The Masdar Institute Environmental Monitoring Platform (MIEMP) was established in 2015 by Masdar Institute to coordinate and streamline support for research projects related to climate, renewable energy, and the environment.
MIEMP research endeavors to develop tools that聽can aid decision-making and help UAE adapt to a changing climate.聽 Continuous operation of environmental monitoring stations is critical to this research.
The mission of the MIEMP is to collect, validate, and make available continuous, high-quality historical records of environmental variables in the UAE, including micrometeorological and ground-based remotely sensed data from meteorological LiDAR鈥檚 (Light Detection and Ranging).
MIEMP data are crucial to a vast number of scientific disciplines, including climate sciences, meteorology and micro-meteorology, renewable energy resource assessment, hydrology, ecology, agriculture, aerosol science, and air quality studies.
Recognizing the uniqueness of environmental conditions in arid-lands, the MIEMP also promotes efforts to establish standards for data acquisition and calibration-validation procedures in hyper-arid regions.
