Activity Report 2014
Message of the President
Report of the Director
High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch
Statistics on research days 2014
Long-term experiments and automatic measurements
Activity reports
- The weather in 2014
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
- 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)
- GROMOS-C: GRoundbased Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer for Campaigns
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern
- Assessment of high altitude aerosol and cloud characteristics by remote sensing
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich
- The Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Interactions between aerosols and rain clouds as a function of aerosol types and sources
Earth Science Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Field measurements of aerosols acting as ice nucleating particles and their influence on mixed-phase clouds
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Study of new particle formation in the free troposphere, NUCLACE-2014
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- CLACE-2014_UK
University of Manchester, Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK
- Characterization of ice residuals using X-ray microspectroscopy
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
- Measurement of ice nucleating particles by the Frankfurt Deposition Freezing Experiment FRIDGE
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Study of ultrafine particle concentrations and nucleation events
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Study of snowfall by means of remote sensing and in-situ instruments
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, LTE-EPFL
- The morphology and optical properties of ice particles in mixed phase clouds(ISI-MICROPHYSICS)
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Measurement of biological particles during desert dust events
Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruher Institut of Technology, Germany)
- Biological ice nucleators at tropospheric cloud height
Departement Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Basel, Switzerland
- Stable isotopes in plant wax aerosols
Department of Environmental Sciences, Botany, University of Basel
- Comprehensive Radiation Flux Assessment (CRUX)
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland
- Global Atmosphere Watch Radiation Measurements
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
- Field test of a total-power radiometer comprising a 340 GHz sub-harmonic image rejection mixer (SHIRM) receiver for atmospheric remote sensing
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
- National Air Pollution Monitoring Network, NABEL
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
- Continuous measurement of stable CO2 isotopes at Jungfraujoch
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
- High precision carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements at Jungfraujoch
Climate and Environmental Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Flask comparison on Jungfraujoch
Centre for Isotope Research (CIO), Groningen, The Netherlands
- Flask comparison on Jungfraujoch
Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena, Germany
- Isotopic composition of N2O at Jungfraujoch
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
- Halogenated greenhouse gases at Jungfraujoch
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
- Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland
- Test for a new concept of an EAS detector for UHE neutrinos
Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
- Aerosol radioactivity monitoring RADAIR and DIGITEL
Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Sektion Umweltradioaktivität, Bern
- Automated GNSS Network Switzerland (AGNES)
Swiss Federal Office of Topography, swisstopo, Switzerland
- 85Kr activity determination in tropospheric air
Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Germany / Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Long-term observations of 14CO2 at Jungfraujoch
Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- Quantifying mountain venting of boundary layer air through 222Rn measurements
Departement Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Basel, Switzerland
- Emissions and imissions of atmospheric mercury in Switzerland
Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Glaciological investigations on the Grosser Aletschgletscher
(Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, VAW, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Test of equipment for ice core drilling on high-alpine glaciers
Laboratory of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
- Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network PERMOS
Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Influences of the snowcover on thermal processes in steep permafrost rockwalls. Long-term permafrost monitoring
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
- Performance of Methanol fuel cells in alpine environments
armasuisse S + T, Test Centre, Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport DDPS
- Long-term study on the efficiency of photovoltaics at alpine sites
Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, Photovoltaic Laboratory, Switzerland
- Cardiopulmonary adaptation of short term exposure to high altitude in Fontan patients: Swiss multicenter Fontan & Altitude Collaboration (FALCON) study
University Hospital Inselspital, Department of Cardiology, Centers for Congenital Heart Disease and Preventive Cardiology & Sports Medicine, Switzerland)
- Effects of enriched environment (EE) including exercise in recovery of high-altitude induced memory impairment
Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Human adaptation to high altitude
Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Correlation of blood gas analysis at 3454 m with symptoms of acute mountain sickness
Pneumologie, Medizinische Fakultät der Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
- Educational project for testing, evaluation and application of a self-developed method for recording and analysis of sleep at high altitude
Jugend-Forschungsgruppe academia, Kantonsschule Wattwil, Switzerland
- Avalanche Rescue Beacon with Smartphones
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zürich and Uepaa AG, Switzerland
- Site visitation to Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat for educational outreach
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver / Mt. Evans High-altitude Observatory and Chamberlin Observatory, USA
High Altitude Research Station Gornergrat
Statistics on research days 2014
Activity reports
The International Foundation HFSJG in the news
Publications
Index of research groups / institutes
List of collaborations
Pictures of the month 2014 from http://www.hfsjg.ch
Acknowledgements
The entire activity report 2014 for download (21 MB)