ad4a4ca1-b59e-423d-b169-5b3c3afd124e eng a0a53e14-f8ff-42cf-a074-d334dab77c94 Ev-K2-CNR +39 035 3230511 +39 035 3230551 Via San Bernardino 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy metadata@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org/ 2025-02-21T18:58:26 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS84 EPSG The ABC-Pyramid: a scientific laboratory at 5079 m a.s.l. for the study of atmospheric composition change and climate Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: SHARE-Asia Project. 2007-06-21T00:00:00 Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: Share-Asia Project 67-75 in Mountains witness of global changes - research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: SHARE-ASIA project, Baudo, R., Tartari, G., Vuillermoz, E. (Eds.),Elsevier, Amsterdam, Holland, 2007. Developments in Earth Surface Processes - Elsevier 978-0-444-52990-9 0928-2025 The Himalayan–Karakoram range is located in one of the most densely populated and very rapidly developing world areas. Monitoring of atmospheric composition in this area can play a relevant role in evaluating the background conditions of the free troposphere and quantifying the pollution present at high altitudes, as well as in studying regional and long-range transport phenomena. Due to technical and logistic difficulties in carrying out measurements at high altitude in the Himalaya, no systematic observations of atmospheric constituents are available for this area. Thus, a new measurement station in such a region represents a unique source of data, able to make up for the prior lack of this information. For these reasons, in the framework of the SHARE-Asia and ABC projects, a remote monitoring station, the ABC-Pyramid Laboratory, will be installed in the Khumbu valley near Mt. Everst at 5079 m a.s.l. Continuous in situ measurements of chemical, physical and optical properties of aerosol, surface ozone concentration, as well as non-continuous measurements of halocarbons and other greenhouse-gas concentrations will be carried out. This monitoring station was projected, realised and tested in Bologna at CNR-ISAC Institute during autumn 2005. It was designed to be controlled by remote login and to operate for the long-term in extremely adverse weather conditions. This station represents an ideal place for studying regional and long-range air mass transport, due to natural and human processes. Precious 5-day forecast information about air-masses circulation at the ABC-Pyramid site will be supplied daily by Lagrangian backward trajectories, including suitable forecasts of stratosphere-troposphere exchange phenomena. From an environmental point of view, mountains are particularly sensitive and important for monitoring the state of health of our planet. Only through distribution of meteoclimatic and atmospheric composition monitoring points in mountain regions, coupled with modelling simulations, will we be able to thoroughly analyze complex pollutant transport mechanisms and better understand imminent global changes. The Himalayan-Karakoram range - for its elevation and geographic location, represents one of the ideal places for studying long-range pollutant transport systems on a regional scale and for monitoring changes index by mechanisms that act on global scale through monsoon circulation.The Ev-K2-CNR with this book reached its objective of creating a unique opportunity for dialogue between major environmental scientists and experts, highlighting the close relationship between diverse themes with a common underlying thread: in-depth comprehension of the environmental phenomena which are determining the health of our planet. Elsevier Science Publishing Company PO Box 211 Amsterdam Amsterdam 100 AE Netherlands nlinfo@sciencedirect.com http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Renato Baudo Institute of Ecosystem Study, ISE-CNR +39 0323 556571 +39 0323 518312 +39 0323 556513 Largo Vittorio Tonolli, 50/52 Pallanza Novara NO 28048 Italy r.baudo@ise.cnr.it http://www.ise.cnr.it WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Gianni Tartari The Water Research Institute (IRSA)-CNR +39 03921694203 +39 338 8670725 +39 0392004692 Via del Mulino, 19 Brugherio MB 20047 Italy tartari@irsa.cnr.it www.irsa.cnr.it WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Elisa Vuillermoz Ev-K2-CNR +39 0353230513 +39 0353230551 Via San Bernardino, 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy elisa.vuillermoz@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org/cms/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Paolo Bonasoni Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR +39 0516399590 +39 0516399652 Via Gobetti 101 Bologna BO 40129 Italy p.bonasoni@isac.cnr.it www.isac.cnr.it Gian Pietro Verza Ev-K2-CNR Via San Bernardino, 145 Bergamo BG 24126 Italy gianpietro.verza@evk2cnr.org http://www.evk2cnr.org Paolo Laj CNRS Laboratory of Meteorology Physics - 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Developments in Earth Surface Processes Volume 10, 2007, Pages 67-75 Mountains Witnesses of Global Changes Research in the Himalaya and Karakoram: Share-Asia Project doi:10.1016/S0928-2025(06)10010-3 “The ABC-Pyramid: a scientific laboratory at 5079 m a.s.l. for the study of atmospheric composition change and climate.” Paolo Bonasoni, Paolo Laj, Ubaldo Bonafè, Francescopiero Calzolari, Paolo Cristofanelli, Angela Marinoni, Fabrizio Roccato, Maria Cristina Facchini, Sandro Fuzzi, Gian Paolo Gobbi, Jean-Marc Pichon, Hervè Venzac, Karine Sellegri, Paolo Villani, Michela Maione, Jgor Arduini, Andreas Petzold, Michael Sprenger, Gian Pietro Verza, Elisa Vuillermoz.