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  Tales From Cape Grim
Cape Grim – the name conjures images of Gothic horror stories – but instead, the location is one of the most scenically spectacular in Tasmania, which is saying a lot because the entire state boasts some of the most beautiful landscapes in the Southern Hemisphere.
Cape Grim is a baseline observatory – like the four that NOAA operates in various parts of the world.
The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station is operated by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology as part of a joint program between the Bureau and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
www.oar.noaa.gov /spotlite/archive/spot_capegrim.html   (1508 words)

  
 Cape Grim Carbon Isotope Record
Cape Grim in situ CO samples collected during the period August 1990 to October 1991 were analyzed on both the MAT252 and VG602D.
C of atmospheric CO are useful in elucidating the relative roles of oceanic and terrestrial uptake of CO from fossil fuel emissions.
C for Cape Grim for 1982 to 1993, but with a pronounced flattening from 1988 to 1990.
cdiac.ornl.gov /trends/co2/capegrim.html   (814 words)

  
 Blue Poles 04/26
Of particular interest is the transport of CF from the smelters to Cape Grim in north-west Tasmania.
The process of estimating emissions involves first identifying pollution episodes in the Cape Grim record that are attributed to air masses that passed over the Melbourne region before travelling across Bass Strait to Cape Grim.
Measurements of air from Antarctic firn (the compressed snow layer) are merged with flask measurements from Cape Grim and other baseline stations to provide a record of CO in the Southern Hemisphere back to the early 1900s.
www.dar.csiro.au /library/whatsnew/bparchive/bp0426.html   (6854 words)

  
 Accuracy of absolute precipitable water vapor estimates from GPS observations - Paul Tregoning et al
The latter was fixed at the climatological value for Cape Grim, deduced from analysis of 8 years of radiosonde ascents at Hobart and Laverton, the nearest radiosonde stations in the radiosonde archive maintained by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
The retrieval coefficients derived with Cape Grim ascents were closer to those with Hobart ascents, but in principle, both sets could be used to invert brightness temperatures to water vapor.
One could create a mapping function specific to Cape Grim by ray tracing through atmospheres with temperature and water vapor profiles estimated from the 116 radiosonde launches during the ACE1 experiment to generate a mapping function which is specifically tailored to the site of interest.
wwwrses.anu.edu.au /geodynamics/gps/papers/pw_jgr.html   (6351 words)

  
 Cape Grim Bottled Water
At Cape Grim it rains on average 185 days a year and it's cold.
The Cape Grim Water Company estate is comprised of barren rock and scrub, the nearest land mass on latitude 40 degrees South is South America, 16,000km away.
The remoteness of Cape Grim is both positive and negative.
www.finewaters.com /Bottled_Water/Australia/Cape_Grim.asp   (270 words)

  
 Cape Grim Officer Honoured with Award Media Release 06 February 2002
The longest serving officer stationed at Cape Grim's remote atmospheric facility in north-west Tasmania was honoured in a ceremony in Hobart today where he was awarded the Bureau of Meteorology's annual Australia Day award.
The work being undertaken at Cape Grim is giving us a better understanding of changes in the atmosphere".
Dr Stone presented the Award during the opening of this year's Cape Grim Science Meeting being hosted by the Cooperative Research Centre for the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Environment at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania.
www.deh.gov.au /minister/ps/2002/psmr06feb02.html   (334 words)

  
 Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Greenhouse Gas Monitoring - Joint media release ...
"The Cape Grim station, managed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology with a research partnership with CSIRO, contributes to world leading research into greenhouse gas trends and impacts," Mr Hunt said.
Mr Baker said the Cape Grim station continuously works with international agencies to contribute to a global climate change response.
"Cape Grim also represents Australia in the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme of the World Meteorological Organization which focuses on the effects of atmospheric composition on climate, the long-range atmospheric transmission and the deposition of potentially harmful substances, and the biogeochemical cycles and human impact on these cycles."
www.deh.gov.au /minister/ps/2006/psmr11apr06.html   (396 words)

