ICOS 2nd Atmospheric Stations Instrumentation Workshop
23-24 November 2009
LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
The objectives of the "ICOS Atmospheric stations (ICOS AS) instrumentation workshops"
are to serve as a platform for the exchange
of information and experience on the instrumentation that will possibly be integrated into ICOS atmospheric stations.
The second ICOS AS workshop, organized at Gif sur Yvette on November 2009, had a special focus on instrumentation for
the mixing layer height determination, a core parameter of ICOS AS. Thirty scientists from nine countries have attended to sixteen presentations
addressing the instrumentation for the determination of the boundary limit height, but also trace gases analysers, and flask sampling strategy.
The performance and limitations of Lidars and ceilometers to detect the mixing layer heights were discussed in depth.
A couple of presentations have also emphasized the importance of having good estimates of this parameter at the ICOS stations
for different purposes (e.g. mass balance budgets, model validation, data assimilation, etc…).
A preliminary analysis of the results of the field campaign organized at Mace Head in June 2009 was presented.
Complementary analysis of this dataset, using the same algorithm to retrieve the mixing layer heights,
will be performed in the near future. An overview of the ongoing evaluation of CO analyzers was presented, as well
as the present status of the ICOS AS flask sampling system. Promising results obtained from FTIR and OF-CEAS technology were discussed.
The workshop has provided an overview of the state of the art in the addressed fields of atmospheric measurements.
It has also permitted to create some new interconnections in the scientific community, especially with the experts in
Lidar/Ceilometer instruments. To ensure the continuity of collaboration and information exchange, the workshop participants will be
integrated into the discussion via the "ICOS AS instrumentation" mail distribution list.
Download the final programme .
The workshop presentations are available for download from the table below (restricted access).
| Date | No. | Speaker |
| Monday | 01 | M. Ramonet (LSCE) |
| 23/11/2009 | ||
| 02 | B. Wastine (LSCE/EPA) | |
| 03 | Y. Morille (LMD/SIRTA) | |
| 04 | M. De Haij (KNMI, The Netherlands) | |
| 05 | S. Emeis (KIT/IMCR, Germany) | |
| 06 | S-E. Gryning (RNL-DTU, Denmark) | |
| 07 | G. Biavati (MPI-BGC, Germany) | |
| 08 | D. Feist (MPI-BGC, Germany) | |
| Tuesday | ||
| 24/11/2009 | 09 | D. Romanini (LSP, France) |
| 10 | M. Schmidt (LSCE, France) | |
| 11 | D. Griffith (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia) | |
| 12 | F. Gibert (LMD, France) | |
| 13 | A. Vermeulen (ECN, Netherlands) | |
| 14 | R. Kretschmer (MPI-BGC, Germany) | |
| 15 | J. Lavric (MPI-BGC, Germany) | |
| 16 | S. Emeis (KIT/IMCR, Germany) | |
| All presentations | ||
| * Note: If a presentation is not available, please contact the respective author(s) for further information. | ||
ICOS 1st Atmospheric Stations Instrumentation Workshop
17-18 November 2008
LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
The objective of the "ICOS Atmospheric stations (ICOS AS) instrumentation workshop"
was to serve as a platform for the exchange of
information and experience on the instrumentation that will possibly be integrated into ICOS atmospheric stations.
Researchers from ten countries and fifteen institutions have attended to seventeen presentations addressing
CO2/CH4/H2O and CO analysers,
and instrumentation for the determination of the boundary limit height. The performance and advantages/shortcomings of commercially available and,
in some cases, partially customised instruments were discussed in depth.
Comparable suites of new tests on the CO2/CH4/H2O instruments will be performed in the near future in several
laboratories - the agreement of workshop participants to share the test outcomes will create valuable synergetic effects.
In a lesser degree, some progress was obtained also in
the field of CO analysers.
The workshop has provided an overview of the state of the art in the addressed fields of atmospheric measurements.
It has also permitted to create some new interconnections in the scientific community.
To ensure the continuity of collaboration and information exchange, the workshop participants will be integrated into the discussion via
the "ICOS AS instrumentation" mail distribution list.
For the near future, a need for an ICOS AS workshop focused on boundary layer height
instrumentation was brought forward.
Download the final programme (open access)
and the list of participants
(restricted access).
The workshop presentations are available for download from the table below (restricted access).
| Date | No. | Speaker |
| Monday | 01 | M. Ramonet (LSCE) |
| 17/11/2008 | Session 1: CO2 / CH4 analysers | |
| 02 | B. Wastine (LSCE/EPA) | |
| 03 | C. Kaiser (LSCE) | |
| 04 | M. Steinbacher (EMPA) | |
| 05 | M. van der Schoot (CSIRO-CMAR) | |
| 06 | F. Meinhardt (UBA) | |
| 07 | J. Winderlich (MPI-BGC) | |
| 08 | M. Ramonet (LSCE | |
| 09 | T. Laurila (FMI) | |
| 10 | Karion and Sweeney (NOAA)* | |
| Tuesday | Session 2: CO analysers | |
| 18/11/2008 | 11 | D. Romanini (LSP Grenoble) |
| 12 | Ph. Nedelec (Lab. d'Aérologie) | |
| 13 | A. Vermeulen (ECN) | |
| 14 | S. O'Doherty (Univ. Bristol) | |
| 15 | F. Meinhardt (UBA) | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 16 | I. Xueref-Remy (LSCE)* | |
| 17 | D. Feist (MPI-BGC) | |
| All presentations | ||
| * Note: If a presentation is not available, please contact the respective author(s) for further information. | ||
