Atmospheric composition in the European Arctic and 30 years of the Zeppelin Observatory, Ny-Ålesund
- Author(s)
- Stephen M. Platt, Oystein Hov, Torunn Berg, Knut Breivik, Sabine Eckhardt, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Markus Fiebig, Rebecca Fisher, Georg Hansen, Hans-Christen Hansson, Jost Heintzenberg, Ove Hermansen, Dominic Heslin-Rees, Kim Holmen, Stephen Hudson, Roland Kallenborn, Radovan Krejci, Terje Krognes, Steinar Larssen, David Lowry, Cathrine L. Myhre, Chris Lunder, Euan Nisbet, Pernilla B. Nizetto, Ki-Tae Park, Christina A. Pedersen, Katrine Aspmo Pfaffhuber, T. Röckmann, Norbert Schmidbauer, Sverre Solberg, Andreas Stohl, Johan Strom, Tove Svendby, Peter Tunved, Kjersti Tornkvist, Carina van der Veen, Stergios Vratolis, Young Jun Yoon, K. E. Yttri, Paul Zieger, Wenche Aas, Kjetil Torseth
- Abstract
The Zeppelin Observatory (78.90∘ N, 11.88∘ E) is located on Zeppelin Mountain at 472 m a.s.l. on Spitsbergen, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago. Established in 1989, the observatory is part of Ny-Ålesund Research Station and an important atmospheric measurement site, one of only a few in the high Arctic, and a part of several European and global monitoring programmes and research infrastructures, notably the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP); the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP); the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW); the Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRIS); the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) network; and the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS). The observatory is jointly operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), Stockholm University, and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU). Here we detail the establishment of the Zeppelin Observatory including historical measurements of atmospheric composition in the European Arctic leading to its construction. We present a history of the measurements at the observatory and review the current state of the European Arctic atmosphere, including results from trends in greenhouse gases, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), other traces gases, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals, aerosols and Arctic haze, and atmospheric transport phenomena, and provide an outline of future research directions.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Meteorology and Geophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) , Norwegian Institute for Air Research, University of London, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Stockholm University, Norwegian Polar Institute, Korea Polar Research Institute, Utrecht University, University of Oslo, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSR)
- Journal
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Volume
- 22
- Pages
- 3321–3369
- No. of pages
- 49
- ISSN
- 1680-7316
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3321-2022
- Publication date
- 03-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105204 Climatology, 105206 Meteorology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atmospheric Science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/4157243d-5dc9-47b4-bf69-6ec2b84ba221