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Zouerate-Fennec (Zouerate, Mauritania)

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Site Coordinates and Elevation:

  • Latitude: 22.75000° North
  • Longitude: 12.48333° West
  • Elevation: 343.0 Meters

Site Description:

  • Instrument is on roof on ONM building on edge of Zouerate a small desert town (pop. 38,000). Remote location in western Sahara desert, far from large cities. On periphery of major dust aerosol loadings over central western Sahara.

Principal
Investigator(s)
Information:

  • Martin Todd
  • E-mail: m.todd@sussex.ac.uk
  • Martin Todd
    Department of Geography
    University of Sussex
    Brighton
    BN1 9QJ
    Tel. +44 (0)1273 873723
    Email: m.todd@sussex.ac.uk

Site Manager(s) Information:
  • Abdoulaye Gandega
  • Email: gandega8@yahoo.fr
  • Abdoulaye Gandega
    Office National de Meteorologie de Mauritanie
    ONM, Ilot C281, Nouakchott
    Mauritania
    Tel. 00 222 22067729
    Email: gandega8@yahoo.fr



  • AND

  • Mohamed Bechir Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
  • Email: mbechirml@yahoo.fr
  • Mohamed Bechir Ould Mohamed Laghdaf
    Directeur general ONM
    Phone# 00 222 46 74 40 20
    Email: mbechirml@yahoo.fr


  • AND

  • Sidi Lemine
  • Email: sidiloudey2@yahoo.fr
  • Sidi Lemine
    Phone# 00222 22098142
    Email: sidiloudey2@yahoo.fr


  • AND

  • Souleymane Traore
  • Email:
  • Souleymane Traore
    Phone# 00222 46465084

Responsible Institution(s):
  • University of Sussex, UK
    www.sussex.ac.uk/climatechange

    Natural Environment Research Council
    www.nerc.ac.uk

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