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The Goodwin Creek SURFRAD station is located on rural pasture land about twenty miles west of Oxford, Mississippi.

Goodwin Creek, Mississippi Latitude: 34.25 degrees North Longitude: 89.87 degrees West Elevation: 98 meters Time Zone: Local Time + 6 hours = UTC Installed: December 1994 SURFRAD data from the Goodwin Creek site.

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  The SURFRAD station at the Goodwin Creek watershed, outside of Batesville, Mississippi. The site is surrounded by a barbed wire fence with gate access. From left to right, you can see the SURFRAD solar tracker, main instrument platform, and instrument tower, followed by a radio tower, control shed and flux system maintained by the site operators, and finally the Total Sky Imager at the far right.
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  The downwelling instruments on the main platform at Goodwin Creek. Shown, from left to right, are: Yankee Environmental Systems (YES) MFRSR, LI-COR Photosynthetically Active Radiometer (PAR), Yankee UVB-1 Ultraviolet Pyranometer, ventilated Eppley pyrgeometer, and ventilated Spectrosun pyranometer.
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  The SURFRAD instruments on the new SCI-TEC solar tracker, just south of the instrument platform. On top of the tracker is a ventilated and shaded Spectrosun pyranometer measuring diffuse solar irradiance. Mounted on the far side of the tracker is an Eppley Normal Incidence Pyranometer.
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  The SURFRAD ten-meter tower, located approximately 30 m north of the main instrument platform. The tower contains an RM Young wind monitor, a Vaisala temperature and relative humidity sensor, and an Eppley pyrgeometer and a Spectrosun pyranometer for measuring upwelling iinfrared and solar radiation, respectively.
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  A close-up of the tower-mounted instruments.
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  Gary Hodges installing the Total Sky Imager at Goodwin Creek, September, 1999.
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  The Yankee Environmental Systems Total Sky Imager (TSI), installed at Goodwin Creek in September 1999. The unit had to be mounted on a platform high enough to avoid interference from the fence posts. Guy wires stabilize the platform, and hologram ribbon underneath the TSI keeps birds away.
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  John Augustine wondering where to start on an instrument swapout trip to Goodwin Creek, June, 1999.
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  Our newest neighbors at the Goodwin Creek SurfRad site, September, 1999.