  
 Earth Sciences - Cape Grim Scholarships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station Ph.D. Research Scholarship is awarded to candidates studying for the Ph.D. degree at the University of Melbourne.
The Cape Grim observatory, throughout its history, has played a pre-eminent role in monitoring global and regional trends in the key greenhouse gases and subsequent inferences about the distribution of sources.
Using a combination of observational and simulation techniques, the project aims to use the Cape Grim data to provide better confirmation of the satellite measurements, as well as making better estimates of the sources (and sinks) of greenhouse gases in the Australian region.
web.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au /scholarships/cape_grim   (383 words)

  
 Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Cape Grim is a joint program of the Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to monitor and understand global atmospheric composition.
O record at Cape Grim, which has been analysed to quantify the strength of emissions of this greenhouse gas from both the Australian mainland and Tasmania.
Cape Grim has also supported other activities at University of Wollongong, including work on isotopic signatures of greenhouse gases.
www.uow.edu.au /science/research/acrg/cg/capegrim.htm   (126 words)

  
 TRENDS: ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The sampling site at Cape Grim, Tasmania, is operated in cooperation with Graeme Pearman and Paul Fraser of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO's) Division of Atmospheric Research.
Cape Grim replaced Kaitorete Spit, New Zealand, in the NOAA/CMDL network after it was established that Cape Grim was a more suitable site for representative measurements at that latitude (Conway et al.
This represents an annual increase of 1.43 ppm at Cape Grim in comparison with the increase of 1.43 ppm per year reported by Conway et al.
cdiac.esd.ornl.gov /trends/co2/noa2/capg-tre.htm   (267 words)

  
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The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station is one of 23 Global Atmosphere Watch Stations and will have been in continuous operation for 30 years in April 2006.
A new program monitoring aerosol chemistry at 144m above sea level (at the 50m level on the tower at Cape Grim, to ensure sampling is free from the influence of the cliff bluff) commenced in July.
The instrument will be used at Cape Grim to assess the differences between the ocean flux from the oceans west of Cape Grim, when compared to the measurements made at Baring Head (NZ) in air derived from the ocean to the east of NZ, as there are anecdotal differences.
www.uea.ac.uk /env/solas/research/SOLASP2P2006.doc   (1668 words)

  
 CSIRO Corporate Media Release 96/138   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Minister was speaking at a function at Cape Grim to mark 20 years of observations.
Measurements at Cape Grim are showing the impact of human activity on the atmosphere.
Since measurements at Cape Grim began in 1976, levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have risen by 10 per cent.
www.csiro.au /communication/mediarel/mr96138.htm   (417 words)

  
 The Cape Grim Program
The Cape Grim program, established by the Australian Government to monitor and study global atmospheric composition, is a joint responsibility of the Bureau of Meteorology and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The Bureau is responsible for the funding and management of the station's operation and liaison with the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme on relevant policy and program coordination aspects.
As well as monitoring a wide range of atmospheric trace gases, Cape Grim measures concentrations of natural and anthropogenic particles, and meteorological parameters including wind speed and direction, rainfall, temperature, humidity and air pressure.
www.bom.gov.au /inside/cgbaps/information.shtml   (429 words)

  
 Cape Grim
The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station is located in remote north-western Tasmania, in the path of the roaring forties, which are strong westerly winds that carry pollution-free air thousands of kilometres across the Southern Ocean.
The station, which the Bureau of Meteorology operates as part of a joint program with CSIRO Atmospheric Research, is a highly sophisticated, world-class facility.
Key issues are the maintenance of long-term high precision measurements of atmospheric composition; identification of the processes that influence atmospheric composition at Cape Grim, and their spatial scales; and testing current hypotheses concerning tropospheric chemistry through comprehensive measurements and modelling.
www.dar.csiro.au /capegrim   (170 words)

