ESF
Environmental Simulation Facility To Calibrate Airborne Ozone and Humidity Sensors
The ESF (Environmental Simulation Facility) operated by the Global Observation group provides a platform for investigating and comparing the performance of instruments used to measure ozone and humidity in air with accurate reference instruments under realistic atmospheric conditions.
It is currently used to calibrate the ICH sensors for the IAGOS research infrastructure and has been part of the JOSIE project since 1996. It has therefore been established as the WMO-GAW World Calibration Center for Ozone Sondes (WCCOS) as part of its quality assurance (QA) to evaluate the performance of various electrochemical ozone sondes and ensure the consistency of ozone sonde data.
In this context, the ESF was also used in the ASOPOS project (Assessment of Standard Operating Procedures for Ozone Sondes), with the intention of defining operating procedures that are easy to understand, can be consistently implemented and provide high-quality data that is comparable between ozone sounding stations.
Contact
Dr. Susanne Rohs
Senior Scientist Principal Investigator: Water Vapour
Torben Galle
Technical Associate