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Zeppelin mountain is one of the most important research stations for the investigation of atmospheric long-range transport of anthropogenic pollutants into the Arctic. The research and monitoring activities at the station contribute to regional, national and global monitoring networks such as System for observation of halogenated greenhouse gases in Europe (SOGE), Network for detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC), Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW), EMEP and AMAP.
Research is conducted mainly at the Zeppelin Mountain Station or in the 'Bath-house' laboratory at the foot of the mountain, under the scientific responsibility of the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). The extensive instrument park measures a number of atmospheric trace-gases and pollutants, including VOCs, POPs, CFCs, nitrogen oxides, methane, surface and total ozone, CO2, radioactivity, and precipitation chemistry. |
| Location | ||||
| Description: |  The Zeppelin Mountain Station provides facilities for air research and monitoring and consists of a 130 m2 observatory mounted on a sharp ridge on Zeppelin mountain south of the settlement, and a cable car installation. The station is situated about 3 km from the main buildings in Ny-Ålesund. The station is ideally suited for atmospheric monitoring with minimal contamination from the local settlement due to its location above the inversion layer. A wide range of air pollutants are monitored from the station, which contains rooms for clean air, dedicated instruments like a DOAS-spectrometer, pump and gas storage rooms, permanent instrument rooms and rooms for campaign instruments. At the top of the roof there is a platform for instrumentation. | |||
| Country: | Norway | |||
| State/Province/Region: | Svalbard | |||
| Altitude in feet: | 1555 | |||
| Altitude in meters: | 474 | |||
| Latitude (Decimal, Degreesºmm'ss") : | 78.9º N 78°54' N | |||
| Longitude (Decimal, Degreesºmm'ss") : | 11.88º E 11°53' E | |||
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| Local History and Culture | ||||
| Description: | The station on Zeppelin Mountain in Ny-Ålesund was officially opened in 1990 and is part of the Ny-Ålesund International Arctic Research and Monitoring Facility. On May 2nd, 2000 HRH Crown Prince Haakon Magnus of Norway re-opened Zeppelin Station. After 10 years, the original station no longer satisfied modern needs for advanced scientific measurements; thus a new building was erected, featuring improved telecommunication facilities, remotely controlled instruments and more space for new programmes. The Norwegian Ministry of Environment provided the means to replace the old station building, and Swedish funds have been made available through MISU (Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University) from Knut och Alice Wallenbergstiftelsen. | |||
| Primary Logistics Provider | ||||
| Organization: | Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) | |||
| Name and title of contact person: | Dr. Roland Kallenborn | |||
| Address: | 9296 Tromsø, Norway | |||
| Telephone: | +47-77-606970 | |||
| Fax: | +47-79-027002 | |||
| E-mail: | roland.kallenborn@nilu.no | |||
| Contact person or agency web page: | http://www.nilu.no/niluweb/services/zeppelin/ | |||
| Primary Management Agency | ||||
| Organization: | Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) | |||
| Contact information: | The Polar Environmental Centre 9296 Tromsø, Norway | |||
| Telephone: | +47-77-750375 | |||
| Fax: | +47-77-750376 | |||
| Email: | paal.berg@nilu.no | |||
| Web site: | http://www.nilu.no/ | |||
| Availability and Cost | ||||
| Availability: | For access to Zeppelin station contact: Pål Berg (leader NILU Ny-Ålesund co-ordination group) Box 100 NO-2027 Kjeller Norway +47-63-898000 +47-63-898050 paal.berg@nilu.no | |||
| Other Local Resources | ||||
| Resource: | Other groups involved in cooperative research and monitoring at the Zeppelin Mountain station | |||
| Contact information: | Norwegian Polar Institute (NP) Sverdrupstasjonen 9173 Ny-Ålesund, Norway Tel.: +47-79-027115 Fax: +47-79-027002 Email: stationmanager@npolar.no Web: http://www.npolar.no/ Stockholm University (MISU) Dept. of Meteorology Arrhenius Laboratory 10691, Stockholm, Sweden Tel.: +46-8-164352 Fax: +46-8-159295 Email: kim@misu.su.se Web: http://www.misu.su.se/ | |||
| Infrastructure | ||||
| Running water, Electricity, Heat | ||||
