Atto tower

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ATTO tower
ATTO tower

The Atto Tower is a 325 meter high steel tower in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest near São Sebastião do Uatumã .

ATTO is a German-Brazilian project that researches the rainforest biosphere and how it reacts to global warming . ATTO stands for " A mazon (ian) T all T ower O bservatory". The construction costs are stated at around 8.4 million euros. 50 percent come from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the other half from the Brazilian side. The "sister tower " ZOTTO Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility is located in the Siberian taiga.

According to a press release by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, ATTO enables “climate observations at different heights of the atmosphere, which deliver previously unrealizable measurement results on the greenhouse gas balance and on the complex interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere.” German and Brazilian scientists would be in research a forest area that is "far removed from interference from human influences".

The environmental tower will help to "record and evaluate the climate-relevant chemical and physical processes over the Amazon region and thus create new foundations for climate protection." The construction between Germany and Brazil was agreed in 2009, and both countries financed the joint project of Max -Planck Institute for Chemistry and for Biogeochemistry as well as the Brazilian Federal Institute for Amazon Research Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and the University of the State of Amazonas (Universidade do Estado do Amazonas) each with 4.2 million euros, according to information from the BMBF -Website.

After a year of construction, ATTO was opened on August 22, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Kelly: São Sebastião do Uatumã, Amazonas, Brazil. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 24, 2015 (picture).

Coordinates: 2 ° 8 ′ 34.8 ″  S , 59 ° 0 ′ 3.6 ″  W.