Working Group 3 - Campaigns

List of recent, ongoing, and planned observation campaign activities:

Campaign/Program,

Scientific focus,Region of study,

Deployment base; site(s), Key observations, Primary platform(s), Observational program, Duration,

Lead organizations, Science leadership

SWOP1,

TTL structure and microphysics,

Tibetan plateau, Lhasa [30N, 91E], Kunming [25N, 103E], O3 [ECC], H2O [CFH], particle [COBALD], Balloon, Balloon sonde profiles, 10-20 soundings in August, 2009-2017,

IAP/CAS, China, J. Bian (PI)

1Sounding Water vapor, Ozone and Particle (SWOP) campaign at Lhasa and Kunming during the Asian summer monsoon

NIES-VOS/Asia,

SLCP trends, SE Asia,

Cargo ship departing from Japan to SE Asia, O3, CO, CO2, CH4, BC, cargo ship, monitoring, ongoing,

NIES, Hiroshi Tanimoto (PI)

DeepWave-Transfer,

Composition of ASM outflow , SE Asia, SE Asia transects, O3, CO, CO2, CH4, SO2, N2O,

HNO3, aerosols, Falcon, Aircraft observations, 2 transects (2014),

DLR Oberpfaffenhofen

University of Mainz, Hans Schlager (DLR)

OMO,

Chemistry & Transport in ASM region, SE Asia,

Dubai/Dhaka (tbc), O3, OH, HONO, HO2, ROx, BrO, IO, CH4, NMHC, NOx, CO, SO2,OVOC incl. aldehydes, ketones, CH2O, C2H2O2, HNO3, peroxides,

Aerosol number densities, HALO, Aircraft campaign, 5 weeks in July/Aug 2015,

MPI-C, Mainz; FZJ Jülich, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, KIT Karlsruhe;

Universities of Bremen, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Wuppertal, Jos Lelieveld; Hartwig Harder (MPIC); Andreas Wahner (FZJ)

StratoClim aircraft campaign,

Trace gases and aerosols in the UTLS Asian Monsoon, Asia Monsoon, India/Nepal (t.b.d.), O3, CO, H2O, N2O, CH4, NO, NOy, CO2, SF6, CFCs, Halons, H2SO4, SO2, OCS, H2O/HDO, particle number densities, phase and shapes, aerosol chemical composition (bulk and single particle),..., M55 Geophyica (high altitude research aircraft), Aircraft campaign, 8-10 local flights

Process studies, 4 weeks in July/Aug 2017

FZJ Jülich, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, ISAC-CNR Rome, Markus Rex, AWI (PI),

Fred Stroh (FZJ), Hans Schlager (DLR), Franceso Cairo (ISAC-CNR)

StratoClim ground station,

Tropospheric and lower stratospheric transport and chemistry with focus on oxidation capacity, Tropical West Pacific, Palau,

Balloon sondes: O3 (ECC & UV-diode spectrometer), backscatter (COBALD), H2O (CFH);

FTIR: chemical species including COS, O3; Minilidar: backscatter, Balloon sondes and ground based, Campaigns&monitoring, 2015-2017, perhaps longer,

AWI, Markus Rex (PI)

BAM (Balloon-borne ATAL Measurements),

ATAL,

SE Asia, China, Aerosol particle # and size dist., Balloon, Profiles, Aug. 2015 and 2016,

NOAA ESRL CSD, IAP/CAS, Ru-Shan Gao

Winter fog Campaign,

A pilot scale study to monitor and characterize the formation of winter fog across South Asia, S Asia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, PM concentrations, visibility and social survey , Ground-based and mobile, High volume samplers and car MAX-DOAS, 15 December 2014 –15 February 2015,

ICIMOD-Nepal, NUST-Pakistan IST-Pakistan, Muhammad Fahim Khokhar (PI) Pakistan, Dr Imran Shahid (co-PI)

Car MAX-DOAS,

Spatial mapping and satellite validation of chemically active trace gases in Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan, Germany, NO2, SO2, HCHO, CHOCHO, HONO, , Ground-based and mobile, car MAX-DOAS, 17 February to 05 March 2015, MPI-c Mainz, Germany

NUST-Pakistan

IST-Pakistan, Prof. Thomas Wagner (PI) Germany

Muhammad Fahim Khokhar (PI)

Pakistan

SWAAMI

(South West Asian Aerosol - Monsoon Interactions),

Aerosol, regional climate in advance of the Indian monsoon, India, As yet unknown, Aerosol number, size, composition and optical properties; cloud physics trace gases (NOx, O3, CO, VOCs); radition (BBRs and wavelength resolved); lidar; dropsondes, Aircraft (UK FAAM; Indian Beechcraft-20), Aircraft campaign, 8-10 flights with each aircraft, May-July 2016,

UK: Manchester; Exeter; Reading

India: IISc and SRL-VSSC, Hugh Coe and Suresh Babu

CAPUM-YRD

Campaign for Air Pollution and Urban Meteorology in Yangtze River Delta, China.

Measurement items:

  1. O3 and particle profile
  2. Particle and water vapor profile
  3. O3, CO, SO2, H2S, NOX, NH3, VOC, PM. mobile
  4. O3, CO, HG, CO2, H2O, PM, BC, AOD, Gulou site, Nanjing
  5. O3, CO, SO2, NOX, H2S, CH4, NMHC, Xialin site, Nanjing

Primary platforms:

  1. Balloon
  2. Lidar
  3. Mobile
  4. Tower
  5. UAV
  6. Urban Sites
  7. Suburban sites

Three months intensive measurement: Aug 2016, Dec 2016,  May 2018.

Nanjing University, Tijian Wang (PI)

Winter Fog,

ACAM region, a 5-country multi-partner field campaign of the persistent winter fog over the Indo Gangetic Plains.  during Winter 2015-2016, ICIMOD, Arnico K. Panday

SOWER

(Soundings of Ozone and Water in the Equatorial Region), TTL and other tropical atmospheric processes , Tropical western Pacific , Indonesia, Vietnam, Kiribati, etc, Ozone, water vapor, aerosol particles, cirrus cloud particles, CO2, basic meteorological variables, etc., Meteorological balloons and ground-based remote sensing instruments (lidars), Meteorological balloons and ground-based remote sensing instruments (lidars), at least up to 2018, campaign-basis (northern winter season),

Hokkaido University, Japan , Fumio Hasebe 

If you feel that an observation campaign relevant for ACAM is missing and should be added to the list, please contact us.

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