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Mike Alsop (site technician) shows Peter Lamb (University of Oklahoma) around one of the vans |
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Interior view of van |
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Some of the real-time displays |
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Close-up view of one of the real-time displays |
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More real-time displays |
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Mike shows Issa Lele (Peter's student) the lidar display |
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Hmm; what does that mean? |
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Close-up of the Lidar, which fires vertically through a hole in the roof of the van. |
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Radiometer stands. These will be moved, or the gravel removed, so the underlying surface is more representative. |
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View of the vans and of the connecting tent, which provides protection and another level of security. Note the Met tower. The main airport complex is behind the camera. |
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Radiometer stands. |
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Peter, Issa Lele and Mike in front of the vans. |
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Peter Lamb, Mike Alsop and Tony Slingo in front of the radiometers. |
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Peter Lamb, Mike Alsop and Tony Slingo in front of the radiometers. |
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All-sky camera. |
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Close-up of the upward-looking radiometers. |
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I can't remember what this is. Can Mike remind me, please?. |
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Keeping track of time. |
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Visit to the ASECNA forecast office just across from the ARM site. We were asked to write something in the visitor's book, which was quite an honour. |
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The second site is about 50km outside Niamey, in the Sahel, at a site operated by a French group. They have a building and met tower. The ARM site is physically independent, although a local man provides valuable security cover for both facilities. The photo shows us carrying water out to top up the simple, but effective, cooler that keeps the batteries at an even temperature. |
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The equipment is at the end of a short track. We weren't supposed to stray away from this, as the erosion in the area is also a subject of study. |
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Getting ready to top up the cooler. |
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Radiometer stand (not yet fully wired up). |
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Typical view of this part of the Sahel. |
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Mike syphons water into the cooler. |
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Almost done. |
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Peter Lamb in the Sahel. |
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Peter Lamb in the Sahel. |
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I was there, too, and I stayed on the path!. |
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Anemometer and groundrads. The wind is blowing from the climatological Harmattan direction: North-East. |
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View back to the French site, with our 4x4 (Essential transport; from Niamey there is pavement, but this degenerates into gravel then sand near the site. Very bouncy.) |
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General view before returning to Niamey. |
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Back at the Grand Hotel, on the terrace. |
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Sunset over the Niger river, seen from the terrace. |
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The sun finally sets, we have a Niger Beer and the mosquitos come out for dinner. |
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