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Atmosphere
The Atmosphere Research Flagship Programme brings scientists studying the atmosphere in Ny-Ålesund and Svalbard together to develop collaboration and joint research actions to tackle the challenge of climate change in the Arctic.
The Atmosphere Flagship focuses on measurements from the surface up to the upper atmosphere utilizing a wide array of different techniques and instruments.
Working groups
The Atmosphere Flagship has established eight working groups focusing on specific scientific questions. Each working group has one or two contact persons.
Background
The Atmosphere Research Flagship was initiated at a SSF workshop in Kjeller in 2008. The Atmosphere Flagship document describes the general flagship objectives, future research priorities, and gives an overview of institutions with atmospheric activities, and of atmospheric parameters measured in Ny-Ålesund.
In 2024, an online seminar series was initiated. The online seminars have partly been recorded, and the recordings or presentations are available to be viewed here:
The flagship has received funding from the Research Council of Norway through the Svalbard Strategic Grant for flagship activities on three occasions since 2015. Flagship activities have included:
- Establishing work groups focusing on specific scientific questions
- Independent work group meetings
- Symposia
- Guest visits
- Planning and organization of joint field work
- Jointly published papers
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Contact the flagship scientific committee
- Marion Maturilli, Alfred-Wegener Institute (Chair)
- Kim Holmén, Norwegian Polar Institute (Co-chair)
- Ove Hermansen, NILU
- Boris Ivanov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
- Grzegorz Karasiński, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Satheesan Karathazhiyath, NCAOR
- Yutaka Tobo, NIPR
- Vito Vitale, CNR
- Young Jun Yoon, KOPRI
- Libo Zhou, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Radovan Krejci, Stockholm University
- Christina A. Pedersen, Norwegian Polar Institute
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