Promoting the potential of flux-measuring stations in urban parks: An innovative case study in Naples, Italy

In this paper, we present for the first time the experimental station of Real Bosco di Capodimonte, located within the city of Naples. The vegetation is mainly composed by Quercus ilex with some patches of Pinus pinea and meadows. The site is equipped with state of the art instruments to measure concentrations and exchanges of CO2, H2O, CH4, O3, PM, VOCs and NOx by the eddy covariance technique. It represents an interesting and rare opportunity to investigate the interactions between urban vegetation, anthropogenic pollutants and secondary photochemical compounds.