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Collaboration
The Ilorin observation site
operates under the auspices of Professor S. O. O. O. O. Amali,
Vice-Chancellor, Professor O. B. Oloyede, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Professor
J. O. Adeniyi, Head of the Department of Physics. Professor C. Akoshile serves as the station
Manager. Professor R.
T. Pinker, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University
of Maryland, directs research related to observations made at
this site. The University of Ilorin has committed technical help
for the daily supervision of the station. The University
of Maryland was instrumental in setting the station up, training
local scientists, providing data quality checks, database preparation
and transfer to designated centers, as well as conducting collaborative
research with the information collected.
Dr. E. Dutton, NOAA/ERL/CMDL,
Director of the Baseline
Surface Radiation Network (BSRN ), provides help with instrument
calibration. B. Holben, Manager of the AERONET
network, supports the calibration and upgrading of the CIMEL
sun photometer, which measures optical properties of aerosol. Help
and data archiving is being provided by the World Radiation
Monitoring Center (WRMC) , the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule
(ETH ), Zurich, Switzerland. Finally, funds for Ilorin
site personnel participation at BSRN international meetings are
provided by the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) /WCRP.
Maintained by Chuan Li
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