Cape Grim Air Archive

Cape Grim Air Archive (Kennaook/Cape Grim)
Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station
Field of research
atmospheric science
LocationCape Grim/Kennaook, Tasmania, Australia
40°40′59″S 144°41′24″E / 40.68306°S 144.69000°E / -40.68306; 144.69000
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Cape Grim Air Archive is located in Tasmania
Cape Grim Air Archive
Location in Tasmania where air samples are collected

The Cape Grim Air Archive (CGAA) also "Kennaook/Cape Grim"[1] is a facility of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Tasmania, that aims to collect air samples starting from 1978. The archive is a facility of CSIRO agency. The place was chosen for sampling because air masses there are unaffected by landmasses, with wind coming from the Southern Ocean.

  1. ^ "Before it was Cape Grim, it was known as Kennaook". www.csiro.au.

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