SURFRAD Desert Rock, NV
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Solar tracker (foreground), radiometer platform (left), ten-meter tower (rear), and Total Sky Imager (TSI, right) at Desert Rock. (64 kb)
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The SURFRAD station at Desert Rock, Nevada. From left to right: solar tracker, radiometer platform, Total Sky Imager, and 10-meter tower.
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Chris Cornwall, Gary Hodges, John Augustine and Dennis Wellman, all from SRRB,
raise the ten-meter tower into position. (174 kb)
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John Augustine, Ray Dennis (ARL/SORD), Gary Hodges and Dennis Wellman add
the finishing touches to the radiometer platform. (179 kb)
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The ten-meter tower at Desert Rock. Instruments are: Vaisala air temperature and
relative humidity probe (top left), RM Young wind monitor (top right), Eppley
pyrgeometer for measuring upwelling longwave (lower left), and a Spectrosun pyranometer
for measuring upwelling visible (lower right). There is also a lightning rod
at top center. (102 kb)
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The main platform. Instruments shown are (left to right):
MFRSR, Yankee Environmental Systems UVB-1 Ultraviolet Pyranometer, LI-COR
Quantum sensor for photosynthetically active radiation, ventilated Eppley pyrgeometer,
ventilated Spectrosun pyranometer, and three other LI-COR detectors
(on boom arm at right) for special experiments at the station. (72 kb)
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Total Sky Imager (TSI) installed at the Desert Rock
site December, 1999. (95 kb)
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The ventilated Spectrosun Pyranometer, located on the
radiometer platform, could be responsible for some of the UFO stories from
this region. (76 kb)
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The Desert Rock Total Sky Imager at sunset, December, 1999.
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An interior view of the data logger box, including (clockwise from upper left)
the surge protector with phone switch power supply, the Campbell data logger
charging power supply, the Campbell 9600 baud modem, the Campbell CR10 data
logger, the Campbell AM416 multiplexer, and the Campbell battery backup. Along
the right inside wall of the box, from top to bottom, are the pressure sensor
and three LI-COR resistor packs for instruments collecting data for special
experiments run by the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
of the Air Resources Laboratory . (43 kb)
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