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Image 1 - n/a Image 2 - n/a Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 29.73889° North Longitude: 35.38583° East Elevation: 782.0 Meters Site Description: The instrument will be installed on ground level in the desert of Wadi Rum close to the city of Al Quwayrah in southern Jordan. Next larger city is Aqaba. The instrument will be operated for an international mineral Dust Campaign the Swabian which focusses on the update an atmospheric transport of mineral dust. 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: Andreas Wieser Email: 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 Responsible Institution(s): KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association http://www.kit.edu Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research http://www.imk-tro.kit.edu KITcube www.kitcube.kit.edu

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