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Image 1 - Image 2 - Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 33.61054° North Longitude: 102.05054° West Elevation: 1021.0 Meters Site Description: The CIMEL at Texas Tech University has been deployed on June 14, 2023 at the Reese Technology Center (RTC), located in the center of the West Texas Mesonet which provide timely, research-quality mesoscale weather and grid information in a region where a steady and predictable wind resource provides support for research endeavors the entire year. The RTC site itself includes several instrumented towers, utility and research scale wind turbines, and various remote sensing devices to provide a diverse foundation of information for current and future research activities and technology development.The CIMEL CE318-T (henceforth photometer) has been deployed on the roof of a control room housing (single stored building with base of 20 m by 10 m and height of 4 m). The roof is easily accessible via a newly constructed rail-stair and the roof platform has been secured with a metal rope fence with an area (3 m by 2 m) around the photometer platform to cover the entire footprint of the photometer. An aluminum rack platform has been constructed where the base of the photometer is mounted on the top of the rack. A rainproof box has been constructed and attached to the east side of the platform where the controller unit of the CIMEL is housed and other accessories are connected. The site (33.61 °N, 102.05 °W, 1021 m MSL) is located in northwestern Texas about 20 km west of Lubbock. The region around the site is classified as a cold semi-arid climate (BSk, whereby at least one month’s average temperature is < 0 °C) based on the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. The area surrounding the site is characterized by wild grasses. The regions’ climatological patterns yield an annual rainfall of about 50 cm defining the site to be a semi-arid site. Other instruments include a 200m instrumented tower (10 levels, with power and data logging, 50Hz Gill 3D sonic anemometers, and PTH), a sodar, and two Doppler lidars (one scanning), hub of West Texas Mesonet sites (WTM), 48 deployable StickNet meteorological probes, and a mobile laboratory van with Vaisala MW41 and GRAW sounding systems. Additionally, plenty of open land, power and internet is available for other instruments. On the TTU main campus, the AEROS aerosol laboratory collects routine measurements of aerosol properties, concentrations, and particle size distributions. Also, EPA aerosol monitoring site is located in the center of city of Lubbock (~ 20 km east of the photometer site).  Principal Investigator(s) Information: Sandip Pal E-mail: sandip.pal@ttu.edu Dr. Sandip Pal Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science Texas Tech University Department of Geosciences 3003 15th street MCOM (Media and Communication Building) Room #1213 Lubbock, TX-79409 Tel: 806-834-1326 Email: sandip.pal@ttu.edu Site Manager(s) Information: Brian Hirth Email: brian.hirth@ttu.edu Dr. Brian Hirth Research Professor National Wind Institute Reese Technology Center 9713 11th Drive. Bldg 250 Lubbock, Texas-79416 Email: brian.hirth@ttu.edu Phone: 806-834-0717 Responsible Institution(s): Texas Tech University https://www.ttu.edu/

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