Activity Report 2008
Message of the President
Report of the Director
High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch
Statistics on research days 2008
Long-term experiments and automatic measurements
Activity reports
- High resolution, solar infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometry, Application to the study of the Earth atmosphere
Institut d'Astrophyisique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Belgium
- Atmospheric physics and chemistry
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB, Belgium
- Study of the atmospheric aerosols, water, ozone and temperature by a LIDAR
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Global Atmospheric Watch Radiation Measurements
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
- Remote sensing of aerosol optical depth
Physikalisch-Meteotologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland
- Longwave infrared radiative forcing trend assimilation over Switzerland (LIRAS)
Physikalisch-Meteotologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland
- Long-term energy yield and reliability of a high alpine PV photovoltaic plant at 3454 m
Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Technik und Informatik TI, Photovoltaik Labor, Switzerland
- National Air Pollution Monitoring Network, NABEL
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Switzerland
- Halogenated greenhouse gases at Jungfraujoch -- new substances on the horizon
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Switzerland
- Continuous measurement of stable
CO2 isotopes at Jungfraujoch
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Switzerland
- Aerosols radioactive monitoring RADAIR
Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Sektion Umweltradioaktivität , Switzerland
- The Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
- Single particle analysis of aerosols from a Saharan dust event, sampled during CLACE 2008
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Life in Darwin's Dust
LBMPS, Université de Genève, Switzerland
- Measurements of ambient ice nuclei with the new instrument PINC
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Study of new particle formation and ion concentrations
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Blaise Pascal, France
- High precision carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements
Climate and Environmental Division, Physikalisches Institut , Universität Bern, Switzerland
- Long-term observations of 14CO2 and 222Radon at Jungfraujoch
Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- 85Kr activity determination in tropospheric air
Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland and
Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
- Collection of large volume air sample
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- NOy at the interface of planetary boundary layer and the free troposphere from measurements at Jungfraujoch
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Measurements of 222Radon for tracer applications
Institut für Umweltgeowissenschaften, Universität Basel, Switzerland
- Spectroscopic measurements of direct moon light
Institut für Umweltphysik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany
- Neutron Monitors - Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland
- Measurement of cosmic rays at large zenith angles
Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
- Production, transport and deposition of cosmogenic radionuclides 7Be, 10Be, 36Cl
Radioactive Tracers, Eawag, Switzerland
- Prevalence and pathophysiology of high altitude illness in children
Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Fetal programming of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Inselspital, Switzerland
- A thermal drill for ice coring on high-elevation glaciers, NCCR Climate VIVALDI (Variability in Ice, Vegetation, and Lake Deposits)
Labor für Radio- und Umwelt Chemie der Universität Bern und des Paul Scherrer Instituts, Switzerland
- Variations of the Grosser Aletschgletscher
Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, VAW, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- PERMASENSE and PERMOS: Measuring permafrost in Alpine rock walls
Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Permafrost in the Jungfrau East Ridge
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalance Research SLF, Switzerland
- Geometric alidation of TerraSAR-X High-Resolution Products
Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Automated GPS Network in Switzerland AGNES
Bundesamt für Landestopographie swisstopo, Switzerland
- Soft Error Measurements on CCD sensors
iRoC Technologies, France
- Evaluation of Bioaerosol Detectors for NBC-Reconnaissance
Labor Spiez, Fachbereich Biologie, Switzerland
- As if the Stars were countless, A simulation of the view of Space from Space according to astronaut Jim S. Voss
Christian Waldvogel, Switzerland
- Operation of a meteorological station at high altitude in the Alps
Surface Meteorological Networks, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
- The weather in 2008
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, 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
- 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 Zentrum, Switzerland
- Field survey at Gornergrat, August 2008
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany
The International Foundation HFSJG in the news
Publications
Index of research groups / institutes and Index of projects
Review of 2008: Pictures of the month from http://www.hfsjg.ch
Workshop organized by the Jungfraujoch Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (scnat): "Spawning the Atmosphere Measurements of Jungfraujoch"
Acknowledgements
The entire activity report 2008 for download (9,9 MB)
