SURFRAD Goodwin Creek, MS
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The SURFRAD station at the Goodwin Creek watershed, outside of Batesville,
Mississippi. The site is surrounded by a barbed wire fence with gate access.
From left to right, you can see the SURFRAD solar tracker, main instrument platform,
and instrument tower, followed by a radio tower, control shed and flux system maintained
by the site operators, and finally the Total Sky Imager at the far right. (1018x334 JPEG, 51Kb)
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The downwelling instruments on the main platform at Goodwin Creek.
Shown, from left to right, are: Yankee Environmental Systems (YES)
MFRSR, LI-COR Photosynthetically Active Radiometer (PAR), Yankee UVB-1
Ultraviolet Pyranometer, ventilated Eppley pyrgeometer, and
ventilated Spectrosun pyranometer. (1024x768 JPEG, 113 Kb)
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The SURFRAD instruments on the new SCI-TEC solar tracker, just
south of the instrument platform. On top of the tracker is a ventilated
and shaded Spectrosun pyranometer measuring diffuse solar irradiance.
Mounted on the far side of the tracker is an Eppley Normal Incidence Pyranometer.
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The SURFRAD ten-meter tower, located approximately 30 m north of the main
instrument platform. The tower contains an RM Young wind monitor, a Vaisala
temperature and relative humidity sensor, and an Eppley pyrgeometer
and a Spectrosun pyranometer for measuring upwelling iinfrared and solar
radiation, respectively. (757x1011 JPEG, 96 Kb)
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A close-up of the tower-mounted instruments.
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Gary Hodges installing the Total Sky Imager at Goodwin Creek,
September, 1999.
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The Yankee Environmental Systems Total Sky Imager (TSI), installed at Goodwin
Creek in September 1999. The unit had to be mounted on a platform high
enough to avoid interference from the fence posts. Guy wires stabilize the
platform, and hologram ribbon underneath the TSI keeps birds away.
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John Augustine wondering where to start on an instrument swapout trip to
Goodwin Creek, June, 1999.
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Our newest neighbors at the Goodwin Creek SurfRad site, September, 1999.
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