The LACROS observational facility was deployed in Punta Arenas, Chile at the southern tip of South America for a long-term campaign in the framework of the field experiment Dynamics, Aerosol, Clouds and Precipitation Observations in the Pristine Environment of the Southern Ocean (DACAPO-PESO). DACAPO-PESO is a research initiative of Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany in joint collaboration with the University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile, and the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
The campaign location was in the premises of the University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile (53°S,71°W, 9 m a.s.l).
The Leipzig Aerosol and Cloud Remote Observations System (LACROS) [Bühl et al., 2012] is container-based system housing the following instruments used in ACTRIS-Cloudnet processing.
