BAQUNIN’s instruments capture the “Frecce Tricolori” acrobatic team

admin2021-08-03T10:43:44+01:00During the celebration of the Italian Air Force, the Italian air force team colored the sky above Rome. BAQUNIN tools captured the event. The skycamera has immortalized the passage of the aerobatic team in a picture, and the airplanes’ trail is clearly visible from the acquisitions of the RAP.  

A new instrument for BAQUNIN suite: RAP

admin2021-08-03T10:41:44+01:00 Starting from January, a new instrument has joined the BAQUNIN instrumental suite, the Raymetrics’ Aerosol Profiler (RAP) developed elastic backscatter mini-LiDAR. The system is suitable for the detection of clouds, tropospheric aerosol layers (i.e desert dust, biomass burning plumes), and for the study of PBL daily evolution.  It delivers atmospheric backscatter aerosol profiles in the NIR with high raw spatial and temporal resolution 3.75 m and <20 sec, respectively. The effective range extends from full overlap (<200 m) up...

Article published on Atmospheric Pollution Research: Impact of synoptic meteorological conditions on air quality in three different case studies in Rome, Italy

admin2021-08-05T07:38:37+01:00 This study analyses the influence of synoptic weather conditions on atmospheric particulate matter concentration and composition during an intensive measurement campaign, performed in the urban area of Rome (Italy) in winter 2017. To evaluate the effect of local particulate sources, data from several urban and rural ground-based air quality stations were considered. The analysis involved the following atmospheric parameters: wind speed and direction near the ground, air temperature, specific humidity, height and evolution of the mixing layer. Furthermore, the...

2nd International Campaign for studying quality and traceability of atmospheric aerosol measurements

admin2021-08-03T11:19:24+01:00 Measurement traceability and data quality are essential requirements by the WMO for monitoring atmospheric aerosol optical properties by International radiometer networks. ISAC is organizing the 2nd International Campaigns QUATRAM (QUAlity and TRaceability of Atmospheric aerosol Measurements), the 1st being already held in October 2017. QUATRAM is aimed to: 1) intercalibration among WMO standard instruments (as defined by CIMO http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/CIMO-Guide.htm) and radiometers also from several international networks; 2) intercomparison of atmospheric aerosol properties measured by equipment of different manufactories. The Campaign is...