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Latitude: 36.63 degrees North

Longitude: 116.02 degrees West

Elevation: 1007 meters

Time Zone: Local Time + 8 hours = UTC

Installed: March 1998

The Desert Rock SURFRAD station is collocated with the Desert Rock (DRA) operational radiosonde station on the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. This site was formerly an ISIS Level-1 station, but was upgraded to full SURFRAD (ISIS Level-2) status in March, 1998.