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Research Activities and Projects, 2001 - 2006



 2003-2006    Ph.D. student at Empa/ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich)
2001-2003    Scientist at Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology),
                    Dübendorf, Air Pollution/Environmental Technology Lab
 

POLTRASAT (Pollution Transport to Switzerland inferred from Satellite Observations); Project Leader: Daniel Schaub

Supported by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) and Empa. The project started in May 2003 and aimed in evaluating the usability of space-borne measurements from GOME and SCIAMACHY for air pollution surveillance purposes, for the assessment of pollution transport to Switzerland and for estimating emissions.

 

TEMIS (Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service); Project Leader: Dr. Andrea Weiss

TEMIS is a project supported by the Data User Programme (DUP) from the European Space Agency (ESA). Observations from space-based instruments such as GOME on ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY on ENVISAT are processed and data sets of several tropospheric compounds are generated and open to public via the World Wide Web.

 

ACCENT-TROPOSAT-2 (AT2)

 

POLPO (Pollution Hot Spot Monitoring from GOME Applied to the Po-basin); Project Leader: Dr. Andrea Weiss

Within the framework of the POLPO project supported by the Data User Programme (DUP) from the European Space Agency (ESA), large pollution plumes are monitored by combination of ground measurements (Swiss National Network for Air Quality Monitoring, NABEL), ground-based column measurements (DOAS at Monte Cimone) and column measurements from GOME.

 

SOGE (System for Observation of Halogenated Greenhouse Gases in Europe); Project Leader: Dr. Stephan Reimann

SOGE is an integrated system for observation of halogenated greenhouse gases in Europe (Mace Head, Irland; Jungfraujoch, Switzerland; Spitsbergen, Norway; Monte Cimone, Italy). The integrated system is used to verify emissions in Europe down to a regional scale.

 

HALCLIM (Continuous Measurements of Halogenated Greenhouse Gases at the Jungfraujoch); Project Leader: Dr. Stephan Reimann

Similar to the SOGE project but focussing to Switzerland. Supported by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU).

 

NABEL (Swiss National Network for Air Quality Monitoring); Project Leader: Dr. Christoph Hüglin (formerly Dr. Brigitte Buchmann)

The main objective of the Swiss National Network for Air Quality Monitoring (NABEL) is the long-term observation of air quality in the whole of Switzerland. The 16 NABEL stations represent the most common immission situations in Switzerland. Empa operates the NABEL by order of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU).