National Facilities
ACTRIS is the pan-European research infrastructure producing high-quality data and information on short-lived atmospheric constituents and on the processes leading to the variability of these constituents in natural and controlled atmospheres.
ACTRIS promotes the provision of access to a large variety of high-quality services to a wide range of users and needs, for scientific, technological and innovation-oriented usage.
ACTRIS core components are the National facilities, constituting in observatory and exploratory platoforms, and the Central Facilities, fundamental for the provision of harmonized high-quality data.
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Specific experiments performed by using the available equipment at OPAR,
combined with external equipment if needed. For example: use of CCN and INP counters
AVAILABILITY PERIOD: All year round, except 20/12 to 20/01 and 14/07 to 15/08
Campaigns organized by local research group at urban (Moufia) and mountain
(Maïdo) station for research in aerosol-cloud interaction based on synergistic
combination of different aerosol and cloud remote sensing and aerosol in-situ
techniques.
External research groups are invited to bring their own equipment (remote
sensing or in situ) in order to get completeness in the essential variables
AVAILABILITY PERIOD: All year round, except 20/12 to 20/01 and 14/07 to 15/08
Measurement and calibration for VOCs/halocarbons.
Investigations of the evolution of ambient air in different environments. Potential for use of two chambers with changes of the conditions in one of the two with the addition of a pollutant or an oxidant.
TIME CONSTRAINTS: None in general. Coordination and planning in advance needed for the transportation of the facility.
It is a mobile facility.
Sources tested in the past include diesel and gasoline engines, wood stoves, pellet stoves, barbecues, etc. Both the primary emissions (after dilution) and their evolution during daytime and nighttime reactions are quantified. The user can supply the source to be studied.
TIME CONSTRAINTS: None in general. Coordination and planning in advance needed for the transportation of the facility.
It is a mobile facility.