| Communications and Data Systems | ||||
| Internet access, Telephone system, Fax send/receive, Local area network (LAN) | ||||
| Data acquisition: | The Zeppelin research and monitoring station is equipped with continuously monitoring systems for key meteorological parameters. The meteorological data is updated 3 times a day, 04.30 am, 01.30 pm and 08.30 pm. These data are can be accessed by clicking on the Data Bank or Meteorological Data side menus at: http://www.nilu.no/niluweb/services/zeppelin/ | |||
| Laboratory Space | ||||
| Electricity in lab space, Telephone in lab space, General use computers / printers in lab space, Desk/office space, Internet access in lab space, E-mail send/receive in lab space, Spectrometer, Place to mount antennas, Clean room | ||||
| Lab space: | Observational platforms on the roof of the station, outlets for atmospheric sampling devices, campaign laboratory, clean-room for ultra-trace level atmospheric sample collection. div. Spectrometers, High-vol. air samplers for particle, POP, heavy metal, VOC and CFC collection from the atmosphere. The Radiation Observatory involves permanent long term observations of the Arctic radiation climate including advanced radiometric observations of aerosols, ozone and cloud optical depths, measurements of the surface radiation budget and high resolution UV-radiation. A well equipped optical calibration laboratory exist onsite for calibration and verification of the permanent radiation instruments and visiting instruments / guest researchers as well. The observatory includes a large open platform on the roof of the building with space available for installation of visiting campaign instruments. The observation programmes include the following instruments and equipment: Surface radiation budget measurements within the BSRN-network (NP/AWI), Standard 3-hour SYNOP-observations (DNMI/NP), Dobson-spectrophotometer for total column ozone (Univ. of Oslo), UV/VIS-spectrometer (SAOZ) for the observation of ozone and NO2 column densities (NILU), PAR, UV and UVB broadband radiometers (NP), UV-filter radiometer (NILU), a high resolution UV-spectrometer (NP), precise solar trackers for pointing radiation sensors and photometers. | |||
| Current Projects and Research History | ||||
| Research sources: | Search ENVINET/AMAP Project Directory for Zeppelin Mountain Atmospheric Research Station 2000: Long term persistence of effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on Arctic heath vegetation, and potential for recovery Primary Investigator: Sarah Woodin, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, Scotland 2000: LEAD-210 as a tracer for atmospheric transport processes in the high Arctic Primary Investigator: Yrjö Viisanen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Sahaajankatu 20E, FIN-00810 Helsinki, Finland 2000: Chemical denudation rates in high Arctic Primary Investigator: Wieslawa Ewa Krawczyk, University of Silesia, Faculty of Earth Science, Department of Geomorphology, 41-200 Sosnowiec, ul. Bedzinska 60, Poland 2001: LEAD-210 as a tracer for atmospheric transport processes in the high Arctic (continuation) Primary Investigator: Yrjö Viisanen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research, Sahaajankatu 20E, FIN-00810 Helsinki, Finland 2001: Isotopic study of atmospheric methane in the northern North Atlantic Primary Investigator: E.G. Nisbet, Atmospheric Monitoring and Isotope Laboratory, Dept. of Geology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK 2001: Understanding the fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Arctic snowpack Primary Investigator: Crispin J. Halsall, Institute of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Dept. of Environmental Science, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK 2001: Stratospheric trace gases detection with ground-based off-axis DOAS methodology Primary Investigator: Giorgio Giovanelli, ISAO-CNR, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, I-40129, Italy 2002: The photochemistry of PBT compounds in arctic ice Primary Investigator: Ivan Holoubek, Masaryk University in Brno, RECETOX, Vesla ská 230B, 637 00 Brno, Czech Republic 2002: Enhanced deposition of atmospheric mercury during Arctic sunrise - International campaign/intercomparison Primary Investigator: John Munthe, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, PO Box 47086, SE 402 58 Göteborg, Sweden Click here for information on research in the vicinity of Ny-Ålesund from the database of Veco Polar Resources. | |||