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Image 1 - n/a Image 2 - n/a Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 45.74220° North Longitude: 7.35700° East Elevation: 560.0 Meters Site Description: The instrument is installed on the roof of the building of ARPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Valle d'Aosta. The location is in a semi-rural context, just out-of-town. The site is in a large Alpine valley floor with a wide field of view (up to 70° zenith angle, and more in the east-west direction).Main aerosol sources are:- urban pollution from the Aosta town, about 3 km west of the observatory, mostly car traffic and domestic heating (winter)- minor emissions from local industrial sources: a steel mill is located in the town- coarse particles from resuspension by wind/traffic, road salting (winter) and occasional Saharan dust events- secondary aerosol particles (ammonium nitrate and sulfate) regularly transported from the Po basin (about 100 km far from the observatory) by thermal winds. This occurs about 50% of the days in a year on averageSurface: soil, grass, buildings, snow (on mountain slopes, winter).Other co-located instruments: POM-02 sun/sky radiometer (Skynet), CHM-15k and CL61 lidar-ceilometers (Alicenet), Bentham spectroradiometer, MkIV Brewer (EUBREWNET), broadband UV radiometers, pyranometer, pyrgeometer, AvaSpec array spectrometer in global and direct configuration, cloudcam Principal Investigator(s) Information: Africa Barreto E-mail: abarretov@aemet.es Dr. Africa Barreto (Izana Atmospheric Research Center) Meteorological State Agency of Spain (AEMET) C/ La Marina, 20, Planta 6 38071 Santa Cruz de Tenerife SPAIN Tel: +34 922151718 Fax: +34 922574475 Email: abarretov@aemet.es ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5806-585X AND Henri Diémoz E-mail: h.diemoz@arpa.vda.it Henri Diémoz loc. La Maladière 48 11020 Saint-Christophe (AO), Italy phone: +39165278576 fax: +39165278555 Email: h.diemoz@arpa.vda.it Site Manager(s) Information: Henri Diémoz Email: h.diemoz@arpa.vda.it Henri Diémoz loc. La Maladière 48 11020 Saint-Christophe (AO), Italy phone: +39165278576 fax: +39165278555 Email: h.diemoz@arpa.vda.it Responsible Institution(s): ARPA (ARPA VDA - Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente Valle d'Aosta), Valle d’Aosta (https://www.arpa.vda.it/it/) Izana Atmospheric Research Center (https://izana.aemet.es/), Meteorological State Agency of Spain (www.aemet.es)

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