Mötesplats Rydberg - Erik Swietlicki, "The Swedish Actris environmental research infrastructure"

Tuesday 30 Nov 2021, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Stockholm

On 22 September 2021, the Swedish Research Council announced their decision to fund ACTRIS Sweden, the Swedish node of the pan-European research infrastructure ACTRIS (Aerosol, Clouds, Trace gases Research Infrastructure). ACTRIS Sweden will now be established as a national research infrastructure, with six partners taking part in the 5-year Implementation Phase starting January 2022.

Erik Swietlicki, at the Physics Department of Lund University, is the national contact person for ACTRIS in Sweden and coordinator of ACTRIS Sweden.

The six partners involved in ACTRIS Sweden are: Lund University (coordinating), Stockholm University, Gothenburg University, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Umeå branch), the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute SMHI, and Uppsala University.

For scientific as well as logistical reasons, the ACTRIS Sweden strategy is to strictly co-locate all our sites with those of ICOS Sweden (Integrated Carbon Observation System).

ACTRIS performs long-term quality-assured observations of short-lived climate forcers (SLCF) – including aerosols, clouds and reactive trace gases. Researchers at Lund University are already conducting ACTRIS-related aerosol observations at the ICOS Sweden tall tower sites at Hyltemossa in southern Sweden.

The SLCF are consistently identified as the largest source of uncertainty regarding our ability to account for and predict the human impact on Earth´s radiative balance and thus also climate change. In addition, aerosols and trace gases have adverse health effects estimated to be responsible for more than 400 000 premature deaths annually in the EU-27.

With the funding received, ACTRIS Sweden will implement five co-located ACTRIS-ICOS stations along a north-south gradient, and two exploratory platforms, building on considerable pre-existing resources.

 

The meeting will be hybrid. We start 15 o'clock at the Rydberg Hall with coffee and cake. The talk starts 15:15. You can also join digitally in Zoom: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/910953381