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Image 1 - View of the sun photometer and Dead Sea. Image 2 - View of the sun photometer. Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 31.32255° North Longitude: 35.37230° East Elevation: -350.0 Meters Site Description: Cimel No. 102 loan instrument from NASA. Installed on desert soil at Masada Opera Area 0.6 cm above ground level. Locaion is 1.7 km east of Masada fortification and 3 km west of the Dead Sea coast. Aerosol sources in the proximity are desert soil and sea salt from the Dead Sea. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Andreas Wieser E-mail: andreas.wieser@kit.edu Dr. Andreas Wieser KITcube Science Director Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK) Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany Tel: +49 721 608 22841 Cell: +49 151 20009897 Fax: +49 721 608 24377 mailto:andreas.wieser@kit.edu Site Manager(s) Information: No Site Manager Information Available Responsible Institution(s): Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO) http://www.kitcube.kit.edu

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