• 50.305°N 5.998°E 490 m a.s.l.

Mobile platform

Belgium

• Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA)

• Crist Amelynck
  Facility PI
• Niels Schoon
  PI deputy
• Bert Verreyken
  PI deputy

Ground-based mobile exploratory platform for in situ reactive trace gases. The budget for upgrading this facility is now available and the facility is currently being adapted to fulfil the ACTRIS NF requirements.

The mobile facility aims at performing reactive trace gas measurements at locations which are not covered by the ACTRIS observational facilities or near/at observational facilities which lack instrumentation for online VOC measurements at high temporal resolution.
The scientific scope of the facility is to contribute to a better understanding of the processes affecting atmospheric composition (atmospheric oxidation, ecosystem/atmosphere exchange) through VOC and NOx measurements in a wide range of environments and weather conditions, and finally to better constrain (O)VOC budgets.