Instrumentation Practical Session at the Atmospheric Sciences Workshop

Organised by Stephane Bauguitte and Tamsin Gray, this hands-on instrumentation practical session will give the workshop participants chance to find out what it's like to set up an autonomous ozone monitoring station in Antarctica. In remote environments it is often necessary to set up a stand alone, fully autonomous system, where measurements can be made and data can be logged, stored and retrieved without the need for the site to be visited regularly. The following topics will be covered:

Ozone measurements in the Antarctic
Data logging and storage
Logger programming
GPS time fixing
Low power remote power systems including wind, solar and battery
Interfacing
Satellite telemetry capability
Disposable drifting experiments

An engineer will also be on hand to answer questions relating to the unique challenges posed by measurements in the polar regions, and a tour of the meteorological instrumentation we have set up at Cambridge will be given by Steve Colwell.