Aerosol Research Facilities

• Atmospheric Chemistry Department - Chamber (ACD-C)
• Leipzig Biomass Burning Facility
• LACIS
• Turbulent Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Interaction Simulator (LACIS-T)
• Free-jet flow system
• Photoreactors
• Knudsen cell
• Aqueous-phase laboratory

Physical Instruments

• ACTOS
• Airborne aerosol particle filter samplers
• Counterflow Virtual Impactor (CVI)
• CCNC
• The Hygroscopic Tandem DMA (H-TDMA and HH-TDMA)
• Off-line INP measurements
• The Mobility Particle Size Spectrometer

Remote Sensing

• Satellite data processing
• Lidar
• Raman Lidar
• Polarization lidar
• HSRL
• Dual-field-of-view lidar
• Cloud Radar
• Sun Photometry
• Microwave radiometry
• Ceilometer
• Radiosounding
• Radiation Measurement Station / BSRN
• Pyranometer Network
• Shadow-band radiometer
• Spectral extinction measurements
• Own developments

Chemical Analytics

• Overview
• Online Instrumentation
• Aerosol mass spectrometry techniques
• Offline Instrumentation
• Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence (TXRF)

Numerical modeling

• HAMMOZ
• COSMO-MUSCAT
• SPECS
• SPACCIM

Quality assurance of aerosol measurements

• Quality assurance
• AEROMET
• OGTAC-CC

IT

Algorithm Development

• Inversion of aerosol-microphysical properties from lidar data
• Studies for future satellite missions

Trans-National Access (TNA)