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KIAOS

  • Contact:

    Andreas Zahn

  • Funding:

    KIT

  • Start Date:

    2024

  • End Date:

    permanent

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Karlsruhe Integrated Atmospheric Observation System (KIAOS)

KIAOS is a new focal initiative of the KIT for fostering the cooperation of the four world-class infrastructures in the atmospheric domain coordinated by the KIT, being AIDA, TERENO, KITcube and IAGOS-CARIBIC.

KIAOS also stands for Interoperable, Autonomous, Open and Seamless, which describes that the data of all the involved infrastructures shall finally be treated in a unified manner and then also accessed via one access point, the ATMOhub. Moreover, the four infrastructures cover all relevant spatial scales in the atmosphere, that is, from the micrometer scale (AIDA chamber) to the global scale (IAGOS-CARIBIC), see Figure.

One ultimate objective of KIAOS is to provide worldwide unique high-resolution multi-tracer data from the atmosphere over a large range of spatial scales to allow the process-specific validation of atmos-pheric (climate) models.

The four large KIT infrastructures in the atmospheric domain allied in KIAOS. The cover different spatial scales (last line) and focus on different atmospheric processes (third line, orange). They all detect many trace species and ambient (meteorological) parameters (second last line) which is essential to link the actual weather situation with the measured trace species concentrations and thus to study the (climate-relevant) processes prevailing during the different weather situations.