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.
Institut d’Astrophyisique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Belgium - Atmospheric physics and chemistry
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) - Assessment of high altitude aerosol and cloud characteristics
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich - Field measurements of atmospheric ice nuclei and properties of mixed phase clouds
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich - The Global Atmosphere Watch Aerosol Program at the Jungfraujoch
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM) measurements on the Jungfraujoch within the frame of
the EU project ACTRIS (Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure Network)
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland - Cloud Climatology and Surface Radiative Forcing over Switzerland (CLASS)
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC) - Remote sensing of aerosol optical depth
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center - Global Atmosphere Watch Radiation Measurements
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Payerne - Aerosol radioactivity monitoring RADAIR and DIGITEL
Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Sektion Umweltradioaktivität, Bern - 7Be and 10Be in monthly precipitation
Eawag - Neutron monitors – Study of solar and galactic cosmic rays
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bern - Test for a new concept of EAS detectors for UHE neutrinos
Department of Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza - 85Kr Activity Determination in Tropospheric Air
Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Freiburg i.Br.; Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern - Cosmogenic Activation of ultra-pure Xenon
Physik Institut, Universität Zürich - Long-term observations of 14CO2 at Jungfraujoch
Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg - National Air Pollution Monitoring Network (NABEL)
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology - High precision carbon dioxide and oxygen measurements at Jungfraujoch
Climate and Environmental Division, Physics Institute, University of Bern - Flask comparison on Jungfraujoch
Centre for Isotope Research (CIO), Groningen - Flask comparison on Jungfraujoch
Max Planck Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena - Continuous measurement of stable CO2 isotopes at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland
Continuous measurement of stable CO2 isotopes at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland - Halogenated Greenhouse Gases at Jungfraujoch
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology - Direct and continuous measurement of NO2, NO and NOy in ambient air using quantum
cascade laser absorption spectroscopy
Empa – Materials Science and Technology - Measurements of NO2 and O3 In the free troposhere by
a New LOPAP Instrument (MINI)
Physikalische Chemie / FBC, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany - Atmospheric Observations with STEAMR/PREMIER receiver prototypes
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern - Quantifying mountain venting of boundary layer air through Rn-222 measurements
Departement Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Basel - Biological ice nucleators at tropospheric cloud height
Departement Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Basel - Source regions of atmospheric mercury at the High Alpine Station Jungfraujoch
Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich - Transport and survival of desert soil- and rock suface inhabiting micro-organisms in
atmospheric mineral dust.
Institut für Veterinär Bakteriologie, Universität Bern; Freie Universität Berlin - Activity and migration of bats at Jungfraujoch
Peter E. Zingg - Effect of high altitude exposure on hemodynamic response to exercise in patients with mild
congenital heart disease
Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation, Swiss Cardiovascular Centre Bern, University Hospital (Inselspital), 3010 Bern - Human adaptation to high altitude
Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich - Influence of gender on high altitude adaptation: Comparison of ACE2-levels in plasma
between women and men
Pneumology, High Altitude Research Group, University of Munich, Germany - Effects of physical exercise and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor on the neurogliovascular
adaption to hypoxia
Department of Medicine, Unit of Anatomy, University of Fribourg - Glaciological investigations on the Grosser Aletschgletscher
Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie (VAW), ETH Zürich - Determining winter snow accumulation with shallow firn cores
Laboratory of Radiochemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut - Snow on permafrost rock walls
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF - Permasense
Department of Geography, University of Zurich - PERMOS
Department of Geography, University of Zurich - Automated GNSS Network Switzerland (AGNES)
Bundesamt für Landestopografie / Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) - Operation of a meteorological station at high altitude in the Alps
Surface Meteorological Networks, MeteoSwiss, Payerne - The weather in 2012
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss - PV production in high alpine sites
PV-Labor der Berner Fachhochschule Technik und Informatik BFH-TI - Assessing Climate Change Impacts on the Quality and Quantity of Water (ACQWA)
Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, Université de Genève - Observing the sky and describing the objects
Société Astronomique de Liège (SAL) - «In the Brightness of the Night» (In der Helle der Nacht)
Walter Bersinger, amateur filmmaker
High Altitude Research Station Gornergrat
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Activity reports
- 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 - Determination of englacial temperature in Gornergletscher
Versuchsanstalt für Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie (VAW) - Stellarium Gornergrat
Center for Space and Habitability, Universität Bern
The International Foundation HFSJG in the news
Index of research groups / institutes
Pictures of the month 2012 from https://www.hfsjg.ch
192. Jahreskongress SCNAT: “Höher und kälter – Forschung am
geographischen Limit”