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A dense layer of fog blankets the Amazon rainforest in the morning. It's this time of year, when the dry season slowly turns into the wet season, that views like this become much more frequent again at ATTO.
📷 by Sebastian Brill / MPI-C. https://t.co/b5XbfJNTLm
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. @theAGU is just around the corner, and the folks over at @NGEETropics have put together some fantastic sessions on "Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment"! Check out all the talks & posters in this, including some from ATTO, here: https://t.co/AxKxG5FA8Q #AmazonResearch
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How much of the time is a tropical forest canopy wet?
66%, and half of that is because of dew... https://t.co/17qZTtoNxT
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Amazing diversity, and so much still left to discover! 💚 https://t.co/MB0aIPOnbG
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How diverse really is the Amazon rainforest?

Botanists and ecologists have found close to 10,000 tree species but another 5,000 may yet to be recorded.

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Yesterday, ATTO was featured on a German gameshow ( @SWRpresse) called "Sag die Wahrheit". Three people claimed to be rainforest researcher Stefan Wolff, a panel of judges had to guess who told the truth. Good fun, and great to be featured in such a show! https://t.co/vlXyxjjqeP
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In a new study in @EGU_ACP, Liu et. al found that enhanced biomass burning 🔥 and the aerosols this creates lead to a decrease in precipitation 🔽 🌧️ due to aerosol-cloud and aerosol-radiation interactions. Read our summery here: https://t.co/bIqgr10JUU
📷 by @NASAEarth 🌧️ https://t.co/r2u8Ntbg0u
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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

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"My name is Eva Pfannerstill, and I studied OH rea "My name is Eva Pfannerstill, and I studied OH reactivity in different environments, including the Amazon rainforest. When I first opened the lid of the Comparative Reactivity instrument, I felt like looking at a bowl of Teflon spaghetti: The dozens of thin tubes, valves and mass flow controllers inside make up a confusing network for gas flows and reactions. Its purpose is the measurement of the so-called total OH reactivity. OH reactivity is a measure of how much reactive trace gases are present. When I first came to the ATTO site in 2016, the CRM had been installed in a lab container at the foot of the 80 m tower for four years. I knew from the person who had last used it in 2015 that several parts of it were not working properly. My first goal was therefore to repair and update it, including its absolutely essential electronic control system. This is responsible for switching valves and gas flows at the right times, and recording reaction conditions such as temperature and pressure. I wanted to disassemble this control unit at a table in the camp instead of on the floor of the packed lab container. Before unscrewing it from the instrument rack in the lab container and carrying it to the camp, I tried whether it would turn on. It did. Upon arrival at the camp with it, I tried to switch it on once again. This time it was completely dead. After a moment of panic, I realized that a tiny fuse had gone missing. My first thought was 'Sh--, I must have lost it somewhere along the 20-minute forest walk between the lab container and the camp'." Want to find out what happened next, and learn more about the CRM and Eva's work at ATTO? Head over to our website to read the latest #HIGHtech blog! (link in bio) #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #ecology #forestscience #atmosphericscience #atmosphericchemistry #OHreactivity #lifeofascientist
A dense layer of fog blankets the Amazon rainfores A dense layer of fog blankets the Amazon rainforest in the morning. It's this time of year, when the dry season slowly turns into the wet season, that views like this become much more frequent again at ATTO. 📷 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 #fog #morningfog #talltower #researchtower #wetseason #forestviews #forestcaptues #earthfromabove #foggyforest
Soot and other aerosols from biomass burning 🔥c Soot and other aerosols from biomass burning 🔥can influence regional and global weather and climate because it influences radiation☀️, clouds☁️, and precipitation🌧. PhD student Lixia Liu in the Minerva Research Group led by Yafang Cheng at the @MaxPlanckInstituteForChemistry in Mainz and her colleagues studied how this affects the Amazon Basin during the dry season. They modeled different scenarios, but they all resulted in less rain in the region. Aerosol-cloud-interactions (ACIs) play an important role in it, especially with low and moderate biomass burning. Through acting as cloud condensation nuclei, biomass burning aerosols lead to more, but smaller cloud droplets. This slows down the cloud formation process and therefore thwarts rain formation. But Aerosol-radiation-interactions (ARIs) amplify this and would even overrun the ACIs at high biomass burning emission because the soot particles absorb sunlight and thus warm the atmosphere and dimming the surface. This reduces atmospheric convection, which would lead to the afternoon rainstorms that are so typical for the tropics. With reduced convection, however, it is less likely to rain. Climate change and the loss of forests due to deforestation already lead to drier and more prolonged Amazonian dry seasons. These effects from biomass burning threaten to further amplify droughts in the Amazon rainforest. Read more on our website (link in bio). Photo by @nasaearth. #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #atmosphericscience #atmosphericresearch #blackcarbon #soot #biomassburning #amazonfire #aerosols #airpollution #smoke
Major parts of trees and shrubs in the Amazon rain Major parts of trees and shrubs in the Amazon rainforest are covered by other organisms such as mosses. They are practically everywhere we look at ATTO. This for example is a moss called Leucobryum martianum growing on a tree trunk near the forest floor. We know from other regions in the world, that they are important for biosphere-atmosphere exchange, climate processes, and nutrient cycling. But very little research has been done on this in the tropics. Nina Löbs and her colleagues are working to change that! One of their characteristics of mosses is that they are only active only under moist conditions, which is why they are so abundant in the rainforest. That means that under dry conditions, they are less likely to perform photosynthesis, for example. So Nina and her team analyzed the water content💧, temperature🌡 and light conditions⛅ of mosses at the forest floor and at different heights in the canopy. This is the first step to find out the impact of mosses on local, regional, and even global biogeochemical processes under changing climate conditions. Find out more on our website (Link in bio⬆️) 📷 by Michael Welling / MPI-C. #Amazon #AmazonRainforest #florestaamazonica #ATTO #rainforest #Brazil #research #fieldwork #science #earthscience #environment #Amazonia #AmazonReseach #tropicalforests #EarthSystemResearch #climate #climatescience #ecology #forestscience #tropicalmoss #moss #bryophytes #bryophyte #leucobryum #photosynthesis
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