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Cap_d_En_Font (Cap d'en Font, Menorca)

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View of the sun photometer looking towards SSW.
View of the sun photometer looking towards NW.
Image 1 - View of the sun photometer looking towards SSW.
Image 2 - View of the sun photometer looking towards NW.
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Site Coordinates and Elevation:

  • Latitude: 39.82572° North
  • Longitude: 4.20817° East
  • Elevation: 10.0 Meters

Site Description:
  • This station is a field campaign site of the project ChArMEx. The photometer is on the flat terrace of a 1-floor occupied house on a small peninsula at Cap d'en Font on the southwestern coast of Menorca Island (adress is 46 Passeig des Cap d'en Font, 07711 Cap d'en Font, Menorca). It is situated in a small residential district of vacation villas, at about 60 m in direct view of the small cliff on the seashore and at about 3000 m south of the international airport landing track of Mahon. It has no obstacle over 360°. The station includes a home-made aerosol backscattering UV-lidar with depolarization and Raman-N2 and -H2O channels (PI Patrick.Chazette@cea.fr) and some in situ aerosol measurements.

Principal
Investigator(s)
Information:
  • François Dulac
  • E-mail: francois.dulac@cea.fr
    • François Dulac
    Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) UMR 8212 CEA-CNRS-UVSQ CEA Saclay 701
    F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
    France
    tel. +33 1 69 08 86 79
    fax: +33 1 69 08 77 16
    mobile: +33 6 80 02 52 81
    Email: francois.dulac@cea.fr
Site Manager(s) Information:
  • Julien Totems
  • Email: julien.totems@lsce.ipsl.fr
  • Julien Totems
    LSCE, CEA
    Saclay 701
    F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
    Tel: +33169083087
    Fax: +33169087716
    email: julien.totems@lsce.ipsl.fr
Responsible Institution(s):
  • The photometer is owned by CEA/LSCE (http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/)
    and calibrated and maintained by LOA in the framework of PHOTONS, the French AERONET component supported by CNES, CNRS and University of Lille. It is deployed in the French-Spanish station of Menorca Island set up for the summer-2013 campaign of the project ChArMEx (the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment; http://charmex.lsce.ipsl.fr),
    sponsored in France by CNRS-INSU and CEA through the French programme MISTRALS, and by ANR through the project LOAC, and in Spain by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the project ChArMEx-Spain.

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Image 3 - View of the sun photometer and of the LSCE instrumented van. View of the sun photometer and of the LSCE instrumented van.

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