Lab Facilities

The Geography Department's Climate Research Lab is located in Room 214 of the Callcott Building on Bull St. The lab is equipped with an array of microclimatic instrumentation including Li-cor and Eppley pyranometers, net radiometers, anemometers, soil heat flux plates, temperature and relative humidity sensors, and dataloggers. We have a suite of unix and personal computers, a microfiche reader, and software for data analysis, visualization (GrADS, VIS5D), image processing (Imagine, ENVI, and IDL), and GIS. We have a variety of data sets including conventional surface and upper-air atmospheric data, plus extensive national data holdings extending to the eighteenth and nineteenth century. We also maintain a weather station on the USC campus and are in the process of installing a radio transceiver system that will remotely download data from the weather station to the climate lab, providing real time weather data to the web.