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Katja Reidel checking weather station data at Baring Head

Dave Allen
Katja Reidel checking weather station data at Baring Head - NIWA's global atmospheric monitoring centre. The Baring Head Clean Air Monitoring Station which has been in operation for more than 30 years makes significant contributions to our global understanding of greenhouse gases, other trace gases and related species in air that is representative of the mid latitude southern hemisphere.