@inproceedings{WeberFischerVogeletal.2013, author = {Weber, Konradin and Fischer, Christian and Vogel, Andreas and Pohl, Tobias and B{\"o}hlke, Christoph and Lau, Hendrik and Eliasson, Jonas and Palsson, Thorgeir}, title = {First results of an airborne release of volcanic ash for testing of volcanic ash plume measurement instruments}, series = {Recent Advances in Energy and Environmental Management}, volume = {Energy, Environmental and Structural Engineering Series 13}, booktitle = {Recent Advances in Energy and Environmental Management}, editor = {Mladenov, Valeri and Tasho, Tashev and Hui, Wang and Ivan, Kralov and Sergey, Stankevich and Pelin, Yildiz and Jon, Burley}, publisher = {WSEAS}, pages = {169 -- 172}, year = {2013}, subject = {Vulkanasche}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{WeberVogelReichardtetal.2012, author = {Weber, Konradin and Vogel, Andreas and Reichardt, Roland and Zimmermann, Thomas}, title = {Research aircraft flight for gas leakage investigation at the Elgin wellhead gas platform in the North Sea - initial results}, series = {Recent Researches in Environmental and Geological Sciences}, booktitle = {Recent Researches in Environmental and Geological Sciences}, editor = {Altawell, Najib and Konstantin, Volkov and Cristina, Matos and Fernandez de Arroyabe, Pablo}, publisher = {WSEAS}, pages = {240 -- 243}, year = {2012}, subject = {Forschungsflugzeug}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{VogelWeberFischeretal.2012, author = {Vogel, Andreas and Weber, Konradin and Fischer, Christian and Prata, A. J. and Durant, A. J.}, title = {Aircraft in situ and remote sensing measurements of emissions from Etna volcano, Sicily}, series = {Geophysical Research Abstracts: EGU General Assembly 2012}, booktitle = {Geophysical Research Abstracts: EGU General Assembly 2012}, publisher = {Copernicus}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Volcanoes emit particles (silicates and sulphate aerosol) and gases (e.g., water and sulphur dioxide) which influence the radiative balance of the atmosphere. The rate at which sulphur dioxide oxidises to sulphate aerosol is poorly constrained and measurements of downwind abundance are required to quantify the rate at which this process occurs. During July and November 2011, a series of measurements were performed in emissions from Etna Volcano, Sicily, using the University of Applied Sciences (Dusseldorf) research aircraft. Both in situ and remote sensing instrumentation was simultaneously deployed to quantify the down-wind characteristics of gases and particles in the plume emitted by the volcano. In situ particle characteristics were measured using a Grimm 1.109 optical particle counter (microparticles 0.25-32 microns) and Grimm 1320 diffusion electrometer (nanoparticles 25-300 nanometers). Column abundance of sulphur dioxide was measured using a vertically-pointing differential optical absorption spectrometer (DOAS). These measurements were compared to horizontal pathlength-integrated measurements of sulphur dioxide from the Airborne Volcanic Imaging Object Detector (AVOID). Down-wind plume dispersion was discriminated through a series of aircraft transects below and through the volcanic plume. The emissions contained large amounts of nanoparticles relative to microparticles, which reflects gas-phase nucleation of sulphate aerosol. The AVOID system discriminated horizontal layering of volcanic aerosol at altitudes of up to 12,000 ft from a detection range of >50 km. Plume boundaries were discriminated using a combination of the in situ and DOAS measurements in order to compare to the pathlength-integrated measurements from AVOID.}, subject = {Forschungsflugzeug}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{WeberFischerLangeetal.2015, author = {Weber, Konradin and Fischer, Christian and Lange, Martin and Pohl, Tobias and B{\"o}hlke, Christoph and Wagner, Frank and Mattis, Ina and Flentje, Harald and Sturm, Klaus and Barth, Joachim and Steinkopff, Thomas and Vogel, Andreas}, title = {Aircraft measurements compared with ceilometer measurements during a sahara dust period in Germany}, series = {Geophysical Research Abstracts: EGU General Assembly 2015}, volume = {17}, booktitle = {Geophysical Research Abstracts: EGU General Assembly 2015}, publisher = {Copernicus}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, year = {2015}, abstract = {A significant Sahara dust event took place at the beginning of April 2014 over large areas of Germany and Europe. The German Weather Service (DWD) detected and monitored the expansion and propagation of this dust cloud with a ceilometer network of more than 50 ceilometers. Moreover, these ceilometers were also able to track the altitude of the dust cloud at the positions of the ceilometers. Additionally, aircraft measurements over Germany and France were performed with two aircraft by the Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences. These aircraft were equipped with optical particle counters (OPC) and were able to measure the particle size distribution within the Sahara dust cloud and as a result of this to calculate the particle mass concentration of the dust. The ceilometer measurements and the aircraft measurements complemented each other: whereas the ceilometers gave continuous information about the Sahara dust cloud at the ceilometer positions, the aircraft measurements delivered interpolating results between the ceilometer positions. Moreover, at several ceilometer positions intercomparison flights were performed by spiraling with the aircraft up or down around the ceilometer laser beam. This gave the unique possibility for comparing the remote sensing results of the ceilometers with the in-situ measurements of the aircraft. This study shows that a significant high amount of Saharan dust particles was transported over Germany during a several days long episode. Furthermore, the intercomparison study between the German ceilometer network and aircraft measurements results shows a good agreement. A combination of these techniques could help to detect the vertical and horizontal distribution of the dust cloud and additionally the particle mass concentration.}, subject = {Deutscher Wetterdienst}, language = {en} }