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Image 1 - View of the sunphotometer. Image 2 - View of the sunphotometer. Image 1 Image 2   Site Coodinates and Elevation: Latitude: 69.27833° North Longitude: 16.00861° East Elevation: 379.0 Meters Site Description: The ALOMAR Observatory is a modern facility where scientific groups from 6 nations are investigating in atmosphere research . At the same time ALOMAR is responsble for all ground based instrumentation of the Andxya Rocket Range. The ALOMAR instrumentation covers all atmospheric layers from the troposphere to the lower termosphere. Additional instruments looking at physical parameters in the ionosphere, magnetosphere and auroral oval are making ALOMAR a full size atmospheric laboratory in the arctic. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Victoria E. Cachorro Revilla E-mail: chiqui@goa.uva.es Victoria E. Cachorro Revilla Grupo de Optica Atmosferica/GOA-UVA Universidad de Valladolid Facultad de Ciencias 47071 Valladolid Spain Phone: +34983423270; Cell: +34627511874 E-mail: chiqui@goa.uva.es AND Sandra Blindheim E-mail: sandra@rocketrange.no Sandra Blindheim Project Scientist ALOMAR Station Andxya Rocket Range N-8483 Andenes Norway Phone: +47 76 144400 E- mail: sandra@rocketrange.no Site Manager(s) Information: No Site Manager Information Available Responsible Institution(s): Andxya Rocket Range http://alomar.rocketrange.no/ Universidad de Valladolid http://www.uva.es

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