Instruments & Models

Deployed instruments

A wide set of instrument will be deployed during the campaign in several locations in Athens. They will provide complementary information about the atmospheric aerosol content the cloud formation and their interactions.

Instrument Provider Location PI
AERONET photometer B.R.F.A.A. 37.99, 23.78 Vasilis Amiridis
AIAS Depolarization Lidar NTUA 38.00, 23.82 Alexandros Papayannis
CCN counter Georgia Tech 38.00, 23.82 Athanasios Nenes
Ceilometer CS135 Campbell Scientific 37.98, 23.78 Joshua Vande Hey
Doppler Lidar FMI 38.00, 23.82 Mika Komppula
DustTrak Aerosol Monitor 8520 NTUA 37.98, 23.78 Panayotis Kokkalis
EOLE Raman LIDAR NTUA 37.98, 23.78 Alexandros Papayannis
In-situ aerosol microphysical measurements N.C.S.R. DEMOKRITOS 38.00, 23.82 Kostantinos Eleftheriadis
In-situ aerosol optical measurements N.C.S.R. DEMOKRITOS 38.00, 23.82 Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Microwave radiometer INOE 37.98, 23.78 Livio Belegante
Mobile Weather Radar (XPOL) NOA 38.05, 23.86 John Kalogiros
NanoScan SMPS ENCO Ltd. 38.00, 23.82 Alexandros Papayannis
Optical Particle Size Spectrometer ENCO Ltd. 37.98, 23.78 Alexandros Papayannis
PM chemical composition analysis N.C.S.R. DEMOKRITOS 38.00, 23.82 Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Radiosondes UoA 37.97, 23.79 Kostas Varotsos, C.Tzanis
Sky camera-polarized NTUA 37.98, 23.78 Alexandros Papayannis
SMPS-Grimm NTUA 37.98, 23.78 Panayotis Kokkalis
Solar radiation - UVA, UVB (total, direct, diffuse) B.R.F.A.A. 37.99, 23.78 Stylianos Kazadzis
UV scanning lidar Raymetrics S.A. 37.98, 23.78 George Georgousis
Weather station NTUA 37.98, 23.78 Alexandros Papayannis
Weather station N.C.S.R. DEMOKRITOS 38.00, 23.82 Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Weather station & Cameras NOA 38.05, 23.86 Kostas Lagouvardos

Models

The output of several models will be used, both during and after the campaign.

Models Provider PI
FLEXPART back-trajectories NOA Stavros Solomos
Weather Research and Forecasting - WRF NOA Stavros Solomos
WRF-ARW BSC Robert Banks

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