Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station Explained

Airship Italia Arctic station
Native Name:Base artica Dirigibile Italia
Native Name Lang:it
Settlement Type:Research Station
Pushpin Map:Arctic
Pushpin Label Position:right
Coordinates:78.9167°N 67°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Italy
Established Date:May 1997
Named For:Airship Italia
Government Type:Polar Research Organisation
Governing Body:National Research Council of Italy
Demographics1 Title1:Official

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 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. Studies coordinated by CNR focus on the intricate climatic interactions among the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere, and the cryosphere.[2]

The research station also runs 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. Book: Tamburelli, Gianfranco. 2008. The Antarctic Legal System: The Protection of the Environment of the Polar Regions. Giuffrè Editore. preface.
  2. Web site: At Arctic Station Dirigibile Italia . isac.cnr.it . Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate . 1 October 2020.
  3. Web site: Climate Change Tower Integrated Project - Home . isac.cnr.it . Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate . 1 October 2020.
  4. Web site: Research Institutions and Universities in Ny-Ålesund . Kings Bay . 1 October 2020.

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