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

ATTO tall tower (picture: Karl Kuebler, MPI-BGC)
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. The German institutions, collaborating with Brazilian partners, include:
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena (coordinator)
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
University Hamburg
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, KIT