  
 Cape Grim: Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (Tas) (Profile - Facility)
The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station supplies vital information about changes to the atmospheric composition of the Southern Hemisphere.
The Cape Grim air pollution monitoring station, located in remote north-western Tasmania, provides vital information about changes to the atmosphere.
As well as monitoring a wide range of atmospheric trace gases, scientists at Cape Grim measure concentrations of natural and pollutant particles.
www.csiro.au /csiro/content/standard/pps64,,.html   (301 words)

  
 Ewing Symposium Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
C sampling programs at Cape Grim, the long-running in situ extraction of CO from air (CIA, 3-5 per month) and whole air collections in 0.5 litre glass flasks (CGA, ~ 6 per month) for subsequent extraction and automated analysis at CSIRO.
On timescales long compared to the interhemispheric mixing time of 6-12 months, IAV in the Cape Grim CO record is practically indistinguishable from global average values.
This is compared to terrestrial IAV obtained by subtracting atmospheric accumulation (Cape Grim CO growth rate, Beardsmore et al., pers.
www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /Lamont/EwingSymp/Francey.html   (678 words)

  
 In situ Carbon 13 and Oxygen 18 Ratios of Atmospheric CO2 from Cape Grim, Tasmania, Australia: 1982-1993, CDIAC/DB1014
More detail about the CSIRO isotopic measurement program at Cape Grim may be found in Allison et al.
The data are available in one file "isotope.cgo" and contains in situ carbon 13 and oxygen 18 ratios of atmospheric CO2 from Cape Grim for 1982-1993.
The Cape Grim data are located in pub/db1014.
gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov /records/GCMD_CDIAC_DB1014.html   (534 words)

  
 Grim - GameSpy: Grim Fandango
The Grim DotCom: A weekly comic starring the adventures of the Grim Reaper who finds that what he loves doing most needs an update, by René van Densen.
Cape Grim: a joint program of the Bureau of Meteorology and the Cape Grim provisional observations at 06:00 AEST on 22 Jan 2006
Grim was an eyewitness and, in fact, tried to stop the first blow.
findoutwebsite.com /fows/grim.htm   (442 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The Cape Tribulation flux station was established in March 2001 and is located on leased land
It is managed by James Cook University* staff within the CRC for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management* Project 2: Net Ecosystem Exchange of Carbon, Heat and Water in a Tropical Rainforest, which resides within CRC-TREM Program 3: Forest Canopy Dynamics and Processes.
The Cape Tribulation flux station is supported by the CRC-TREM.
tesla.jcu.edu.au /ozflux/CapeTribHome.htm   (83 words)

  
 Cloud Absorption Anomaly Data Set
The ERBS data was therefore used for Samoa and Cape Grim, while NOAA 9&10 data were used for Barrow.
Four clear-sky files from ERBE, one for Cape Grim and three for American Samoa, are included in this collection for reference, although they were not actually used to derive cloud absorption information.
For American Samoa and Cape Grim, ERBS scanner measurements within the specified temporal and spatial limits were extracted from the S8 tapes and collocated with the pyranometer measurements.
disc.gsfc.nasa.gov /interdisc/readmes/csa.shtml   (3328 words)

  
 Woolnorth Tours includes tours of Cape Grim, Hydro Wind Farm, Woolnorth Point and Great Southern Ocean.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Visit Cape Grim on Woolnorth's rugged Tasmanian west coast and breathe the cleanest air in the world.
This is recorded at the Baseline Air Pollution Station that is situated on the cliffs of the Cape Grim coastline.
Breathe the cleanest air in the world at Cape Grim.
www.woolnorthtours.com.au   (125 words)

  
 ORGANIC NITROGEN IN RAIN AND ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL AT CAPE GRIM, TASMANIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
It is important to quantify these atmospheric depositions because N is a limiting nutrient in many areas of the oceans, and because atmospheric deposition of N is expected to increase in the coming decades due to anthropogenic influence.
From October-December 2000, rain, and bulk and size-separated aerosols were collected at the Cape Grim Baseline Atmospheric Pollution Station (CGBAPS)located in Tasmania, Australia, and analyzed for bulk organic N and individual organic N species, including urea and amino acids.
As far as we know, this is the first study conducted in the Southern Hemisphere atmosphere aimed at bulk organic N analysis in relation to urea and aminoacids.
www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts/IM-01/IM01-26.htm   (312 words)

