Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie

Official ground breaking ceremony for the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)

18. August 2014

Our colleagues from the MPI for Chemistry in Mainz are celebrating the official start of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) located in the Amazon rainforest. The 325 m tall tower will be the counterpart of our 304 m ZOTTO tower located in central Siberia which we built in 2006.

Within the Earth System Research Partnership (ESRP) the MPI's from Mainz, Hamburg and Jena closely cooperate in studying Earth system processes. Scientists of our institute are part of the ATTO consortium and contributed to the tower equipment by planning and constructing the measurement system for carbon dioxide and methane.

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Summit at the German-Brazilian research tower in the Amazon

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At the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO), the research station of a joint German-Brazilian project in the Brazilian rainforest, scientists have been studying the ecosystems of the Amazon and their interactions with the atmosphere and climate for more than 10 years. Recently, representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Research and foreign ambassadors visited the station.

Successful climate research in the Amazon region is continued and expanded with ATTO+

20. August 2021

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Within the framework of the German-Brazilian joint project ATTO (Amazon Tall Tower Observatory) with its research station in the Brazilian rainforest, scientists for several years have gained valuable data and insights for climate and environmental research. For German partners, the Max Planck Society will continue to ensure the operation of the station and the research. In addition, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the project for another three years with around 5 million euros through ATTO+.

Workshop on building research at the ATTO Tower

16. Oktober 2017

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bout 50 scientists of different nationalities gathered in Manaus (Brazil) for two days at the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) to present their work related to the Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) and plan future joint research at the ATTO site to strengthen the scientific collaboration.

German ministry supports ATTO tower projects for climate research in the Amazon

19. Mai 2017

Research project ATTO

The establishment of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) is an exceptional research infrastructure, supported jointly by Brazil and Germany. The next phase of the Brazilian-German collaboration project aims at fully exploiting the technical ATTO infrastructure, to study the role of Amazon tropical forests in the Earth system and fill a large gap in global climate monitoring networks. From the German side, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds a large 3-year network proposal starting May 2017 on climate-relevant projects in this key tropical region.

News from the ATTO site in Brazil

27. März 2014

Greenhouse Gases Research project ATTO

Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory, ATTO, Brazil: We have moved! During a one week-long operation, our instrumental setup for continuous vertical profile measurements of atmospheric CO₂, CH₄, and CO concentrations at the site of the future Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, Brazil) was successfully relocated to its own measurement container.

Continuous measurements in the Amazon

24. April 2012

Greenhouse Gases Research project ATTO

In March 2012, members of the Tall Tower group (TAG, Biogeochemical Systems) installed a joint MPI-BGC/MPIC system for continuous measurements at the CLAIRE/ATTO (Amazonian Tall Tower Observatory) site, northeast of Manaus, Brazil). Carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide are measured on five levels of an 80 m-tall tower, which makes this the tallest continuous measurements of this kind in the Amazon. In the near future, the equipment is to be moved to the 320 m-tall tower that will be built nearby in the frame of the joint German-Brazilian ATTO project.