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Fantastic video about the importance of the #AmazonRainforest for the region and the world ❕ With our own Paulo Artaxo. The video is in 🇧🇷 but the subtitles work well. Really simple break-down & great graphics. Well worth watching! ⬇️ https://t.co/8ezo9Jjfph
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https://t.co/Kr1LX8uTeT O físico Paulo Artaxo, da USP, fala do papel da #Amazônia no clima do Brasil e do mundo. #ciência #science #ambiente #clima https://t.co/buhEZHiQOr
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Next EAG student sponsorship deadline: 1 Feb 2020. Receive up to 500€ to attend a geochemistry related conference, short course or workshop in Europe. More info at https://t.co/qR1U4Xb8Js
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Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to Tuesday January 21, 2020. We would like to provide a last opportunity for those who might have missed the deadline and have not submitted an abstract yet. https://t.co/EGkvR1T8eK
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#NewPublication: Our team developed a new technique to measure spore emissions from single fungi. They found that their test species at ATTO released most spores at night 🌙 and at high humidity 💦. Look at that! 🎥 https://t.co/YQ6uFB9pgW #OpenAccess in @EGU_Atmos https://t.co/VKOXoSkcGR
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Hang in there everyone! 🧘🏻🤞🏻 https://t.co/F4wmYHQZja
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To reduce the load @copernicus_org suggests if your surname (family name) starts A-K submit between now and 15.00 CET

If your surname (family name) starts L-Z submit from 15.00CET onwards.

These however are just a suggestion from Copernicus.
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Studying interactions between forest & atmosphere and their impact on the climate from an observatory with a 325m tall tower in the Amazon rainforest

It's #wildlifewednesday! These little guys 🦋 of It's #wildlifewednesday! These little guys 🦋 often come to visit us in the camp at ATTO, sometimes in groups. They are called Sulfurs for their color, and are a subfamily of butterfly with some 300 species. So I won't attempt to identify them, but if there are any butterfly experts here that want to make a guess 🤓?⁣ -> @isabelabiologia thinks they are from the family Peridae, genus Phoebis, perhaps species Phoebis sennae. After it rained 🌧, puddles of water and mud form around the ATTO camp. The butterflies gather around them to feed on the salts and minerals in the mud puddles. This behavior is called "mud puddling". Perhaps you've seen pictures of Sulfurs before, drinking "tears" from caiman or turtles 🐊🐢 - another way for them to get sodium! We may not have witnessed that at ATTO yet, but it's nice to have these beautiful, friendly insect visitors every once in a while🦋! #wildlifediaries⁣ ⁣ 📷 by Martin Kunz & Karl Kübler / MPI-BGC⁣ ⁣ #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #ecology #butterfly #sulfur #sulfurbutterfly #Coliadinae #tropicalbutterflies #butterfliesofinstagram #butterflies
Fungi🍄 such as this release lots of spores, as Fungi🍄 such as this release lots of spores, as can you see👀! Pretty, amazing, right?⁣ Those spore emissions are an important contributor to biogenic aerosols. But so far we don't fully to understand under what conditions fungi release their spores. Nina Löbs and co-authors developed a new technique to measure emissions from single organisms and tested this out at ATTO and with controlled lab experiments.⁣ They found that their test species favors conditions with high humidity💦 and releases most spores at night time🌘. They now published their results in the Open Access Journal Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (More on our website, link in bio!).⁣ But that's just the beginning. Now that they have this technique at their disposal, they want to measure different fungal species, and in different heights of the canopy to help complete the picture.⁣ ⁣ 📷 and 📽 by Sebastian Brill / MPI-C.⁣ ⁣ #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #ecology #forestscience #atmosphericscience #fungi #fungalspores #fungus #fantasticfungi #mycology
In the tropics, like in the Amazon, the sun☀️ In the tropics, like in the Amazon, the sun☀️ warms the ground and air over the course of the day🌡. Warm air then rises and, further up in the atmosphere, it cools again. As water vapor condenses into cloud droplets and subsequently ice particles, convective storms form🌬. One example you can see in the photo. Beyond bringing rain 🌧 and strong winds 💨, these strong storms disturb the lower part of the atmosphere. This may affect the exchange of chemicals between the forest and the atmosphere. That's why Oliveira and co-authors wanted to learn more about them🔍. They studied storm outflows during nighttime🌙, measuring things such as temperature🌡, winds speed 🌬, humidity 💦 etc. at several height levels of the 80-meter tower at ATTO. They found that the storm events all had well-defined gust fronts. This means that the atmospheric conditions changed quickly and abruptly when the storms passed over ATTO. With this study, our team made a step toward bettering understanding the atmospheric dynamics within the storms 🌪 and their interaction with the forest 🌳🌴. Most importantly they learned that convective storms can create significant and abrupt changes in atmospheric conditions. To detect them was only possible with the high-frequency, multi-level measurements. To learn more about it, and to read the full study (available Open Access) head over to our website 👩‍💻. Link in bio! ➡️ Photo 📷 by Steffen Schmidt / MPI-BGC. #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #ecology #forestscience #atmosphericscience #convectivestorm #stormclouds #tropicalstorm #clouds #stormformation #storm
Happy New Year, everyone! This is our #2019bestnin Happy New Year, everyone! This is our #2019bestnine, I guess you all like pictures of the forest from high up on our towers best 😎. Here is to a successful 2020 with lots of field work, to data that make sense and to great scientific discoveries being made and published! There are some big things ahead, like the #CafeBrazil campaign, which will keep some of us quite busy. And our tall tower is turning 5 years in August! We'll tell you all about it throughout the year right here and on our other social media 😊 . #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #ecology #forestscience #lifeofascientist #atmosphericscience
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