You will find below:

-Customs information for non-European participants

-Address where the intruments should be shipped to Crete

-Transport to Hania and accomodation in Crete during the campaign

-PAUR II List of people that will be present during the Cretan Campaign (please check for your name!)

-PAUR II Sum of Power Requirements (please check for your instruments!)

-Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's). Any new questions? You can post your questions regarding the Campaign: Just click general or technical, depending on the nature of your question.

-A database on material (data, maps...) relevant to PAUR II. Do you have relevant material to submit?

Customs clearance for participants

Non EU participants should arrange for CARNET ATA and consult with their customs. The carnet ATA is necessary for passing through customs the instrumentation brought to Crete. If you bring the intrumentation with you, you should carry the CARNET ATA with you. If you ship the instruments, the CARNET ATA should accompany the instruments. The best way might be to ship the instruments to the address given below, and arrange with the shipping company to pass the instruments through customs and deliver them to the Orthodox Academy of Crete.

European Union participants do not have to make any arrangements for customs.

Address where the intruments should be shipped to Crete

Please ship instrumentation that will be deployed in Crete to:

Orthodox Academy of Crete

GR-73006 Kolymbari-Chania

GREECE

tel.: +30-824-22245, 22500

fax: +30-824-22060

Transport to Hania and accomodation in Crete during the campaign

Accommodation for all participants of PAUR II campaign will take place in the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC), in Kolimbari, which is situated approximately 25 km west of Chania. LAP will arrange for the accomodation of those that wish to stay at OAC. Air temperatures in Chania in May range between 15^oC - 24^oC and relative humidity is about 64%.

Only those indicated with bold letters have confirmed, the rest is our guess...

Prases Village - HIGH ALTITUDE

Kolimbari - LOW ALTITUDE

Cruising vessel

TEMPORARY SUM 130 W

Answers to FAQ's

Transportation from Prasses to Kolimbari: Car rental. Please refer to http://www.areianet.gr/infoxenios/english/crete/hania/transport.html#byair for  car rental information.

LAP will NOT arrange:

Voltage converters (115 a 220 V): They should be brought by the groups whose instruments require 115 V.

Transportation of equipment from airport to sites: Please ship directly to OAC.

LAP is currently checking the following requests:

Arrangements for dark calibration room + 1000 W calibration lamp (METCON, IASB) at Kolimbari

CO measurements: We are not very optimistic about that...

Accomodation possibilities for 2 (ICCET) + 3 (CNR) persons at Prasses

 

The Lambedusa site

At present, the following instrumentation has been installed and is operational:

- Brewer MK IV # 123 (ozone calibration performed in May 1998, UV calibration performed in April 1999), ENEA
- Yankee Multi Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer, NOAA
- Solar Light UVA radiometer, NOAA
- Solar Light UVB radiometer, NOAA
- Yankee UVB-1 radiometer, NOAA
- Biospherical GUV-511 radiometer, NOAA
- Eppley Precision Spectral Pyranometer, NOAA
- Eppley Black and white pyranometer, ENEA
- Kipp and Zonen pyranometer, ENEA
- meteorological station, ENEA
- CO2 analyzer, ENEA

On May 3, the following instruments will be also installed at Lampedusa:

- Backscatter/depolarization lidar (532 nm), University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Aureole sensor POM-01L, CNR

The concentration of methane, N2O, CFC-11 and CFC-12 is also determined weekly by ENEA from collected gas samples.
The participation of an ultralight aircraft from the Fraunhofer Institut Atmosphaerische Umweltforschung,
equipped with an optical particle counter (FSSP-300), a condensation nuclei counter, an ozone photometer, a
global radiation pyranometer, and upward and downward looking UV-B radiometers is still uncertain, depending
on the approval of the flight authorizations.

Continuous observations will be collected from the first week of May to June 20.

Database on material relevant to PAUR II

Location of the two measuring sites in Crete

Meteorology: Directional frequencies of 96-hous trajectories arriving at Creta (a) and Lampedousa (b) during May 1997 (1000 hPa). The bars indicate the number of days when the air masses arriving at the two sites were originating from the respective direction. The trajectories were calculated using the Hybrid Single-Particle Langrangian Integrated Trajectory Model (HYSPLIT) developed at NOOA ARL (from D. Melas, DESUA).

Satellite image and weather forecast for the next 24, 48, 72, 96 or 120 hours (surface temperature, wind, rainfall, relative humidity, isobars) for East Mediterranean at http://www.forthnet.gr/weather/

Examples  of satellite images of dust storms affecting Eastern Mediterranean (from the Operational Significant Event Imagery site of NOAA): 15 Mar 1998 and 16 Mar 1998. If a significant dust event occurs during PAUR II, we might be able to see the satellite picture of it at http://www.osei.noaa.gov .