26 February 2026: The paper "Characterization of the Surface Energy Balance Residual in Complex Terrain" by Martina Destro, Mathias W. Rotasch na Manuela Lehner (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-026-00964-x) has been published in Boundary-Layer Meteorology!
17 February 2026: a field campaign using Eurac’s UAS was conducted around the Mezzolombardo flux tower to evaluate the spatial distribution of various meteorological variables.
30 January 2026: a project meeting was held in Innsbruck to discuss the progress made within the project.
18 September 2026: a field campaign using Eurac’s UAS was conducted around the Mezzolombardo flux tower to evaluate the spatial distribution of various meteorological variables.
3 July 2025: A field campaign with a large-aperture scintillometer has started in Mezzolombardo, to compare scintillometer-based and eddy-covariance-based turbulent fluxes. The field campaign is the result of a collaboration with prof. Andrea Pitacco (University of Padova).
24 June 2025: The paper "A Review of Methods and Challenges for Wind Measurement by Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" by Mohammadamin Soltaninezhad, Roberto Monsorno and Stefano Tondini (https://doi.org/10.1002/met.70065) has been published in Meteorological Applications!
6 June 2025: project meeting in Trento to discuss project activities.
May 2025: Eurac tested in a wind tunnel the performance of the UAS in measuring wind speed and direction.
4 December 2024: project meeting in Bolzano to discuss project activities.
5 June 2024: project meeting in Innsbruck to discuss project activities.
10 November 2023: online project meeting to discuss project activities.
July-August 2023: the new flux tower of Mezzolombardo is fully operative!
6 July 2023: online project meeting to discuss project activities.
18 November 2022: a project meeting was held in Bolzano, at Eurac Research. The meeting was divided in two parts: the first one dedicated to the involvement of stakeholders from other research groups at Eurac Research, and the second one for a discussion between project partners.
6 July 2022: the project kick off meeting was held at the University of Trento, with a discussion on the first project activities in the morning and a visit to the new flux site in Mezzolombardo in the afternoon