The "Eboli Borgo Cioffi" permanent weather station is active from July 2002. It's an infrastructure of absolute importance to national and european level because it aims to research and monitoring of the interactions between agriculture and the atmosphere.

This station located at 36,48 m asl permits to collect data on budget of local and regional carbon and nitrogen and air quality, with connection with the aerial and remote sensing measurements.

Monitoring is continuous and carried out by different measurement platforms and sensors and transducers for in situ measurements and remote sensing.

1 . Measurement platforms :

• permanent station consists of a container self- conditioned and equipped with link for remote access to data and images in real time ..

• Mobile laboratory (Lamb - Mobile Lab of Biometeorology ) for measures itinerant CO2 concentrations . N2O , CH4 , NH3 by Tunable Diode Lasers quantum cascade . Lamb is temperature controlled and equipped with UPS and generators. Links allow remote transmission of data and images in real time.

• eras : the two light aircraft Sky Arrow ERA specifically equipped for measurements of turbulent exchange and remote sensing are stationed at approx 10 km away and detect conduct periodic site and landscape. The description of the aircraft is on the site of the NOAA ATDD ( http://www.atdd.noaa.gov/ ) : The scientific payload is described in detail at the website www.eufar.net .

2 . Instrumentation for in situ measurements :

• eddy covariance tower with an open configuration for the measurement of turbulent fluxes of mass (CO2 , H2O) and energy ( net radiation , sensible and latent heat , momentum ) . Consists of Gill R3 sonic anemometer and open- path analyzer CO2/H2O Licor Li7500

• Torre eddy covariance in the closed configuration for the measurement of turbulent flows of CH4 , N2O , NH3 . Consisting of one or two sonic anemometers ( Gill R2 and Young 81000 ) and by QCTDLs for the measurement of the covariate .

• Weather station

• Tower of measure of the radiation balance

• System autochambers a transient for the measurement of soil respiration .

• System autochambers in closed configuration for the measurement of the exchange of biogenic greenhouse gases (CO2 , CH4 , N2O ) . The cuvettes are motorized closing of the original design and the measuring system is based on a GC .

• System autochambers in open configuration for measuring the exchange of reactive nitrogen compounds (NO, NO2) and interacting gas (O3). The cuvettes are motorized closing of the original design and the measuring system is based on a chemiluminescence analyzers and to UV .

• automatic samplers are used for measurements of air quality and techniques for mass balance from the ground and from aircraft ERA . A sampler AOS -PCP and automated geo-referenced , developed on specific NOAA is used on the ground and on aircraft. A further system of 100 vials of new conception was developed by AOS and is in the prototype stage .

• The Los Gatos Portable Methane , is a spectrometer diode laser of the latest generation , characterized by high- frequency response.

• Diodes quantum cascade laser ( QCTLDAS ) Aerodyne for the measurement of concentration profiles and fluxes of N2O and NH3 : the system for N2O can also use a diode -specific CH4 . the instrument for the NH3 was built on specific ISAFoM and is characterized by particular stability and operational simplicity .

• chemiluminescence analyzers Eco Physics CLD 88 p with photolytic converter PLC 860 and 8610C GC system portable Schambeck SFD for profiling on the canopy and flow measurement of CH4, N2O , NO, NO2mediante self- chamber.

• The spectrometer GRIMM 1109 for measuring the concentration of atmospheric particulates and powders for the termination of the size distribution between 0.2 and 20 microns.

3 . Remote sensing instrumentation

• The FLIR A40M acquires images of reflectance in the infrared high-resolution maps for ET and water status

• CIR Duncantech MS4100 is used for multispectral images in the visible and near IR ( NDVI maps )

• IGI mbH DIGICAM K is a metric digital camera 14k pixels used for stereoscopic images (land use ) .

• The microlidar EMB ER - 1/2 probe to determine the PBL height and the distribution and nature of particulate matter.

Geographical Coordinates:

- Latitude: 40° 31' 25,5'' N

- Longitude: 14° 57' 26,8'' E

Altitude: 36,484 m asl