AWIPEV Atmosphere Observatory with green laser beam of the lidar instrument. (Photo: G. Tran / Alfred Wegener Institute) At the Atmosphere Observatory of the AWIPEV research base in Ny-Ålesund , Svalbard [...] mast and BSRN radiation instruments at Neumayer Station, Antarctica. (Photo: H. Schmithüsen / Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In Antarctica, atmospheric research is split into two observatories at the Neumayer [...] Regions Svalbard, Arctic Atmosphere Observatory of AWIPEV-Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Svalbard is a key region of climate change in the Arctic. On the one hand it is close