IASOA

New Funding for PEARL

Eureka's Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory in Nunavut has been awarded a grant through CANDAC to sustain core operations. Click here to learn about sustained operations moving forward.

Summit Station News

Researchers from Summit Station's ICECAPS project were in the news at NSF this week for their recent Nature publication explaining the role of thin, low-lying clouds in Greenland's widespread surface melt last summer. Click here for the NSF news summary.

Join IASOA at AOS

The first Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is to be held in Vancouver, Canada 30-Apr to 02-May. We welcome your comments on our community white paper. Click here for a copy.

IASOA will also host an IASC-sponsored half day workshop on 03-May to craft its contributions to the 2013 Arctic Report Card. Please contact Sandy Starkweather for more details on participating in the workshop.

News from Ny-Aalesund

The 31st edition of the Ny-Ålesund Newsletter is now available. Click here to learn about plans for new radiation instruments at Zeppelin and new greenhouse gas flux measurements on the Amundsen Nobile Climate Change Tower (CCT).

Expansions at St.Nord

Aarhus University has begun the construction of a modern research station in northern Greenland that will monitor how climate change is affecting the region.

Click here for the full story.

DOE ARM Facility RFP

Request for Preproposals
Scientific Research at the ARM Climate Research Facility
U.S. Department of Energy

Preproposal deadline: Friday, 1 February 2013

To submit a proposal, please go click here.

Polar Met Call

The 12th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography is being held 29Apr - 02May, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Abstracts are due January 14, 2013. Click here for more information.

2012 Arctic Report Card

The latest Arctic Report Card was released at AGU on December 5. Atmospheric results from the annual roll-up include updates on 2012 temperature anomalies as well as greenhouse gas and UV baseline measurements from Arctic observatories. Observations show that increases from human sources in greenhouse gases continue, while warm air temperature anomaolies were relatively small compared to the last decade. Click here for more information.

IASOA at WMO-GCW

Represenatives from the IASOA consoritum will travel to Vienna, Austra Nov 20-22, 2012 for the First WMO-GCW-CryoNet Implementation meeting to share IASOA experiences with network coordination in a pan-Arctic context and contribute to areas of common value for the co-development of IASOA and CryoNet. Click here for more information and look for updates after the meeting.

First Tiksi Science Mtg

The first Tiksi Science Meeting was held in at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg, 18-20 Sept 2012. A summary of the presentations and work plan can be found here.

Input Requested

On The observational needs for climate modelers in the polar regions. Click here to access the document and provide your feedback. Author contact information is provided in the document.

Arctic News in SOTC 2011

Read about changes to the Arctic atmosphere in this briefing on highlights from the 2011 BAMS State of the Climate Report. For access to the full report, click here.

IASOA's New Newsletter

IASOA distributed its first quarterly newsletter to 200 contacts last week. Click here to see the newsletter and subscribe today!

Ozone News, BROMEX Blog

Click here to read about Paul Shepson's work in the news. And click here for a link to the Barrow-based March BROMEX campaign blog.

Update - CREATE 2012

NSERC's CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science has announced new opportunities for 2012 graduate and undergraduate programs. Click HERE for more information.

PEARL in the News

Researchers Jim Drummond and Kim Strong discuss the role of Canada's Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) near Eureka, Canada in the detection and understanding of 2011's record-sized Arctic ozone hole. Click here for the full article in the Montreal Gazette.

Cherski in the News

To learn about the role that Cherski plays in permafrost studies, click here to see NBC's Jim Maceda report on a trip to visit Sergei and Nikita Zimov at the station.

2011 Arctic Report Card

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

The 2011 update of the web-based Arctic Report Card is now available:

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/

Responding to Change

International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC), in partnership with the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, announces:

Responding to Arctic Environmental Change Workshop: Translating Our Growing Understanding into a Research Agenda for Action

Jan 30, 2012 - Feb 1, 2012

Click here for more info.

Workshop Announcement

Workshop on Polar Simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model.

November 2 and 3, 2011

Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio USA

There is no registration fee. You are invited to attend! For more details or to register online: http://polarmet.osu.edu/workshops/pwrf_2011/

New UNIS Course

The Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Local Climate Processes

Objective: After the course, the student will have an understanding of physical processes typical for the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer, how the Arctic boundary layer differs from that at lower latitudes; the challenges of taking meteorological measurements and a basic understanding of how numerical models in the Arctic work.

Registration Deadline: 15.Oct.2011

For more information about the course and how to apply, see http://www.unis.no

Black Carbon

Is black carbon contributing to the warming of the Arctic? Click here to read about an international study currently taking place in the Arctic to investigate the role of black carbon in Arctic warming.

CREATE Summer School

CREATE Summer School addressing the broad theme of Arctic Atmospheric Science, will be offered from July 11 to 15, 2011 in Alliston, Ontario. Details are HERE.

CANDAC Outreach Update

In March/April 2011, CANDAC launched a new outreach project called Student-Researchers Atmospheric Collaboration at Qarmartalik School in Resolute Bay, Nunavut and Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. HERE

Tiksi Update 2011

Successful site visit by FMI HERE

SOA Conf Resolution

The March 16-19, 2010 State of the Arctic Conference has published a final resolution and access to presentations HERE

Arctic Calendar

ARCUS/IASC/AOSB Arctic Calendar

Can we help you?

