ALOMAR’s instrumentation can monitor all atmosphere layers starting almost from the ground up to the ionosphere. Thus the scientific aims vary from environmental observations of aerosol pollutants or the relevance of cirrus particles for climate in the troposphere, to noctilucent clouds close to the mesopause or to magnetic substorms and northern lights in the lower thermosphere and ionosphere.
The user science operation centre (USOC), which recently has been completely refurbished, provides coordination between ALOMAR and balloon, rocket or other airborne campaigns. Wide screen presentation of online data from Andøya, northern Norway and the 1 Gbit/s real time data connection to Svalbard make the USOC facility a unique tool for co-ordination and communication under all kinds of field campaigns.
ALOMAR Na Lidar