Research Projects
At present the following research projects are in progress at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch. Links to experiments are given where available.
- Aerosols radioactive monitoring RADAIR
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, 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
- A thermal drill for ice coring on high-elevation glaciers, NCCR Climate VIVALDI, Variability in Ice, Vegetation, and Lake Deposits - Integrated
Labor für Radio- und Umwelt Chemie der Universität Bern
and Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
- Atmospheric physics and chemistry
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy BIRA-IASB, Belgium
- Automated GPS Network in Switzerland AGNES
Bundesamt für Landestopographie, Switzerland
- Collection of large volume air sample
Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
- Continuous measurement of stable CO2 isotopes at Jungfraujoch
EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Switzerland
- Evaluation of Bioaerosol Detectors for NBC-Reconnaissance
Labor Spiez, Fachbereich Biologie, Switzerland
- Fetal programming of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
- Geometric Validation of TerraSAR-X High-Resolution Products
Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Glacier outburst floods, a study of the processes controlling the drainage of glacier dammed lake
Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland
- Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
- Global Atmospheric Watch Radiation Measurements
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
- Halogenated greenhouse gases at Jungfraujoch - New substances on the horizon
EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Switzerland
- High precision carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements
Climate and Environmental Division, Physics Institute, University Bern, Switzerland
- High resolution, solar infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometry, Application to the study of the Earth atmosphere
Institute of Astrophyiscs and Geophysics, Université de Liège, Belgium
- 85Kr activity determination in tropospheric air
Climate and Environmental Physics, Universität Bern, Switzerland and Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Germany and
Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
- Life in Darwin's Dust
LBMPS, Université de Genève, 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
- Long-term observations of 14CO2 and 222Radon at Jungfraujoch
Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- Longwave Infrared radiative forcing trend assimiliation over Switzerland LIRAS
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland
- Measurement of 222Rn for atmospheric tracer applications
Institut für Umweltgeowissenschaften, Universität Basel, Switzerland
- Measurements of ambient ice nuclei with the new instrument PINC
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Monitoring of halogenated greenhouse gases
EMPA, Switzerland
- National Air Pollution Monitoring Network NABEL
EMPA, Switzerland
- Neutron Monitors - Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern, Switzerland
- NOy at the interface of planetary boundary layer and the free troposphere from measurements at Jungfraujoch
NOy at the interface of planetary boundary layer and the free troposphere from measurements at Jungfraujoch
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich IACETH, 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
- Operation of a meteorological station at high altitude in the Alps
Surface Meteorological Networks, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland
- Permafrost in the Jungfrau East Ridge
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
- PERMASENSE & PERMOS: Measuring permafrost in Alpine rock walls
Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Switzerland
- Prevalence and pathophysiology of high altitude illness in children
Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Production, transport and deposition of cosmogenic radionuclides 7Be, 10Be, 36Cl
Radioactive Tracers, Eawag, Switzerland
- Remote sensing of aerosol optical depth
Physikalisch-Meteotologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center, Switzerland
- Single particle analysis of aerosols from a Saharan dust event, sampled during CLACE 2008
Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Soft Error Measurements on CCD sensors
iRoC Technologies, France
- Spectroscopic measurements of direct moon light
Institut für Umweltphysik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitüt, Heidelberg, Germany
- Study of detector to measure cosmic ray flux at large zenith angle
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Physics, Italy
- Study of the atmospheric aerosols, water vapor and temperature by LIDAR
EPFL, Switzerland
- Study of new particle formation and ion concentrations
Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Université Blaise Pascal, France
- The weather in 2008
MeteoSchweiz, Zürich, Switzerland
- Variations of the grosser Aletschgletscher
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
- 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
