CSIRO Senior Principal Research Scientist Dr Melita Keywood said Kennaook\u00a0\/\u00a0Cape Grim delivers vital data for Australia\u2019s climate research and internationally.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe long-term data we collect from Kennaook\u00a0\/\u00a0Cape Grim is critical for understanding changes in the atmosphere over time and how to manage them in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, we have seen an ongoing increase in CO\u2082 over the last 50\u00a0years from human\u2013induced activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, we have also seen a decrease in the pollutant black carbon and ozone-depleting substances like CFC-11, showing us that international efforts to reduce pollution, like the Montreal Protocol, can be effective.\u201d<\/p>\n
For 24\u00a0hours a day, air is drawn through several inlets\u00a0\u2013 one located 80\u00a0metres up a tower\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and analysed in real time to measure atmospheric compounds to track the drivers of climate change and ozone depletion.<\/p>\n
Each season, scientists collect air samples into air tanks that are then sent to and stored at a CSIRO lab in Melbourne, Victoria, which has housed these important archived air samples since 1978.<\/p>\n
Bureau of Meteorology Station Manager Sarah Prior said the station faced challenging beginnings at the remote site, with the first measurements made in a caravan that was donated by NASA after the Apollo missions.<\/p>\n
“So much has changed over the past 50\u00a0years, from the way we capture our air samples to the types of pollutants that are now present in the atmosphere and the enormous technological advancements to measure them at trace levels.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThis station is at the forefront of understanding changes to our Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Data from this site underpins international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and enables scientists and policy makers to gauge the impact of emission reduction efforts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CSIRO Senior Principal Research Scientist Dr Melita Keywood said Kennaook\u00a0\/\u00a0Cape Grim delivers vital data for Australia\u2019s climate research…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,61838,6884,284377,4816,205097,284376,111386,284378,128,2801],"class_list":["post-580098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bom","tag-bureau-of-meteorology","tag-kennaook-cape-grim","tag-media-release","tag-news-and-media","tag-north-west-coast","tag-observation","tag-observation-network","tag-science","tag-tasmania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}