CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE)
After 17 years of continuous operation, the CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE) at Chesapeake Light Station, has been indefinitely suspended due to structural concerns. In September 2016 Chesapeake Light was sold in GSA auction to a private investment consortium. All pertinent equipment as well as most instrumentation, power and communication hardware has been removed as […] The post CERES…
The CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE) was an atmospheric science project that ran for 17 years at Chesapeake Light Station, located 25 km east of Virginia near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The site was chosen for its excellent validation capabilities for space-borne retrievals of cloud and aerosol microphysics. COVE's instrumentation included the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) instrument suite, an AERONET sunphotometer, MFRSRs, a micropulse lidar, meteorological sensors, and more.
The project ceased operations in December 2016 due to structural concerns after being sold in a GSA auction to a private investment consortium in September 2016.
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