Projects & programmes

Questions shaped as
collaborative programmes.

Projects connect research themes with people, instruments, partners, funding, publications, datasets and field activities.

Urban emissionsAlpine forestsGlobal networksOpen methods
Illustration of scientific collaboration
Ongoing projects / partnershipsFWF P30600 · P33701 · EU MC 334084

Urban trace-gas fluxes

Long-term and campaign measurements constrain NOx, CO₂, methane and VOC emissions above Innsbruck.

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Ongoing projects / partnershipsIAO long-term observations

Urban methane sources

Eddy-covariance observations investigate diffuse, vertically distributed post-meter emissions from the built environment.

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Collaborative programmeFWF · Alpine ecosystems

Future of Mountain Forests

A multidisciplinary FWF programme studies how drier conditions affect carbon, water, plant stress and ecosystem services.

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Global networkPandora · NO₂ · O₃

Pandonia Global Network

Pandora spectrometers provide quality-controlled atmospheric column observations for satellite validation and atmospheric research.

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Interreg collaborationInterreg Italy–Austria

BREATHING

Cross-border collaboration connects air-quality observations and applied environmental monitoring in the Italy–Austria region.

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Instrument developmentIAO · IONICON

VOCentinel at IAO

A prototype for continuous, automated ambient VOC monitoring expands the observatory’s long-term chemical measurements.

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Open softwareAMT 2020 · Git repository

innFLUX

An open-source MATLAB workflow for conventional and disjunct eddy-covariance analysis of trace-gas measurements.

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Research infrastructureUrban–Alpine supersite

IAO long-term operations

Continuous observations are combined with focused intensive campaigns to connect chemistry, exchange and mountain meteorology.

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From research question to result.

Projects connect participating people, instruments, publications, datasets and new results.

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