National Facilities
ACTRIS is the pan-European research infrastructure producing high-quality data and information on short-lived atmospheric constituents and on the processes leading to the variability of these constituents in natural and controlled atmospheres.
ACTRIS promotes the provision of access to a large variety of high-quality services to a wide range of users and needs, for scientific, technological and innovation-oriented usage.
ACTRIS core components are the National facilities, constituting in observatory and exploratory platoforms, and the Central Facilities, fundamental for the provision of harmonized high-quality data.
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LOCATION: Italy, Bologna
LOCATION: Italy, Monte Cimone (Modena)
LOCATION: Italy, Tito (Potenza)
A well-equipped laboratory is offered to test and characterize optical components typically used in Lidar systems. The laboratory is equipped with experimental setups for training in operation, calibration, quality control and basic debugging of Lidar related blocks.
LOCATION: Italy, Tito (Potenza)
CIAO, the CNR-IMAA Atmospheric Observatory (40.60 N, 15.72 E, 760 m a.s.l.) is a research facilities managed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) at Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA).
Training through research of:
a) operation and calibration techniques of remote sensing and in situ instrumentation available in AGORA
b) algorithms for retrieval physical magnitudes from remote sensing instrumentation (LIRIC, GARRLIC, POLIPHON). This training can be performed by remote access
Long-time observation of Physical and chemical properties of aerosols combining online and offline measurements. Ground-based measurements can be completed with vertical measurements (ceilometer, LIDAR, …).
In addition, the specific flight-restricted area over the station offers the possibility for UAVs, drones, and tethered balloon flights.
The research site Melpitz can be used for research projects, measurement campaigns, intercomparison, and test facility for new instruments.