ABOUT US

ACTRIS Austria has been established in 2017.  Since 2018 it has received support by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) to participate in the Interim Actris Council which has been set up to prepare, discuss and approve strategic issues for establishing ACTRIS. 
The ACTRIS ERIC research infrastructure was officially founded in May 2023 and Austria was involved as a founding member and has therefore been represented by a delegate in the General Assembly ever since.

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2024 Event Timeline

ACTRIS Annual Science Conference 2024

Date: May 13-16, 2024

Location: Rennes, France

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ACTRIS General Assembly (GA)

Date: May 28-29, 2024

Location: Vienna, Austria

Summer School "Basic Aerosol Science 2024", Vienna

Date: July 7 -13, 2024

Location: Vienna, Austria

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ACTRIS AT Annual meeting

Date: October 2024 (Tentative)

Location: Vienna, Austria (Tentative)

ACTRIS week

Date: November 4 - 8, 2024

Location: tbd

ACTRIS Punkte mit Legende auf OpenStreetMap




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Pandora – measuring reactive trace gases (e.g.: NO2 and O3)

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PFR – Sun Photometer measuring aerosol optical depth (AOD)



LuftBlick Earth Observation Technologies

 

LuftBlick (founded in 2012) is an internationally operating science and engineering company located at Kreith, near Innsbruck, Austria.

Our core business is atmospheric remote sensing in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared, with data management and instrument hosting. Our expertise includes design of ground-based and satellite-instrumentation, development of instrument control software, laboratory and field calibration, retrieval algorithms for atmospheric trace gases (e.g. O3, NO2), instrument network hosting, operational network data and image processing, satellite validation support, data search and collocation, data harmonization, quality control, analysis and conversion.

LuftBlick’s key personnel has many years of experience in atmospheric research and has been serving as consultants or collaborators for institutions like ESA, NASA, the Skin Cancer Foundation, or Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center.

Role in ACTRIS:

  • Common operator of a central facility unit
  • Trace gas remote sensing (CREGARS), unit: UVVIS-AT

Retrievals:

  • Meteorology parameter
  • Reactive trace gases (NO2, O3, HCHO, SO2)

Contact:

Dr. Alexander Cede 
alexander.cede(at)luftblick.at 
http://pandonia.net
http://pandonia-global-network.org

Lab calibration of a Pandora



Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)

 

TU Wien has concentrated its research in five research focal areas (and one additional field) – one of them being Energy and Environment, where emphasis is set on interdisciplinary research and cross-linking of activities of research groups. Generally, research activities linked to ACTRIS contribute to the research field ‘Environmental Monitoring and Climate Adaption’.

ACTRIS connects projects carried out within the research units or groups Environmental Analytics, Physical Chemistry of the Atmosphere,  Water Quality Management, Geophysics, This can be visualized via recent activities at the Sonnblick Observatory. Research at this high mountain site allows the characterization of background conditions above Europe, to identify long range transport of natural or anthropogenic pollution events and to investigate basic and applied research questions related to atmospheric processes and deposition. 

Present research projects comprise aerosol characterization, ice nucleation, wet deposition and permafrost monitoring. 

Role in ACTRIS:

  • Coordinator within ACTRIS Austria
  • Contributions to aerosol and cloud measurements at Sonnblick

Retrievals:

    • Aerosol parameter
    • Cloud and precipitation measurements

Contact:

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anne Kasper-Giebl
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics
anneliese.kasper-giebl@tuwien.ac.at