Station Jungfraujoch to study the long range transport and in-situ photochemistry
  ETH Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Switzerland
• Mass spectrometric analysis of residuals from small ice particles and from supercooled cloud droplets during CLACE 4
  Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Particle Chemistry Department, Mainz, Germany
• Volatile organic compounds (VOC) in air, snow and ice crystals and super-cooled droplets at high alpine research station Jungfraujoch during CLACE 4
  Institut für Atmosphäre und Umwelt, Universität Frankfurt, Germany
• CLACE 4
  University of Manchester, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, UK
• Sampling and physico-chemical characterisation of ice nuclei in mixed phase clouds
  Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
• Identification of the ice forming fraction of the atmospheric aerosol in mixed-phase clouds by environmental scanning electron microscopy
  Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Umweltmineralogie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Composition Control in the Lower Free Troposphere
  University of Leicester, UK
• Air ion concentrations, dynamics and their relation to new particle formation in Jungfraujoch
  Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Temporal variation of stable isotopes in Alpine precipitation
  Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Neutron Monitors - Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays
  Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Study of detector to measure cosmic ray flux at large zenith angles
  Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza, Italy
• Measuring the flux of cosmic rays arriving nearly horizontally
  Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica and IFNF, Pavia University, Italy
• Neutron background measurements at Jungfraujoch
  Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy
• Cosmic ray induced failures in biased power semiconductor devices
  ABB Switzerland Ltd., Semiconductors, Switzerland
• Development of a seeing monitor for astronomical applications
  Institut d'automatisation Industrielle, Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
• Operation of a 70 cm amateur beacon transmitter, operation of a 23 cm voice repeater station, study of high frequency propagation conditions
  Relaisgemeinschaft HB9F Bern, Switzerland
• Solar UV irradiance
  Division for Biomedical Physics, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
• Short-term acclimatization of high altitude in children
  Exercise Physiology, ETH-University of Zürich, Switzerland
• Change of peripheral lung function parameters in healthy subject acutely exposed to 3454 m
  Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt, University of Munich, Germany
• VITA Varves, Ice core, and Tree rings - Archives with annual resolution
  Labor für Radio- und Umwelt Chemie der Universität Bern und des Paul Scherrer Instituts, Switzerland
• Variations of the Grosser Aletschgletscher
  Versuchsanstalt für Wasser¬bau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, VAW, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• The weather in 2005
  MeteoSchweiz, Zürich, Switzerland

High Altitude Research Station Gornergrat

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Activity reports

• KOSMA - Kölner Observatorium für Submm-Astronomie
  I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln; Radioastronomisches Institut, Universität Bonn, Germany
• Italian national infrared telescope TIRGO
  INAF – Istituto di Radioastronomica, Sezione di Firenze, Italy
• 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
• Glacier outburst floods: A study of the processes controlling the drainage of glacier-dammed lakes
  Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

The International Foundation HFSJG in the news

Publications

Index of research groups / institutes and Index of projects

Review of 2005: Pictures of the month from http://www.ifjungo.ch

Establishment of a Global GAW Station at Jungfraujoch

TIRGO 1980 - 2005: 25 Years of History

Acknowledgements

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