Bosco Capodimonte

Bosco di Capodimonte – Promoting the potential of flux-measuring stations in urban parks: An innovative case study in Naples, Italy

The Urban forests and parks are living systems integrated in highly anthropic areas, where they establish close interactions with all the other systems around. Thanks to those interactions, urban forests provide many ecosystem services to people and to the whole urban environment. One of the most important is the absorption of chemically and radiatively-active trace
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June 5th, 2016 World Environment Day

Achim Steiner, United Nations Under Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director message for World Environment Day In 2016, our focus for World Environment Day is combatting the illegal trade in wildlife. Angola, this year’s host, is committed to acting on this issue, through efforts such as defining a new elephant management plan, strengthening the enforcement of
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May 2016: Intense Saharan dust transport event over the Mediterranean

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Saharan Dust Granitola

March 22-23, 2016: exceptional Saharan sandstorm over the Mediterranean.

A Saharan sandstorm developed in the deserts of Libya and Tunisia has mobilized considerable sand content transporting them over the Mediterranean, Italy and Southern Europe. In particular, on March 22 the Observatory of Granitola recorded a daily concentration that exceeded 110 micrograms / m3 as shown in the graph below. The intense event was recorded
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Air Sea Lab

AIR –SEA LAB ground campaign: Climate-air pollution interaction in coastal environment. April 2016

The AIR-SEA LAB projects aims to study the interactions between air pollution and climate in the coastal environment, with particular focus on aerosol physicochemical properties, aerosol-cloud interactions and near coastal boundary layer structure and dynamics. To achieve this objective, contrasting North Atlantic and Mediterranean sea environments will be compared providing distinct ranges of natural and
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