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Luis-Our site manager
Above: Luis Mendes-Site Manager for the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory.

Measurements being made at the site include O3, CO, NO, NO2, dimethyl sulphide (DMS), reactive halocarbons, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), oxygenated volatile organic compounds (o-VOCs), IO, BrO, aerosol measurements, greenhouse gas measurements, and a meteorological suite (See Table below for details).
CO, O3, NOxy

Fig 1: O3, CO and NOxy instruments

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Instrument

 Timescale of Measurements

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O3 Model 49C Photometric Analyser-Thermo Model 202 UV Absorption-2B Technologies October 2006- present
 Specifications:-Thermo, 2B

These are FGAM instruments.
Katie Read
CO Aerolaser 5001 October 2006- present Katie Read
NO/NOx/NOy Air Quality Design Inc October 2006- present 1 channel system

 This is an FGAM instrument.
 James Lee/ Sarah Moller
GC
Fig 2: GC-FID for VOC measurement
 C2-C8 NMHC and lightweight o-VOC Dual channel automated GC-FID October 2006- present

A similar system was deployed in the field for the NAMBLEX and TORCH campaigns.

Hopkins et al. (2002)   Lewis et al, (2005)

This is an FGAM instrument. 		Katie Read
Halocarbons Automated GC-MS May 2007-present
 More information

This is an FGAM instrument.
 Dickon Young
BrO, IO, OIO, I2

DOAS

 November 2006-June 2007
Anoop Mahajan/Hilke Oetjen
met
Fig 3: 10m tower with meteorological instrumentation and main sampling manifold
MAX-DOAS
Fig 4: MAX-DOAS
gc-ms
Fig 5: GC-MS

RADIOMETER
Fig 6: Spectral Radiometer
 		Wind speed, wind direction, atmospheric pressure, temperature and relative humidity, radiation Automatic Weather Station at 4m, 10m and 30m.
 October 2006- present Barometric Pressure sensor,
Temp and Rel. Hum,       
 Wind monitors, 
Pyranometer 

These are FGAM instruments.

 Katie Read
Cloud Height
 Ceilometer
 January 2008-present
Katie Read
Chemical Charcterisation of Aerosol PM10, PM2.5, PM1
 HiVOL Sampler, Digitel DHA-80 subsequent AAS, PIXE, thermographic methods, CE-MS, GC-MS
DMPS (3-900 nm)
 November 2006-present
Nicole Kaaden: kaaden@mail.tropos.de,
or Konrad Muller : konrad@mail.tropos.de.
Physical Characterisation of Aerosol
 5-stage Berner impactor
 June 2008-present
Alfred Wiedensohler
JO1D



CO2, CH4, N2O, CO, SF6, the ratio of O2/N2, and Ar/N2 and the isotope ratios 13C/12C and 18O/16O on CO2 and O2 weekly flask sampling
 January 2007-present
Lena Kozlova
Martin Heimann
O2, N2, SF6,CH4,N2O  Gas Chromatography
 October 2008-present
 The same system was deployed in Siberia prior to its deployment at the CVAO.  See Kozlova et al., 2009 for more details.  Lena Kozlova
CO2
 NDIR
 October 2008-present
Lena Kozlova
O2
 O2 Paramagnetic instrument
 October 2008-present
Lena Kozlova

The University of Hamburg have supplied a spectral radiometer.  Contact Mayk Fischer :mayk.fischer@zmaw.de.

The University of Lancaster and the Oceanographic Institute at Southampton have filter samplers at the Observatory.  For more details contact Matt Patey at:  mpatey@noc.soton.ac.uk and Luca Nizzetto at: luca.nizzetto@uninsubria.it or Rosalinda Gioia at : r.gioia@lancaster.ac.uk.

Radiosonde measurements are made on the nearby island of Sal, providing information on the physical structure of the boundary layer.

A Multi-Axis DOAS from the Institute for Environmental Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany (http:\\www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de) is now also in place to provide information on the optical properties of aerosols, IO and BrO measurements (U. Platt, U. Frieß and J. Balbo).

 During short term "intensive campaigns" further measurements could be added to this suite, e.g. RHaMBle, SOS

(Future campaigns/measurements at the site)

If you would like to do some science at the CVAO please complete the facility request form and e-mail to km519@york.ac.uk.