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Image 1 - View of the instrument. Image 2 - View of the instrument. Image 1 Image 2   Site Coordinates and Elevation: Latitude: 37.93285° North Longitude: 75.47195° West Elevation: 37.0 Meters Site Description: The instrument is mounted on the platform of an old radar tower located on top of an aircraft hangar at the NASA GSFC Wallops Flight Facility. This site is situated ~2 km from Chincoteague Bay and ~15 km from the Atlantic Ocean to the east and ~25km from the Chesapeake Bay to the west. Agriculture activities are prominent along the Virginia Eastern Shore of the Delmarva peninsula.**When accessing the tower for maintenance, stay on the metal grinding of the tower and stay off the wooden covers on the top level of the tower Principal Investigator(s) Information: Pawan Gupta E-mail: pawan.gupta@nasa.gov Pawan Gupta Code 618 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Elena Lind E-mail: elena.lind@nasa.gov Elena Lind Code 618 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Site Manager(s) Information: Jim Yungel Email: james.k.yungel@nasa.gov Jim Yungel Wallops Flight Facility Bldg N-159, Room E203 Wallops Island, VA, 23337 Phone: 757-824-1060; Fax: 757-824-1036 E-mail: james.k.yungel@nasa.gov AND Matt Linkswiler Email: Matthew.A.Linkswiler@nasa.gov Matt Linkswiler NASA / Wallops Flight Facility Bldg N-159, Room E203 Wallops Island, VA 23337 Phone: 757-824-1020 Email: Matthew.A.Linkswiler@nasa.gov Responsible Institution(s): NASA'S AERONET http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA's Wallops Flight Facility http://www.wff.nasa.gov/index.html

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Image 3 - Old radar tower located on top of an aircraft hangar at the NASA GSFC Wallops Flight Facility
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Last Generated: 29 SEP 2023