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Henties_Bay (Henties Bay, Namibia)

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Image 1 - view of the sunphotometer Image 2 - view of the sunphotometer Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 22.09506° South Longitude: 14.25974° East Elevation: 20.0 Meters Site Description: The instrument is located on the roof of a tower attached to one of the buildings at the University of Namibia Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center. This is approximately one kilometer Northof the fishing village of Henties Bay. Aerosol sources include the Atlantic ocean, which is 150 meters away to the West and the Namib Desert which comes right up to the beach, and extends inland to the East across Namibia and Botswana. There are large sand dunes between the towns of Swakopmund, 70km to the South, and Luderitz, about 500km to the South of Henties Bay. There are numerous salt pans scatteredaround the area, with commercial salt mining activities about 20 kilometers North of Henties Bay. Etosha Pan is approximately 350 kilometers to the North East of the site. The area is also suspected to be affected by biomass burning in Angola during the winter season. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Stuart Piketh E-mail: stuart.piketh@nwu.ac.za Prof Stuart J. Piketh School of Geo- and Spatial Science Unit for Env. Sc. and Management North-West University Potchefstroom Tel: +27 18 299 1582 Cell: +27 82 806 3026 Fax: +27 18 299 1496 e-mail: stuart.piketh@nwu.ac.za AND Paola Formenti E-mail: paola.formenti@lisa.ipsl.fr Paola Formenti CNRS Researcher, PhD Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA, UMR 7583) 61, Av. du Générale de Gaulle 94010 Créteil FRANCE tel: +33 (1) 82 39 20 49 fax: +33(0)1 45 17 15 64 Email: paola.formenti@lisa.ipsl.fr www.lisa.u-pec.fr/~formenti/ Site Manager(s) Information: Andreas Namwoonde Email: anamwoonde@unam.na Andreas Namwoonde UNAM Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center Henties Bay, Namibia Tel: +264 64 502 612 Email: anamwoonde@unam.na AND Edosa Omoregie Email: omoregie@unam.na Prof. Edosa Omoregie UNAM Marine and Coastal Resources Research Center Henties Bay, Namibia Tel: +264 64 502 610 Email: Responsible Institution(s): Climatology Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg http://crg.wits.ac.za/ Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA, UMR 7583)

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