In the process of building a denser network of environmental observatories for sizing particles we installed a Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS) and a water-based Condensation Particle Counter (TSI Model 3783) to CAO-AMX station on March 29, 2022.

CAO Technical and Scientific team is always on call and this time they have installed a Neutral cluster and Air Ion Spectrometer (Airel NAIS 522) at CAO Troodos.

Cavo Greco campaign was a 3-month campaign taking place between December 2021 and February 2022. The measurement site, located at 34°57’41”N and 34°04’57”E at the extreme South-East of Cyprus, approximately at 20 meters above sea level, was on the previous radio relay site.

Today the CAO team gathered on the roof of the NTL building to learn how to maintain and run the sun photometer, and also as a side effect enjoy a sunny but windy spring day.

At Ineia, north Paphos, the first data from the instrument Picarro G2401 arrived just before the festive season.

CAO’s Dr. Maximilien Desservettaz is joining the National observatory of Athens (GR) to study air pollution in one of the European most polluted cities: Ioannina.

Prof Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, PhD student Emeric Germain and technical expert Mr Pierre-Yves Quehe have relocated a Picarro (greenhouse gases) and Gas Chromatography (non-methane hydrocarbons) instruments in a mobile station at Capo Greko, on Cyprus east coast.

During mid-October 2021, mineral dust was suspended in the atmosphere over Cyprus, causing local residents to notice the appearance of “sand” in exposed surfaces across the island.