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Ozone layer and UV radiation

in a changing climate evaluated during IPY

(ORACLE -O3)

(A project during the International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY))



ORACLE-O3 is composed of 17 Expressions of Interest which can be downloaded as PDF files (see table).

EoI#
EoI Title
Principal Investigator
28
Trace gas Observations at the Primary Arctic NDSC Station Ny-Ålesund (Koldewey Station, Spitsbergen) (TOPAS)
Prof Justus Notholt
University of Bremen
222
The role of light and ultra-violet radiation in the biological and human environment  (Polar Light Effects)
Dr Ola Engelsen
NILU
312
Finnish Antarctic Research Programme on Polar Climate Change (FARPOCC)
Prof Esko Kyrö
FMI-Arctic Research Center
322 Ambient UV radiation in polar regions under changing climate conditions (AUVRUC)
Prof Gunther Seckmeyer
University of Hannover
371
Study of structure and mechanisms of changeability for atmospheric parameters, circulation and ozone content in the southern polar region with allowance for factors of solar activity. (Atmosphere of Antarctica)
Director Ivan Frolov
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
425
Lagrangian Observations with Lidar Investigations and Trajectories in Antarctica and Arctic, of PSC (LOLITA - PSC)
Dr Christine David
Service d'Aéronomie - IPSL
438
Future changes of climate, chemical composition, and UV at high latitudes (CCMProg (Chemistry-Climate Models for the Prognosis of Atmospheric Changes))
Dr Martin Dameris
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
542
Polar Ozone Loss (PO3L)
Dr Peter von der Gathen
AWI Potsdam
566
Polar clouds and the ozone layer in changing climate. (PSC&Cirrus)
Dr Niels Larsen
DMI
720
CANADA #3: Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment, ACE (ACE)
Prof Peter Bernath
University of Waterloo
808
Study of Ozone, UV irradiance and related parameters in relation wiTH polar ozone depletion in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions (SOUTH-O3)
Dr Sophie Godin-Beekmann
Service d'Aéronomie
833
Observational study on the formation and dissipation processes of Antarctic ozone hole using ozone sondes and ground-based Fourier-transform spectrometer at Syowa Station (Ozone hole observation by ozonesondes and FTIR at Syowa Station in the Antarctic)
Prof Kaoru Sato
University of Tokyo
871
Understanding polar atmospheric change using SCISAT
Director Dr Rejean Michaud
Canadian Space Agency
919
Airborne measurements in the Southern Polar Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere with the M-5 Geophysica high-altitude platform (Geophysica: Antarctic UTLS)
Dr Ugo Cortesi
Institute for Applied Physics "Nello Carrara" (IFAC-CNR)
923
Polar Ozone: Challenges from IGY to IPY (POCHES)
Prof Ivar Isaksen
President of IO3C
University of Oslo
1166
The ozone layer dynamics and climate changes (Ozone - Climate)
Dr Gennadi Milinevsky
National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv
1252
Dynamics, aerosols and bromine in the summer polar stratosphere (StraPo1Ete)
Dr Nathalie Huret
Universitie de`Orleans