The Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, have presented two studies in the “European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU) 2013”, which was held in Vienna (Austria) from 7 to 12 April 2013.This conference, organised by the European Geosciences Union and based on the geophysics research, has been an opportunity to present and review the current status of the research on the atmospheric water vapour isotopologues and atmospheric composition using remote sensing and in-situ techniques. More...

From March 17th to 21st, in the framework of the AERONET-PHOTONS-RIMA network, our colleagues Ramón Ramos (AEMET) and Carmen Guirado Fuentes (CSIC/AEMET) have been in Ouarzazate switching the Cimel Sun Photometer in operation during the last year for a newly calibrated one. During that period, an intensive course on the installation, running, maintenance and trouble-shooting of the sun photometer was given to the staff working in the facilities of the Direction de la Météorologie Nationale (DMN), Maroc-Meteo in Ouarzazate. This action More...

The paper titled “A statistical approach to quantify uncertainty in carbon monoxide measurements at the Izaña global GAW station: 2008–2011” has been published in the scientific journal “Atmospheric Measurement Techniques” (AMT) after being published in “AMT-Discussions” and passing satisfactorily the open peer-review process.The final reference of this paper is:Gomez-Pelaez, A. J., Ramos, R., Gomez-Trueba, V., Novelli, P. C., and Campo-Hernandez, R.: A statistical approach to quantify uncertainty in carbon monoxide More...

  The Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, have presented two studies in the “ACVE Conference 2013: Atmospheric Composition Validation and Evolution”, which was held in Frascati (France) from 13 to 15 March 2013.This conference, organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) on investigating of atmospheric composition, has been an opportunity to present and review the current status of atmospheric databases from remote sensors on board ERS-2 and Envisat. In addition results from Metop More...

On March 3 and 4, 2013 a deep Atlantic storm moved from west to east and hit the Canary Islands, causing a storm of wind and rain widespread throughout the archipelago, especially in the western islands. The highlands around the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory (Tenerife, 2,364 m a.s.l.), and the El Teide national Park, were affected by an episode of winds accompanied by weak to moderate rainfall.   IMAGE 1 Map of atmospheric pressure at sea level on the 4th March at 12Z. It can be seen that the isobars are very tight, indicating that More...

Dated January 26, 2013, the Technical Note #12 has been published at the AEMET’s web page. It deals with the radiative forcing of aerosols, water vapor and clouds using broadband irradiance measured with a Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR) at the Izaña Atmospheric Observatory. This Technical Note describes a methodology for estimating the global radiation forcing of certain atmospheric components, based on several radiative models, as well on the calibration of the broadband channel of the MFRSR radiometer in the same More...