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Image 1 - A view of the sunphotometer site. Image 2 - Close-up view of the instrument on the platform. Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 31.62583° North Longitude: 8.15583° West Elevation: 420.0 Meters Site Description: The sun photometer is installed on the roof of a technical building (8m. high) in the middle of a farmer's orchard, located in an irrigated plain. The Saada site is 10km west of Marrakech and 50km north of the Haut-Atlas mountains. Principal Investigator(s) Information: Bernard Mougenot E-mail: Bernard.Mougenot@ird.fr Bernard Mougenot IRD (Inst. de recherche pour le developpement) CESBIO (Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere) 18, avenue Edouard Belin - bpi 2801 31401 Toulouse cedex 9, FRANCE Phone: +33 5 61 55 8501; fax: +33 5 61 55 85 00 email: Bernard.Mougenot@ird.fr AND Saïd Khabba  E-mail: khabba@uca.ma Said Khabba Centre Geber salle 26 Faculte des Sciences Semlalia Universite Cadi Ayyad, BP 2390 Marrakech, MOROCCO Phone/fax: +212 (0)5 24 43 16 26 E-mail: saidkhabba@gmail.com, khabba@uca.ma Site Manager(s) Information: Mohamed Kasbani Email: kasbanimohamed@yahoo.fr Mohamed Kasbani Centre Geber salle 26 Faculte des Sciences Semlalia Universite Cadi Ayyad, BP 2390 Marrakech, MOROCCO Phone:+212 640 45 94 24 Fax: +212 (0)5 24 43 16 26 Email: kasbanimohamed@yahoo.fr AND Pascal Fanise Email: pascal.fanise@ird.fr Pascal Fanise IRD (Institut de recherche pour le developpement) CESBIO (Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere) 18, avenue Edouard Belin - bpi 2801 31401 Toulouse cedex 9, FRANCE Phone: +33 5 61 55 85 01 Fax: +33 5 61 55 85 00 Email: pascal.fanise@ird.fr Responsible Institution(s): CESBIO / Centre d'Etude Spatiales de la Biosphere (UMR 5126 UPS-CNRS-CNES-IRD), Toulouse, France http://www.cesbio.ups-tlse.fr/ FSSM/ Faculte des Sciences Semlalia Marrakech et faculte des Sciences et techniques de Gueliz/ FSTG, Universite Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco http://www.uca.ma/site/ http://trema.ucam.ac.ma/ LOA/ Laboratoire d'Optique Atmospherique, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/

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