Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station

Airship Italia Arctic station
Base artica Dirigibile Italia
Research Station

Airship Italia Arctic station in 2012
Airship Italia Arctic station
Coordinates: 78°55′N 11°56′E / 78.917°N 11.933°E / 78.917; 11.933Coordinates: 78°55′N 11°56′E / 78.917°N 11.933°E / 78.917; 11.933
Country  Italy
Named for Airship Italia
Government
 • Type Polar Research Organisation
 • Body National Research Council of Italy

The Dirigibile Italia Arctic station (in Italian: Base artica Dirigibile Italia) is an Italian research station in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Norway.

Managed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), it was inaugurated in May 1997,[1] in memory of the Airship Italia expedition of Umberto Nobile (1928).

It is a 330 m² permanent research station with laboratories and offices which can host up to seven people, but it is inhabited only in case of ongoing scientific activities; the scientific studies, coordinated by the CNR Polar Network, include: "chemistry and physics of the atmosphere, marine biology, technology research, oceanography/limnology, environmental studies, human biology and medicine".[2]

The research station runs also the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower,[3] measuring atmospheric parameters, installed by the Kings Bay and inaugurated on 30 April 2009.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tamburelli, Gianfranco (2008). The Antarctic Legal System: The Protection of the Environment of the Polar Regions. Giuffrè Editore. p. prefaz.
  2. ↑ "Climate Change Tower Integrated Project". isac.cnr.it. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  3. ↑ "Climate Change Tower Integrated Project". isac.cnr.it. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  4. ↑ "Research stations in Ny-Ålesund". kingsbay.no. Retrieved 2016-01-18.

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