Fuzzi: Atmospheric composition and climate in high mountain areas
Inserito da share-everest il Mer, 04/30/2008 - 15:27
Changes in atmospheric composition directly affect many aspects of life, determining climate, air quality and atmospheric inputs to ecosystems. In turn, these changes affect the fundamental necessities for human existence: health, food production, and water availability.
It is now well recognized that human activities have perturbed the chemical composition of the atmosphere on local, regional, and global scales. Mountain regions provide unique opportunities to detect and analyze global change processes and phenomena.
In fact, high mountain stations are locations where atmospheric background conditions and global change processes can profitably be studied by means of continuous monitoring activities.
The Monte Cimone Observatory in the Italian Northern Apennines and the Pyramid Laboratory-Observatory in the Khumbu Valley of the Nepalese Himalayas are two examples of such high mountain stations where long term monitoring of atmospheric composition are underway, providing important data to document changes due to human activity and to understand the associated effects on climate and ecosystems.
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