Early 2015, the University of Santiago, in close collaboration with the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), deployed its second Transportable Antarctic Research Platform (TARP-02) on King George Island (62° 12’ S; 58° 57’ W, Antarctic Peninsula). The roughly 10 Tons platform has just become operational supporting state-of-the-art spectral measurements aimed at the retrieval of the total ozone column (TOC), the aerosol optical depth (AOD), the precipitable water (PW), and the cloud modification factor (CMF). These parameters are expected to change in the upcoming decades as a consequence of both the ozone layer recovery and climate change (CC).The team in charge of the TARP deployment was led by Raul R. Cordero from USACH and included three researchers from the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC). The IVIC team was led by Juan A. Alfonso.
The TARP-02 joined the TARP-01 deployed in 2013.
