History of CO-PDD

The history of the observatory at the top of the Puy de Dôme began at the end of the 19th century under the leadership of Émile Alluard, professor of physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Clermont-Ferrand, who proposed to the political autorities to build a first mountain meteorology observatory at the top of Puy de Dôme, as well as a plain station in the center of Clermont Ferrand.

Subsequently, at the end of the 20th century, meteorological measurements were supplemented by measurements of reactive gases such as ozone and aerosol particles (black carbon) from 1995, greenhouse gases from 1999 and numerous other atmospheric measurements (radioactivity, cloud microphysics and biochemistry, etc.) since the 2000s. The Puy de Dôme measurements are supplemented by the Cézeaux site equipped with a lidar instrument and Opme, rural site equipped with rain gauges and radars

Contact : Géraldine Del Campo