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YES, we know, this is a very plain if not to say old-fashioned home-page. But, we hope, that you find the information you are looking for. If not, please contact us via info@metair.ch
Perhaps we will completely revise it for our 20th anniversary in 2010


MetAir

Applied atmospheric physics and air pollution meteorology
airborne measurements and consulting (since 1990)
 
AG fuer angewandte Atmosphaerenphysik und Lufthygiene
Flugmessungen und Beratung (seit 1990)

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ECO-Dimona HB-2335, photo J.M. Hacker, August 2000
Our  research aircraft in operation since 1998: ECO-Dimona
unsere 'ECO-Dimona' im Einsatz um den Mont Blanc (August 2000)

Both an advanced, and ecologically sound airborne measuring platform...

two seated, self-launching powered glider (Dimona HK-36 TTC ECO)
silent, low fuel consumption, but 150...200 km/h cruising speed / 5 h endurance
underwing-pods with two times 50 kg for equipment (scientific instruments);

... with state of the art sensors for meteorology, and chemistry...

System description (conference paper from January 2001) as PDF-File

or see a poster (320 kB .pdf) or a presentation (4.3 MB .pps) about our system



to read more --->          VeröffentlichungenPublications

other news:
Roll-Out der ZHAW-Drohne UMARS als erster Schritt zu einer neuen Messtechnik: Poster.
The MetAir flight operations and travel 2009 were again fully compensated via myclimate with projects in Switzerland.
Wir fliegen klimaneutral: Alle Emissionen der Flugeinsätze und Reisen 2009 wurden wiederum via myclimate in der Schweiz kompensiert.

The season 2009 with FLUXPAT and MAIOLICA (the latter with a new optional instrument for CH4) has been completed succsessfully;
updated
instrument table, pictures, a flyer, and a joke
The CO2-emissions of our operation 2008 were compensated via myclimate.
We are happy that we could successfully complete the following projects (including EUFAR-TA) in 2008:
FLUXPAT (3 campaigns): Regional patterns of fluxes, supported by hyper spectral observations, photos;
REGAFLUX:
Anthropogenic emissions of the city of Muenster, fluxes on the downwind side, photos;
REGAN: Lagrangian concentration patterns and profiles of CO2, H2O and CO over the Netherlands (some photos in the FLUXPAT gallery);
ALPRIV:
Laser Scanning in the Austrian Alps, note;
TIPPEX: Regional patterns of fluxes of CO2, H2O and CO over the Northern Australian Savanna, photos;
OXK: Regional representativeness of the tower measurements on the tall tower "Ochsenkopf", photos;
- SHARE/Egrett: Small High Altitude Research Aircraft via ZHAW & MetAir in Europe?
- fourth and fifth campaign near Bordeaux (CERES-07 within CarboEurope) completed in April & Sept; location and photo gallery
- COPS and COCA/Transregio completed successfully in July and August 2007
- Bruno Neininger ist seit September 2006 Dozent für Meteorologie im Studiengang Aviatik an der ZHAW
- 4 month stay in Adelaide (Australia) completed in August 2006, co-operating with Flinders University and
ARA, ready for new tasks in Europe
- EUFAR project INNOX completed (Jan 23 to Feb 2 near Innsbruck, photo gallery)
- CarboEurope RegionalExperiment (in Le Landes/French Atlantic coast) completed; quick-look data and photo gallery.

... tested in >65 international measuring campaigns (>650 flights, >2500 h for research)
  beginning with POLLUMET (1990 to 1994), TRACT (1992), EU-VOTALP, EU-ECOMONT, LOOP, BERLIOZ, ESQUIF, MAP;
near Geneva, Berne, Milano, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Grenoble,
and in several Alpine valleys  (e.g. around Mont Blanc in August 2000),
then COCA, AEROCARB/CarboEurope, FORMAT, Interreg III.
Links and photo galleries to more recent projects see "other news" above.
For the scientific results please check the literature references.
and for projects "in the tube" (not yet published), we would be happy to answer your questions when you contact us.

... operated by experienced pilots, and scientists (mostly educated at ETH Zuerich),
in co-operation with the research institutes FZJ, and  PSI,
sharing experience and enthusiasm for small research aircraft with ARA (Tri-Annual Report 2005-2007)

Homebases near Zurich (Switzerland)
Seit Februar 2001 sind wir in Hausen am Albis (LSZN) stationiert (zuvor Bern-Belp); Webcam 
Team:
Bruno Neininger, Dr. sc. nat., dipl. Phys. ETH, CEO  (bruno.neininger@metair.ch)
plus a pool of several qualified pilots and other freelancers such as chemistry experts.
plus variable Anzahl freier Mitarbeiter sowie engagierte und hilfsbereite Verwaltungsräte

Other activities / weitere Aktivitäten:

General meteorological consulting, especially Alpine meteorology;
Wetterberatung, Spezialitaet Gebrigsmeteorologie;

modelling of thermal convection/mixing above complex terrain both for soaring weather and environmental meteorology;
Initiierung, Mitentwicklung und Einsätze des Modelles ALPTHERM für Thermikprognosen
und im Rahmen von Umweltmeteorologischen Studien.
Von Dritten weiter entwickelte Modellvarianten sind
bei MeteoSchweiz via NZZ Wetter und unter DWD Flugwetter als pc_met/TOPTHERM im Einsatz.

education in meteorology for soaring flight;
Vorträge und Kurse zum Thema Wetter;
langjährige Erfahrung im Medienbereich (TV/Radio).


This 'Stemme S10' (HB-2217) was in service with MetAir until 1997 (sold in Dec 2000);
it was our first motorglider equipped with large underwing pods and had excellent flying performance.
Die 'Stemme S10' war das erste Flugzeug von MetAir, welches mit grossen Instrumentenbehältern
(pods) unter den Flügeln ausgestattet war und mit hervorragenden Flugleistungen bestach.

 
Stemme S10 HB-2217, photo Katrin Nodop, ISPRA, 1993

 

Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns für Fragen und Anregungen
Please contact us for further questions and remarks
info@metair.ch