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Develop an Automatic Climate Station (ACS) prototype for remote sites observations in the Arctic (Dev-ACS)
Call year: 2026
Status: active
IADC_id: 838
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The project aims to answer the ever growing need to measure with greater spatial and temporal resolution numerous parameters and processes at the air-soil-cryosphere interface, to be able to both (i) observe the changes taking place in the long term with greater accuracy and (ii) increase our knowledge on important processes driving the phenomenon of "polar amplification". Final target is to design and develop an integrated wind-solar-hydrogen system capable of supplying continuous power up to 200 W and be implemented in a typical Automatic Weather station structure. Thanks to the continuous power availability, it will be possible to redesign and develop in a climatic key the scientific package, adding to the weather measurements observations that refer to radiative fluxes, including the surface reflectivity of the snow. In the package will be also implemented a Distributed Temperature System (DTS) in order to collect temperature profiles at least in the active layer. Most important, will be possible to reduce the limitations both in the acquisition of data and in their transmission, considerably increasing the significance of the observations made and the flow of data in Near Real Time (NRT). Hydrogen systems are able to provide long-term energy storage in a cost-effective, eco-friendly (from an Life Cycle Assessment – LCA - perspective) and compact way. They become particularly useful in remote areas to reliably rely on renewable energy sources assuring a seasonal-length storage and avoid/reduce the need for expensive and bulky batteries. Green hydrogen will be produced on site from local renewable energy sources (photovoltaic and/or wind) and the energy system will be completely self-sufficient in terms of mass and energy flows. The accurate design will also take into account the extreme weather operational conditions.
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At national level CNR-ISP and Politecnico di Torino are involved. In the last two years this activities started and was developed in the frame of a project supported by SIOS INNOVATION AWARD
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