Thursday, September 18, 2014

305 metre Tower will be installed in the Amazon to monitor climate change

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The Brazil and Germany, in a joint effort, will install a tower and 304.8 metres tall in the Amazon to monitor climate change. Amazon Tall Tower, as will call, will determine the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by the largest tropical forest in the world.

The Amazon rainforest absorbs huge quantities of CO2 annually, playing an important role in the climate of the planet. The new Tower, taller than the Eiffel Tower, will help scientists quantify the amount of CO2 absorbed or released annually. To this end, the Tower will be equipped with various monitoring instruments that will collect data on aerosols and greenhouse gases. Given its height will be also possible to investigate the changes and movements of air masses through the forest at large distances, writes the Inhabitat.

"Monitoring is done largely without direct human influence and, as such, ideal to investigate the significance of forest regions to the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere," says project coordinator Jurgen Kesselmeier, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.

The Tower will be located about 161km from the city of Manaus and be made of steel, which will be produced in southern Brazil.

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