Emilio Cuevas-Agulló
Ramón Ramos-López
Pedro Pablo Rivas-Soriano
The Izaña Atmospheric Observatory facilities consist of three separate buildings: the main building, the aerosols lab, and the technical tower. The main, two-storey building hosts the following facilities: office space, dining room, kitchen, library, conference hall with audio-visual system, meeting room, engine rooms, a mechanical workshop, an electronics workshop and a residential accommodation available for visiting scientists (seven double en-suite rooms). The technical tower is a seven-storey building which includes 20 temperature- controlled laboratories.
Izaña Atmospheric Research Center, AEMET
Accessibility by road. The station is located 50 km from the capital city of the island, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
https://izana.aemet.es/
Reliable internet, landline and mobile telephone connections.
The population in Tenerife is distributed over the coastal platform. During nighttime downslope (catabatic) wind produces the arrival of free troposphere air to Izaña. During daytime, small amounts of air coming from the forest can arrive to the station due to surface upslope wind produced by ground diurnal heating. Apart from this effect, there is no arrival of polluted air from the rest of the island, due to the presence of a strong subtropical temperature inversion layer.
Centro de Investigación Atmosférica de Izaña (AEMET)
Calle La Marina, 20
38001 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
The Izaña Atmospheric Observatory is located on the island of Tenerife, Spain, roughly 300 km west of the African coast. The observatory is situated on a mountain plateau at 2372.90 m above sea level, 15 km north-east of the volcano Teide (3718 m a.s.l.). The local wind regime at the site is dominated by north-westerly winds. Clean air and clear sky conditions generally prevail throughout the year. The station is normally above a temperature inversion layer, generally well established over the island, and below the descending branch of the Hadley cell. The ground in the vicinity around Izaña is loosely covered with light volcanic soil. The vegetation in the surrounding area is sparse, consisting mainly of broom. A belt of pine forest grows between 1000 and 2000 meters a.s.l.
