ACTRIS National Facility AIDA

IMK-AAF operates the AIDA (Aerosol Interaction and Dynamics in the Atmosphere) facility since 1997 for laboratory-based research on atmospheric trace gas, aerosol and cloud processes of relevance for air pollution, weather and climate. It consists of the newly developed “dynamic” cloud simulation chamber AIDAd and the “classic” atmospheric simulation chamber AIDAc.

Right now, AIDAc is replaced by the new atmospheric simulation chamber AIDAc2 (AIDA "cold&clean") with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework of the Strategy „Research for Sustainability" (FONA) and the ACTRIS-D project. After full implementation in 2026, the AIDA facility will be part of the KIAOS (Karlsruhe Integrated Atmospheric Observatory System) infrastructure at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Helmholtz Program topic “The Atmosphere in Global Change (ATMOchange)”, and will also be operated as Exploratory Platform and user facility within the ACTRIS National Facility Network.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the implementation of the AIDA facility within the framework of the Strategy „Research for Sustainability" (FONA) (BMBF funding codes: 01LK2001B).