Coordinates:
22.24070° S,
114.09670° E
Elevation: 9.0 m
Site Description
(f) The Learmonth Solar Observatory (LSO) is located approx.. 3 km North of the Met Bureau station. The LSO is jointly operated by the U.S. Army and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. (e) The Australian Bureau of Meteorology operates a station about 500m from the Learmonth airport terminal. The Learmonth AeroSpan/AERONET station is located near the Bureau of Meteorology instruments. Classified as RAAF ‘bare base’: Land owned by Department of Defence; can become active RAAF base if necessary; was used as such during WWII owing to its extreme westerly location. The region shows high frequency of dust storms, the source of which is possibly due to advection of dust from the Australian interior via the “North-Western dust pathway”. It is adjacent to the Ningaloo reef (coral) in the nearby Indian Ocean. The nearest town is Exmouth, 36km north of Learmonth
Ian Lau CSIRO Mineral Resources 26 Dick Perry Avenue Kensington, Western Australia Australia. (Post code) 6151 Phone is +61 86436 8646 Email: ian.lau@csiro.au