Spawning the Atmosphere Measurements of Jungfraujoch, Schneefernerhaus and Sonnblick

A workshop organised by HFSJG and the Jungfraujoch Commission of the SCNAT with partners of the Virtual Alpine Observatory

Institut für Exakte Wissenschaften, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

Lecture Room: B5

Wednesday afternoon / Thursday 22/23 January 2014

Programme

Wednesday afternoon, January 22, 2014

• Aims of the Workshop
  Martin C.E. Huber (Jungfraujoch Kommission)
• “Challenges in meteorology and climatology at a high alpine site”
  Martine Collaud (MeteoSwiss, CH)
• “Tracking the signature of stable CO₂ isotopes by quantum cascade laser spectroscopy”
  Lukas Emmenegger (Empa, CH)
• “Lagrangian transport modeling for regional scale inverse emission estimation”
  Dominik Brunner (Empa, CH)
• “Spatio-temporal deposition of persistent organic pollutants in the Alps”
  Manfred Kirchner and Gert Jakobi (Helmholtz Centre, D)
• “Downscaling of climate change scenarios in high mountain regions using neural networks and atmospheric circulation type classifications”
  Andreas Philipp (University Augsburg, D)

Wednesday evening, January 22, 2014

• Welcome
  Erwin Flückiger, President HFSJG
• “The Alpine Research Station on Jungfraujoch – Origin, History and the Future”
  Markus Leuenberger, Director, JFJ Research Station
• “UFS Schneefernerhaus — Origin, History and the Future”
  Markus Neumann, Prokurist UFS Betriebsgesellschaft
• “Sonnblick observatory — Origin, History and the Future”
  Bernhard Niedermoser, Representative of Austrian Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie & Geodynamik

Thursday morning, January 23, 2014

• “Non-CO₂ greenhouse gas measurements for trend analysis and international protocols”
  Stefan Reimann (Empa, CH)
• “Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station”
  Marc Olefs (ZAMG, A)
• “Characterization of Airborne Microbial Communities”
  Birgit Sattler (Univ. Innsbruck, A)
• “Aerosol at Jungfraujoch: Physical, chemical and optical properties”
  Urs Baltensperger (PSI, CH)
• “Aerosol-cloud interaction in warm clouds”
  Nicolas Bukowiecki (PSI, CH)
• “CLACE/INUIT (Cloud and Aerosol Characterization Experiment/Ice NUclei research unIT) at Jungfraujoch 2013”
  Johannes Schneider (MPI f. Chem., Mainz, D)
• “Aerosol measurements at Sonnblick”
  Dietmar Wagenbach (Univ. Heidelberg, D)

Thursday afternoon, January 23, 2014

• “Recent results from the long-term FTIR monitoring activities at Jungfraujoch: some unexpected trends and new target species”
  Emmanuel Mahieu (Univ. Liège, B)
• “What can we learn from airglow observations?”
  Michael Bittner, Sabine Wüst, Carsten Schmidt (DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, D)
• “Variability and trends of water vapor and methane above the Zugspitze”
  Ralf Sussmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D)
• Assessment of Extreme Events in Alpine Climate Data by Extreme Value Test
  Annette Menzel (Technical University Munich, D)
• “CO₂ comparison between column integrated and in-situ measurements”
  Michael Schibig (Univ. Bern, CH)
• Closing Remarks
  Martin C.E. Huber