  
 DPIW - Tasmanian Air Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The highest recorded wind gust in Tasmania was 176km/h at Cape Grim on 28 July 1998.
'Cape Grim', or rather the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station
Of course, when the wind is blowing from Melbourne, or even Hobart, air pollution levels at Cape Grim can be quite high, on a par with levels seen downwind from other urban areas around the world!
www.dpiw.tas.gov.au /inter.nsf/WebPages/MCLE-5WS97V?open   (493 words)

  
 UOW News -Cape Grim Working Group meets in Wollongong
The Cape Grim Working Group recently met at the University of Wollongong.
Cape Grim is Australia's baseline atmospheric measurement station, located at the north-western corner of Tasmania.
The station has been operating since 1976, recording changes in the atmosphere, such as the build up of carbon dioxide and the CFCs (chloroflurocarbons, responsible for global ozone depletion).
media.uow.edu.au /news/2004/0723a   (227 words)

  
 Aerosol optical depth at Cape Grim, Tasmania, 1986–1999
Aerosol optical depth at Cape Grim, Tasmania, 1986–1999
The aerosol optical depth at four wavelengths (368, 500, 778, and 868 nm) has been measured automatically at Cape Grim since 1986.
Citation: Wilson, S., and B. Forgan (2002), Aerosol optical depth at Cape Grim, Tasmania, 1986–1999, J.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001JD000398.shtml   (288 words)

  
 Australia Pacific Touring - Tasman Temptation
The remote coastline around South Bruny Island National Park, Tasmania's newest national park, features towering crags with sculpted features, 'breathing' rock, deep sea caves and the opportunity to zoom between the coast and Monumental Rock and feel the mighty power of the Southern Ocean where it meets the Tasman Sea.
The Nut, Woolnorth Wind Farm, Cape Grim, Smithton.
Tour Cape Grim and revitalise your senses with the world’s cleanest air, before enjoying afternoon tea.
www.aptouring.com.au /content.asp?Document_ID=27023   (1068 words)

  
 Welcome to the Australian Greens Online - Cape Grim weather data sounds alarm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Senator Christine Milne » Cape Grim weather data sounds alarm
Measurements of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere collected at Cape Grim in north-west Tasmania sound an alarm about the pace of global warming, Australian Greens climate change spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said today.
The data is contained in a report by Dr Paul Fraser from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research to be presented to a climate change conference being held in Sydney today and tomorrow.
greens.org.au /mediacentre/mediareleases/senatormilne/170506c   (408 words)

  
 Cape Grim turns 30 - 11/04/2006
Tasmania's Cape Grim air monitoring station is today celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Dr Peter Ellyard, a senior consultant to the UN environment program and to UNESCO, says Cape Grim's contribution to managing climate change should not be underestimated.
These days Peter Ellyard calls himself a futurist and he's the executive director of Melbourne company Preferred Futures, which works with organisations and communities to help them plan for the 21st century.
www.abc.net.au /rural/tas/content/2006/s1613867.htm   (133 words)

  
 Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station
Cape Grim: a joint program of the Bureau of Meteorology and the
Cape Grim provisional observations at 01:00 AEST on 22 Aug 2006
Contact details Cape Grim Program Station Specs Meteorological Data Core Programs Photos
www.bom.gov.au /inside/cgbaps/index.shtml   (123 words)

  
 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
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Marine aerosol chemistry at Cape Grim, Tasmania, and Townsville, Queensland
During September 1979, aerosol samples were collected at two coastal sites in the southern hemisphere: Cape Grim, Tasmania, in the southern temperate latitudes, and Townsville, Queensland, in the subtropical region.^Cascade impactors and stacked filter units were used for sampling.^The samples were analyzed for the light elements (6
www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6572807   (163 words)

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