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La_Paz (La Paz, Bolivia)

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Image 1 - view of the sun photometer Image 2 - view of the sun photometer Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 16.53900° South Longitude: 68.06647° West Elevation: 3439.0 Meters Site Description: The instrument is located at the roof of the Sciences Building at the Physics Department, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. The Physics Department is in turn located at the University Campus in a neighborhood called Cota-Cota at the outskirts of city of La Paz. Due to its location the instrument points out at the center of the city during afternoons but almost at a rural site during mornings (although the horizon is not good at that time). The main source of aerosols at this site are related to smoke produced by biomass burning transported from the lowlands and dust from the Altiplano. Urban aerosols also contribute to the aerosol loading despite the fact that there are relatively few big factories in the metropolitan area. The nearest large city is at more than 200 km away south of La Paz. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Pawan Gupta E-mail: pawan.gupta@nasa.gov Pawan Gupta NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 618. Bldg.33. Rm.G412 Greenbelt, MD. 20771 Tel: 301-614-6658 Email: pawan.gupta@nasa.gov Elena Lind E-mail: elena.lind@nasa.gov Elena Lind NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 618. Bldg.33. Rm.G414 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Tel: 301-614-6629 Email: elena.lind@nasa.gov Site Manager(s) Information: Marcos F. Andrade, Ph.D. Email: mandrade@atmos.umd.edu Dr; Marcos Andrade Laboratorio de Fisica de la Atmosfera Universidad Mayor de San Andres Av. Villazon 1995 zl La Paz Bolivia Email: mandrade@atmos.umd.edu Tel. Fax. (+591)2799155 Responsible Institution(s): NASA Goddard Space Flight Center AERONET Project http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés

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