Did you find what you needed? If not, click here to contact IASOA.

Eureka, Canada

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Eureka

Location: 80.050 N, 86.417 W, 10 m asl (32.8 ft asl)

Governing Institution: Canadian Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Change (CANDAC)

Station Director: Pierre Fogal (Pierre.Fogal@utoronto.ca)

CANDAC Partners: These institutions provide instrumentation and expertise in the analysis of Arctic tropospheric and upper atmospheric measurements.

University of Toronto (Canada)

Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) (Canada)

Dalhousie University (Canada)

University of Brunswick (Canada)

University of Sherbrooke (Canada)

University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Western Ontario (Canada)

York University (Canada)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (U.S)

University of Wisconsin (U.S)

Main web site: http://candac.ca/candac/index.php

CANDAC Facilities: The Eureka Observatory consists of three facilities:

PEARL - 15km from the Eureka Observatory

OPAL - located at the northwest quadrant of the observatory

SAFIRE - 5km from the observatory

Site News: The NOAA SEARCH team visited Eureka July 3rd-July 10th, 2009. Visit the Eureka Travel Blog for information about the trip.

Topography: Eureka is located on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, the northernmost of Canada's three territories (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon). The first inhabitants of Ellesmere Island were the Inuits who arrived 4,000 years ago. Since its founding in 1947 with the installation of a weather station, Eureka has served primarily as a research base. Research staff inhabit Eureka year round with the population increasing during the summer and dwindling to 10 or less during the winters. The only other permanent Arctic research site farther north is Alert. At 80N, Eureka is well north of the treeline where the main biome is tundra. Arctic mammals such as the polar bear, arctic fox, caribou, muskox, narwhale, and walrus frequent Ellesmere Island and its surrounding waters. Geological features in the area include glaciers, low mountains, and the ocean. The Quttinirpaaq National Park is located to the north of Eureka and encompasses 1/5 of the island's surface area.

Table of Measurements

Station Identifier: 71917

Station Abbreviations: WEU, EUK, and STN315

Eureka Global Atmosphere Watch - Station Information System (GAWSIS)

Measurement/Instruments	Time Period	PIs/Organization
OPAL
High-spectral resolution lidar		E. Eloranta (Univ. of Wisconsin)
Millimeter wave cloud radar		D. Hudak (Env. Canada)
Parsivel optical disdrometer		D. Hudak (Env. Canada)
Polar atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer		K. Strong (Univ. of Toronto)
Precipitation occurrence sensor system		D. Hudak (Env. Canada)
Rayleigh/Mie/Raman lidar		T. Duck (Dalhousie Univ.)
SkiYMET VHF meteor wind and temperature radar		A. Manson (Univ. of Saskatchewan)
Star photometer		N. O'Neill (Univ. of Sherbrooke)
Vaisala visibility and present weather sensor		D. Hudak (Env. Canada)
Tropospheric ozone lidar		J. Whiteway (York Univ.)
PEARL
Aerosol (Aerosol mass spectrometer, Cimel sun photometer #401, Cimel sun photometer #327)		J. Sloan (Univ. of Waterloo)
Sky cover (All sky imager)		W. Ward (Univ. of New Brunswick)
Chemistry (Bomem Fourier transfrom infrared spectrometer, Bruker Fourier transform IR spectrometer)		H. Fast (MSC) K. Strong (Univ. of Toronto)
Ozone (Brewer spectrophotometer)		T. McElroy (AES)
UV Radiation (Brewer spectrophotometer)
Radiance (Cimel sun photometer #401, Cimel sun photometer #327)		N. O'Neill (Univ. of Sherbrooke)
Precipitable water (Cimel sun photometer #327)
E-Region wind interferometer		W. Ward (Univ. of New Brunswick)
Spectral airglow temperature imager		M. Shepherd (York Univ.)
Stratospheric ozone lidar		R. Sica (Univ. of Western Ontario)
UV-visible grating spectrometer		K. Strong (Univ. of Toronto)
Meteorology - surface (Weather station)		P. Fogal (Univ. of Toronto)
SAFIRE
Wind and turbulence tracker VHF radar		S. Argall (Univ. of Western Ontario)
Flux tower		T. Uttal (NOAA)
Energy balance (Baseline surface radiation measurements)		B. McArthur (Env. Canada)
Information for this table obtained from http://candac.ca/candac/Instruments/instrumentsinventory.php?type=Inventory

Data archives:

NOAA SEARCH data

University of Wisconsin HSRL data (plus MMCR, PAERI, MWR, and Radiosonde data)

Derived cloud parameters from AERI, MMCR, and HSRL data at Eureka (August 2005 - present)

Informational links:

WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch Station Information System (GAWSIS) for Eureka

Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign at Eureka

Current weather at the PEARL weather station

Current weather at the Environment Canada station

Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Observatory

Canadian Ozone and Ultraviolet Measurement Program

Eureka in the News:

"Winter Habits of Northern Wolves Revealed"

"A Day in the life of Eureka"

"Voyage to the top of the Earth (Almost)"

"The Loneliest Science Lab in the Arctic"

See the Eureka station on YouTube

All information on this page was gathered from the web sites listed above. We welcome your comments - if you have any additions or corrections that apply to this page, please forward them to lisa.darby@noaa.gov.

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