Chile - Punta Arenas

Person in charge

Prof. Dr. Boris Barja González
Laboratorio de Investigaciones Atmosférica (LIA)
Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG)
Av. Bulnes 01855, Punta Arenas, Chile
Código Postal 621-0427
Tlf: (+56) 61 2207181
mail: boris.barja (at) umag (dot) cl

Other people involved

• Felix Zamorano Banda - Dr. in Space Geophysics - Full Professor, UMAG, Chile

• Raul Pérez - Tech. in Instrumentation. - Technician, UMAG, Chile

Experimental Sites

Punta Arenas, Universidad de Magallanes.

LOCATION: 53.134361 S, 70.880167 W, 10 m asl

• Multiwavelength raman Lidar / Emits 1064, 532, 355 / Detects 1064, 532o, 532p, 355o, 355p, 387, 408, 607

• Optical Particle Analysis System (Turnkey Instrument) - TOPAS

• Brewer Spectrophotometer MK-III

• Lockheed Martin LMG6 Radiosonde Ground System (Ozone sounding)

• Automatic Meteorological Station

• Solar Radiation Instruments

• Mobile Laboratory for atmospheric Monitoring

Atmospheric Observatory Monte Fenton, Monte Fenton (Cerro Mirador), Punta Arenas.

LOCATION: 53.16° S, 71.05° W, 612 m a.s.l.

• Automatic Meteorological Station.

• SMPS (Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer) from Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS).

• Cloud Condensation Nucleus Counter (CCNc) design manufactured by Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT) in collaboration with TROPOS.

• SR50A-L Sonic Ranging Sensor for snow depth (in colaboration with INACH).

• T-200B All Weather Precipitation – Rain Gauge (in colaboration with INACH)

• CPDT (Passive Colector for Total Particles) (in collaboration with CETAM, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María).

• Aerosols samples in filters for Chemical Analisys and Ice Nuclei Particles determination. 

• TMS dataloggers from TOMST to measure air and soil temperatures as well as soil moisture (in Collaboration with University of Miami and University of Talca)

• Precipitation collector to isotopic measurements (in collaboration with Hidrologic Laboratory - UMAG)