Zeppelin Station

Three-dimensional representation of the latitudinal distribution of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the marine boundary layer. Data from the NOAA CMDL cooperative air sampling network were used. The surface represents data smoothed in time and latitude. The Norwegian and Swedish flask sampling effort at Zeppelin Station is shown in the inset as flask monthly means. (Figure kindly provided by Dr Pieter Tans and Dr Thomas Conway of NOAA (CMDL).)... 

One of the stations, Zeppelin (ZEP), is located far north of the European mainland, on the Svalbard archipelago, 78°N. This far northern position creates many environmental drivers for the aerosol size distribution, almost never seen at the more southern stations. As the station is located north of the northern polar circle, the station is good part of the year in complete daylight (midnight sun), and in complete darkness (polar night). Although the data quality was not always optimal, some indication of the aerosol number size distributions can be made. 

Fig. 7 Features of Arctic station Zeppelin size distributions. Location of the station is shown in the inset...

Fig. 2.6 On May 5, 1937, at 19 25 the German zeppelin Hindenburg caught fire and was utterly destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New...

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