Facilities

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1. Cloudbase Recorder

   At the base of the met tower is a white box housing a laser. It fires a beam straight up and measures the time delay on the return beam to calculate the height of the clouds that reflect it.

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2. Sky Photometer

   The sky radiometer is an instrument that measures the extent to which light from the Sun is scattered as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere. This allows us to calculate the size and density of the particles that are scattering the light.

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3. Weather balloons

   Weather balloons are launched four times a week and a device called a radiosonde hangs beneath the helium-filled balloon and measures temperature, pressure and humidity. From GPS we can also calculate wind speed and direction. Measurements are taken every 2 seconds and transmitted back to base.

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4. Meteorological measurements

   The meteorological data are use in real time for aircraft operation and also sent to the UK Met Office for distribution on the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) to be used in forecast models.

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5. SAOZ

   SAOZ measures sunlight scattered from the overhead sky in a way that allows us to calculate how much of the atmospheric gases ozone and nitrogen dioxide the light has passed through on its journey.

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6. Dobson Spectrophotometer

   The Dobson spectrophotometer measures the amount of column ozone above the measurement site.

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7. Cloudbase Recorder

   On the roof of the science module is a white box housing a laser. It fires a beam straight up and measures the time delay on the return beam to calculate the height of the clouds that reflect it.

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8. Sky Photometer

   The sky radiometer is an instrument that measures the extent to which light from the Sun is scattered as it travels through the Earth’s atmosphere. This allows us to calculate the size and density of the particles that are scattering the light.

   Read more of: Sky Photometer

   

9. Meteorological measurements

   The meteorological data are use in real time for aircraft operation and also sent to the UK Met Office for distribution on the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) to be used in forecast models.

   Read more of: Meteorological measurements

   

10. BSA1 (Horseshoe Bay)

    The cameras records daily images, providing annual data on Adélie and chinstrap penguin population size, phenology and breeding success.

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11. BSA2 (Cornish Island)

    The cameras records daily images, providing annual data on Adélie and chinstrap penguin population size, phenology and breeding success.

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12. BREN (Brenekke Nunatak GPS)

    The cameras records daily images, providing annual data on Adélie and chinstrap penguin population size, phenology and breeding success: essential BAS ecosystems LTMS data and core CCAMLR deliverable. This data […]

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