The ABC-Pyramid: a scientific laboratory at 5079 m a.s.l. for the study of atmospheric composition change and climate

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.

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Renato Baudo (Institute of Ecosystem Study, ISE-CNR) - Gianni Tartari (The Water Research Institute (IRSA)-CNR) - Elisa Vuillermoz (Ev-K2-CNR) - Paolo Bonasoni (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Gian Pietro Verza (Ev-K2-CNR) - Paolo Laj (CNRS Laboratory of Meteorology Physics - Laboratory of Glaciology) - Ubaldo Bonafè (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Francescopiero Calzolari (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Paolo Cristofanelli (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Angela Marinoni (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Fabrizio Roccato (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Maria Cristina Facchini (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Sandro Fuzzi (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR) - Gian Paolo Gobbi (Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) National Research Council) - Michael Sprenger (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science) - Jean Marc Pichon (Blaise Pascal University-laboratory of physical meteorology) - Hervè Venzac (Blaise Pascal University,CNRS) - Karine Sellegri (Blaise Pascal University, CNRS) - Paolo Villani (Blaise Pascal University,CNRS) - Jgor Arduini (The University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" - Chemical Science Institute) - Andreas Petzold (Institute of Atmospheric Physics) - Michela Maione (The University of Urbino"Carlo Bo" - Chemical Science Institute) (2007) . The ABC-Pyramid: a scientific laboratory at 5079 m a.s.l. for the study of atmospheric composition change and climate. Elsevier Science Publishing Company https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ad4a4ca1-b59e-423d-b169-5b3c3afd124e

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SHARE , ABC

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high altitude

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Nepal , Himalaya , Karakoram , Asia , South Asia , Pakistan

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climate change , global change

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atmospheric composition , aerosol , ozone , backward trajectories

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Date ( Publication ): 2007-06-21T00:00:00

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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.