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Image 1 - View of sunphotometer with Professor Jan-Peter Muller. Image 2 - View of sunphotometer. Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 51.52427° North Longitude: 0.13110° West Elevation: 46.6 Meters Site Description: Mounted on Aluminium plate using U-bolts to a corner location at a rooftop location at 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK. To the south the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament can be observed. To the West, the BT transmitter tower (the tallest structure in London) can also be clearly seen. The Urban Atmospheric Observatory (UAO) located on the rooftop of the building housing administrative staff and the Bartlett School of Architecture Postgraduate Research school is next to one of the busiest streets in London (Tottenham Court Road) and the nearby area is bounded by Oxford Street on the South and Marylebone Road to the North which have recorded at street level some of the highest pollution levels (both PM2.5 and PM10) in Europe, well beyond the EU-EEA exceedance limits. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Jan-Peter Muller E-mail: jpm@mssl.ucl.ac.uk Prof. Jan-Peter Muller Mullard Space Science Laboratory Department of Space and Climate Physics University College London Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK Phone: +44-1483-204151 Fax: +44-1483-278312 email: jpm@mssl.ucl.ac.uk http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=rh5+6nt&z=17&t=h Site Manager(s) Information: Matthias Disney Email: mdisney@geog.ucl.ac.uk Dr Matthias Disney Department of Geography University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Phone: +44-207-679-0592 Fax: +44-207-679-0565 email: mdisney@geog.ucl.ac.uk Responsible Institution(s): University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK http://www.ucl.ac.uk/

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Image 3 - View of sunphotometer.
Image 4 - A fisheye lens image with a 170 degree FoV taken at the CIMEL height by Mat Disney.

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