Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany) have for the first time used several mobile Fourier Transform Spectrometers for detecting the CO2 emitted by a large metropolitan region in solar absorption spectra. The campaign was performed in June and July 2014 around Berlin, Germany.
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The 2015 NDACC Steering Committee meeting will take place 12–16 October 2015 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.
At the 2014 NDACC Steering Committee meeting in Brussels (3–5 November) Dr. Anne Thompson, Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (Maryland, USA) was elected Co-Chair of NDACC for a term from 2014–2017.
The annual meeting of the international Steering Committee (SC) for NDACC was held at the Belgium Science Policy Office in Brussels. Agenda items included a detailed report from the NDACC Data Host Facility on data archiving status and data utilization.
October 23, 2012 marks the official opening of the the Southern Tropical high altitude NDACC Maido Observatory in Reunion Island. After more than 15 years effort from CNRS-INSU, the Region and the University of Reunion Island, the construction of the Observatoire de Physique de l'Atmosphere (OPAR) was completed in July 2012.
The NDACC Working Group on Water Vapor announces the publication: ISSI Scientific Report 10: Monitoring Atmospheric Water Vapour edited by Niklaus Kampfer. The aim of the book is to assess in detail in situ and remote sensing techniques presently used to monitor on a regular basis the distribution of atmospheric water vapor.
In 1996, in an attempt to resolve an inconsistency between ozone profile trends obtained from satellite vs. ground-based measurements, the Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) initiated a collaboration with the International Ozone Commission (IO3C) to carefully re-evaluate the ground-based and satellite ozone data.
The Demonstration Network Of ground-based Remote Sensing observations (NORS) is a new EU Framework 7 R&D project in support of the GMES Atmospheric Service (GAS) that began on November 1, 2011 and will run for 33 months.
The NDACC 2012 Steering Committee Meeting will be held in Garmisch, Germany October 14–19 and will include 3 days of business, and visits to the NDACC Measurement Sites at Zugspitze and Hohenpeissenberg.