Corona / COVID restrictions are released throughout Europe, giving us the chance to continue with our work in Iceland, though not yet in Greenland. The main campaign of HiLDA is postponed by one year to summer 2021, but the complete baseline monitoring is planned to start still in 2020.
So, the next working place for us will be Raufarhöfn in Northern Iceland, where we intend to install another baseline monitoring station. In addition, a wet and a dry deposition collector will be deployed. On the way to the North, we will have a stop at Mýrar for modifying the station and for collecting the first samples.
As a prototype of an autonomous N3 OPC is finished, we will setup another small station just with this instrument at Grímsstaðir á Fjöllum, which is located right in the middle between Raufarhöfn and the planned intesive observation period location just north of the Vatnajökull glacier.
Hopefully the next two weeks will allow for this work to be done… stay tuned!