Expression of Commitment
to COST Action ES0604
Water Vapour in the Climate System (WaVaCS)
i) Individual’s Name: Niklaus Kämpfer ( email: kaempfer@mw.iap.unibe.ch
jointly with Dr. Klemens Hocke
( email: hocke@mw.iap.unibe.ch)
ii) Organization Name & Address:
Institute of Applied Physics
University of Bern
Sidlerstr. 5
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
iii) Contribution:
a) Role in Action Chairman of WG 1, member of MC
b) Parts of the scientific programme where contributions will be made: D1
iv) Deliverables:
Management of WG1
Comparison and merging of data sets of water vapor profiles obtained by
microwave radiometry, balloon sondes and lidar. Retrieval techniques.
v) Timetable:
2008-2012 Ph.D. project
vi) Manpower approximately dedicated to the Action:
100% Ph.D. student
30% postdoc
10% expert
vii) Assurance:
The necessary resources to perform the task will be available.
viii) Foreseen collaboration:
Prof. Thomas Peter, IACETHZ
Pierre Jeannet, Meteo Swiss Payerne
ix) Previous experience:
Individual’s Name: Niklaus Kämpfer
More than twenty years experience in microwave remote sensing of the
atmosphere
Member of MC of COST-723
Member of the International Ozone Commission
Member of the Steering Committee of NDACC (Network for the detection
of atmospheric composition change change), the former NDSC
Member of the Swiss advisory board of Global Atmospheric Watch, GAW
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Swiss Korean Outstanding Research Efforts Award (SKORE-A), together
with Prof. J.J.Oh from the Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
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2000 - 2007
Acting director of the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP),
University of Bern
since 1994
Professor for Applied Physics, Head of Microwave department
at the IAP
1988-1994
Head of Atmospheric Physics group
Supervision of Diploma and Ph.D. students
Co-Principal Investigator of MAS on Space Shuttle
1990/99
Participation in different EC-projects such as SESAME,
EASOE, ESMOS, WAVE, EMCOR, COSE, EOUROSOLVE.
1983 - 1988
Management of the Space-Shuttle experiment Microwave
Atmospheric Sounder (MAS) at IAP.
x) Publications: (please list relevant publications)
Siegenthaler, A., O.Lezeaux, D. Feist and N. Kämpfer, First water vapor
measurements at 183 GHz from the high alpine station Jungfraujoch, IEEE,
Trans. On Geosc. And Remote Sensing, Vol. 39, No.9, p.2084-2086, 2001.
Calisesi, Y., H. Wernli, and N. Kämpfer. Midstratospheric ozone variability over bern
related to planetary wave activity during the winters 1994-1995 to 1998-1999.
J. Geophys. Res., 106(D8):7903–7916, April, 2001.
Kämpfer, N, B. Deuber, D. Feist, D. Gerber, C. Mätzler, L. Martin, J. Morland, and
V. Vasic. "Microwave remote sensing of water vapour in the atmosphere".
Geographica Helvetica, 58(2):81–89, 2003.
Calisesi, Y., R.Stübi, N.Kämpfer and P.Viatte, Investigation of systematic
unceratinties in balloon-borne Brewer-Mast ozone soundings using coincident
observations from a ground based microwave radiometer, J. of Atm. and Oc.
Tech, 20, 1543 -1551., 2003.
Gerber, D., I. Balin, D. Feist, N. Kämpfer, V. Simeonov, B. Calpini and H. van den
Bergh, "Ground-based water vapour soundings by microwave radiometry and
Raman lidar on Jungfraujoch (Swiss Alps), Atmospheric Chemistry and
Physics, vol.: 4, no.: 8, pp.: 2171-2179, 2004.
Deuber, B., N. Kämpfer, and D. G. Feist. "A new 22-GHz Radiometer for Middle
Atmospheric Water Vapour Profile Measurements". IEEE Trans. on Geoscience
and Remote Sensing, 42(5), May 2004.
Vasic, V., N.Kämpfer and A. Murk, "Quasioptical characterization of a mm-wave
receiver for atmospheric remote sensing", Optics and Lasers in Engineering,
vol.: 43, no.: 3-5, pp.: 303-315, doi: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2004.03.007, 2005.
Deuber, B., A. Haefele , D. G. Feist , L. Martin , N. Kampfer , G. E. Nedoluha , V.
Yushkov , S. Khaykin , R. Kivi , H. Vomel, "Middle Atmospheric Water Vapour
Radiometer - MIAWARA: Validation and first results of the LAUTLOS /
WAVVAP campaign", J. Geophys. Research, , 2005
Vasic, V., D. Feist, S. Müller and N. Kämpfer, "An airborne radiometer for
stratospheric water vapor measurements at 183 GHz", IEEE Trans. on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, No. 7, 1563-1570, 2005.
Deuber, B. , J. Morland , L. Martin and N. Kämpfer, "Deriving the tropospheric
integrated water vapor from tipping curve derived opacity near the line center
at
22.235 GHz",
Radio Science,
vol.:
40,
no.:
RS5011,
doi:
10.1029/2004RS003233, 2005
Dumitru, C., K. Hocke, N. Kämpfer and Y. Calisesi, "Comparison and validation
studies related to ground-base microwave observations of ozone in the
stratosphere and mesosphere", JASTP, Vol. 68, No. 7, 745-756, 2006
Feist D., A. Geer, S. Müller, W.Lahoz and N.Kämpfer, " Intercomparison of
stratospheric water vapour profiles from an airborne microwave instrument
with the ECMWF water vapour product", ACPD, 7, 247-287, (2007).
Hocke K., N. Kämpfer , D. G. Feist , Y. Calisesi , J. H. Jiang , S. Chabrillat,
"Temporal variance of lower mesospheric ozone over Switzerland during winter
2000/2001", Geophys. Res. Lettt., Vol.33, L09801, (2006)
Kämpfer, N., C.Mätzler, E. Broccard, D. feist, A. Haefele, K. Hocke, L. Martin, J.
Morland, S. Müller and M. Schneebeli, “ A University profile: Institute of
Applied Physics, University of Bern, Microwave remote sensing of the
atmosphere”, IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Society Newsletter, June, p 1317, (2006)
Morland J., B. Deuber, D. G. Feist, L. Martin, S. Nyeki, N. Kämpfer, C. Mätzler, L.
Vuilleumier: The STARTWAVE atmospheric water vapour database,
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 5, 10839-10879 (2005), and
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 6, p. 2039-2056 (2006),
www.atmos-chem-phys.net (2006)
Hocke K., N. Kämpfer, D. Ruffieux, L. Froidevaux, A. Parrish, I. Boyd, T. von
Clarmann, T. Steck, Y.M. Timofeyev, A.V. Polyakov, E. Kyrölä, „Comparison
and synergy of stratospheric ozone measurements by satellite limb sounders
and the ground-based microwave radiometer SOMORA“, ACPD, 7, p. 12131216, (2007)