Cape Matatula, American Samoa
Northeast corner
of the Observatory, WWII concrete supports located in foreground.
(Photo by P. Roberts, courtesy of CMDL NOAA )
View from the Bluesky Tower taken July 4th, 2002.
(Photo by P. Roberts, courtesy of CMDL NOAA)
Hudson building and tower
The Samoa Observatory is located on the northeastern tip of Tutuila island, American Samoa, on a ridge overlooking the South Pacific Ocean. The observatory was established in 1974 on a 26.7 acre site as one of the CMDL Baseline Observatories. The AGAGE started measuring atmospheric CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, methyl chloroform, CCl4, N2O and CH4 in 1978 by using high-precision GC-multidetector system.
Station Information
| Latitude: 140 S | Longitude: 1710 W |
| Elevation: 77 m | Time Zone: GMT-11 |
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| Station PIs: |
Ray Weiss, rfw@gaslab.ucsd.edu |
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