WMO-CIMO Testbed Hohenpeissenberg (Germany)
WMO-CIMO Testbed for GAW Observations of Reactive Gases and Aerosols, Hohenpeissenberg Meteorological Observatory (Hohenpeissenberg, Germany) |
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General Site Information
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For more than 230 years the Hohenpeissenberg Meteorological Observatory (MOHp) has been a permanent observing site in a rural landscape with the main focus on meteorological observations and, more recently, on precipitation processes, ozone and atmospheric composition. Mount Hoher Peissenberg is the most noteworthy elevation (989 m a.s.l.) of the Bavarian pre-alpine plateau north of the Alps. It overlooks the surrounding landscapes lying about 250 m below it. Monthly mean temperatures (1961 to 1990) vary between minus 1.6 °C (January) and plus 15 °C (July), while the mean annual precipitation (1961 to 1990) is about 1200 mm. Starting observations in 1781 the observatory holds the longest temperature time series of a mountain station world-wide. Since the late 1960s main research topics are: • ozone research, • is a climate reference site of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), • operates a WMO class II weather station including routine radio soundings and ozone, soundings two times (May to Oct) and three times (Nov to Apr) a week, • is a Global Station within the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) program (since 1994), • is a Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) station (since 1994), • is host of the Dobson Calibration Centre for the RA VI (since 1999), • is a Network for the Detection of Mesospheric Change (NDMC) station (since 2004) , • is an Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) station (since 2013) , • is an Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) station (since 2014), • is an European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET) station (since 2015). |
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Testbed location: | 47.801 °N; 11.011 °E | |
Climate type: | Cfb (maritime temperate, all year wet climate) | |
Contact person: | Dr Christian Plass-Dülmer | |
Email: | Christian.Plass-Duelmer@dwd.de | |
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Deutscher Wetterdienst |
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Tel: | +49 69 8062 9700 | |
Fax: | +49 69 8062 9707 | |
Website: | http://www.dwd.de/mohp | |
Further Information
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Biennial Reports | ||
Biennial Report - 2020 | ||