National Observatory of Athens, Institute for environmental research and susatinable development
SMASH Associate partner
Main goal of the Institute for Environmental research and sustainable development (IERSD) National Observatory of Athens (NOA) is the study of the environment following an integrated/multidisciplinary approach, performing leading edge research and providing high quality services. Currently, the Institute’s strategy is based upon the following pillars:
• Extension of its nation-wide weather monitoring networks and development of reliable databases.
• Integrated monitoring of environmental pressures, focusing on atmospheric quality, following multidisciplinary approaches and applying synergies between different methodologies and tools.
• Improvement of the understanding, monitoring and forecasting of meteorological parameters and their integration in methodologies tools and services.
• Development of tools and methodologies for the analysis of future climate projections in Europe/the Mediterranean Basin, the estimation of the impacts of climate change and the assessment of adaptation and mitigation strategies.
• Development of methodological tools for the assessment of the building energy performance to reach nearly-zero energy buildings (NZEB)
NOA is performing measurements focusing on characterizing primary organic aerosol (POA) emitted by cars and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as to examine the performance, collection and ionization efficiency of the Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor. In this context, IERSD will provide the institute’s Mobile Air Quality Monitoring Station, an Aerodyne Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor, and ancillary instrumentation for monitoring aerosol physical and chemical properties, as well as standard regulated pollutants.