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Welcome to ECOTOWER!
Fig.: The ECOTOWER instrument platform at 45m above ground.
Background
ECOTOWER stands for the Eddy Covariance Tower in the Tambopata province in the Peruvian region Madre de Dios. This research tower in the Peruvian Amazon Rain Forest at the banks of Tambopata river is operated by Dr. Eric Cosio from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
It was built in 2014 under the initiative of Prof. John Grace (Edinburgh) with funds from the Scottish Alliance for Geosciences and the Environment (SAGES) and the EU-GEOCARBON project.
It is maintained by PUCP and a NOAA subcontract.
Instrumentation
The 45 m self-supported tower has two upper platforms. The highest one contains the solar panels, eddy covariance equipment and intakes for the particle meter, ozone sensor and calibrated CO2 measurement and meteorological equipment. The second level has the profiler and the short and long wave radiometers.
A detailed description of the instrumentation can be found here.
Location
The tower is located in the Madre de Dios region in southeastern Peru near the border with the Pando department in Bolivia and the state of Acre, Brazil. It is situated within the Tambopata National Reserve, 1 km from the Tambopata river, which marks the reserve limit. The other shore of the river is in the buffer zone and has limited human activity. There is a lodge named Explorer's Inn at 1.5 Km to the site.
operating instructions
Various functions are available as part of the map.
mouse/touch operation
- moving by grabbing the map with a mouse-click you can move the map around
- overview map using the + button in the bottom right of the map you can expand an overview map
- zooming in and out using the + and - buttons in the top left of the map you can obtain more or less detail in the map
- switching themes or maps clicking on the ≡ icon on the right-hand side of the map you can view and select available maps and themes
- retrieving information the map may contain elements that contain more information, by clicking these a popup will show this information
- fullscreen display using the ✈ button the map can be maximized to fullscreen display, use the ✕ button to return to page display.
keyboard operation
Keyboard operation becomes available after activating the map using the tab key (the map will show a focus indicator ring).
- moving using the arrow keys you can move the map
- overview map using the + button in the bottom right of the map you can expand an overview map
- zooming in and out using the + and - buttons in the top left of the map or by using the + and - keys you can obtain more or less detail in the map
- switching themes or maps clicking on the ≡ icon on the right-hand side of the map you can view and select available maps and themes
- retrieving information the map may contain elements that contain more information, using the i key you can activate a cursor that may be moved using the arrow keys, pressing the enter will execute an information retrieval. press the i or the escape key to return to navigation mode
- fullscreen display using the ✈ button the map can be maximized to fullscreen display, use the ✕ button to return to page display.
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