2011-05-20 14:57:51
press release #41
press release #41
May 20, 2011: The road to Aragats is open
Unusual heavy snowfallsat Aragats in March and April make the opening of the road really a verydifficult endeavor. For a few days several bulldozers were moving up themountain road pushing aside huge amount of snow. When 2 days ago the firstbulldozer reached the vicinity of the station (the point before “big jump”called “katok”) it refused to workanymore; another bulldozer from the station rushed for help and finished thework. Thanks to 2 Hrants: Muradyan and Piliposyan, soon the gilded youth from Yerevan, Moscow andthe USA will come to taste khash in the guest house next to the station.
The CRD engineers andscientists will also continue the exciting exploration of the natural acceleratorsin the thunderstorm clouds. The new experimental laboratory building wasrepaired last year to host new networks of particle detectors. A modernautomated weather station will be installed in Aragats to correlatemeteorological and geophysical parameters. Electrical field meters andlightning detectors will be calibrated and, afterwards, a network of fieldmeters will operate in 4 sites from Yerevan to Aragats.
The CRD engineers andscientists will also continue the exciting exploration of the natural acceleratorsin the thunderstorm clouds. The new experimental laboratory building wasrepaired last year to host new networks of particle detectors. A modernautomated weather station will be installed in Aragats to correlatemeteorological and geophysical parameters. Electrical field meters andlightning detectors will be calibrated and, afterwards, a network of fieldmeters will operate in 4 sites from Yerevan to Aragats.
Figure 1. The road is open, 20 May, 2011
Figure 2. Five meters snow walls on road to Aragats will survive till the end of June
Figure 3. Struggling with snowdrifts
Figure 4. Building of the new laboratory finally opened
Figure 5. This experimental hall will soon host new particle detectors
last 10 press releases:
- CRD employee Bagrat Mailyan defended the PhD thesis in June, 2011
- ANL complemented with two more master students
- New particle detectors installed at Aragats for precise measurement of the Thunderstorm Ground Enhancement (TGEs)
- Weather Station Vantage Pro2 is installed at Aragats
- May 20, 2011: The road to Aragats is open
- Armenian physicists discover important relations between space born and surface observations of the high energy phenomena in the thunderstorm atmospheres
- SEVAN Network expanding to India Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Aragats station on 22.11.2010
- Aragats physicists publish an important discovery about thunderstorms
- Participation of the Armenian Delegation in the 31-st All- Russian conference on cosmic rays, July 5-9, 2010, Moscow, MSU
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