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CART_SITE (SGP CART, Billings, Oklahoma)

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Image 1 - A view of the sunphotometer site. Image 2 - Another view of the sunphotometer site. Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 36.60667° North Longitude: 97.48639° West Elevation: 318.0 Meters Site Description: The U.S. Southern Great Plains (SGP) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) Site was the first field measurement site established by DOE's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. Scientists are using the information obtained from the SGP to improve cloud and radiative models and parameterizations and, thereby, the performance of atmospheric general circulation models used for climate research. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Pawan Gupta E-mail: Pawan.Gupta@nasa.gov Code 618 Building 33 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt,MD 20771 USA Ph: 256-961-7913 Fax: 1-301-614-6695 Elena Lind E-mail: Elena.Lind@nasa.gov Code 618, Building 33 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt,MD 20771 USA Ph: 301-614-0362 Fax: 1-301-614-6695 Site Manager(s) Information: No Site Manager Information Available Responsible Institution(s): Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, Southern Great Plains http://www.arm.gov/docs/sites/sgp/sgp.html

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Image 3 - Another view of the sunphotometer site.
Image 4 - Another view of the sunphotometer site.
Image 5 - Another view of the sunphotometer site.
Image 6 - Another view of the sunphotometer site.

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