| Italian Climate Change Tower Integrated Project |
| 16 February 2010 |
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Inaugurated in Ny Alesund, Norway
In January the Italian National Research Council inaugurated a new monitoring station in the Arctic Region, the “Amudsen-Nobile Climate Change Towerâ€. A similar structure had already been installed at the Italian-French station of Concordia. on the Antarctic Plateau. The new tower is located in Ny Alesund, in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway, where Italy has established a scientific base since 1997. The site is an important international base for research in all sciences involving the arctic marine, terrestrial and atmospheric environments, due to the ideal position to monitor the combined effects of climate change affecting the atmosphere, as well as the ocean and land. The new CCTower will be part of this system of international monitoring sites studying the atmospheric physics and working for the better understanding of causes and consequences of climate change and global warming. It is equipped with a large set of instruments which will allow researchers to deeply investigate the physical and chemical properties of the atmosphere, and the radiation, chemical substances, and exchange fluxes of mass at the atmosphere-land interface." |
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