Measurement Campaigns

 

Short-term measurement campaigns

Measured property

Instrument

Time

Partner

Total column O3 and NO2

Pandora

June 2018 – ongoing;

January – May 2011

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

AOD

Sun-photometer (Cimel)

June 2018 – ongoing

NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN)

CCN-counter

08/2016 – 06/2017

Finnish Meteorological Institute,  Finland

Refractive black carbon (rBC)

Single-particle Soot Photometer (SP2)

06/2016 – 10/2017

Finnish Meteorological Institute,  Finland

Vertical profiles of wind and turbulence

Halo scanning Doppler lidar

08/2016 – 06/2017

Finnish Meteorological Institute,  Finland

Volatile organic compounds (VOC)

Tenax tubes 2 times a week, 2hrs/day and 2 hrs/night

 

February 2011 – February 2012 & December 2013 – February 2015

Finnish Meteorological Institute,  Finland

PM10, PM2.5, PM1 chemical composition (organics and trace metals)

Aerosol (Cascade) Impactors; quartz and Teflon 1 and 7 day samples; 2D-GC for organics

April 2011 – April 2012

Finnish Meteorological Institute,  Finland

On-line PM1 aerosol chemical composition

Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor (ACSM)

September 2010 – August 2011

Aerodyne inc, USA; University of Eastern Finland; University of Helsinki, Finland; Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

 

Example of campaign measurement results

 

Results from aerosol chemical composition observations: (a) Mean contribution of OA, SO4, NH4, and NO3 to the growth  in NPF events at Welgegund. (b) Median OA and SO4 source rates. Picture from Vakkari et al., 2015.