ITAS Automatic Weather Stations

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GFI has a set of 6 automatic weather stations composed of robust standard instrumentation. Measured parameters include pressure, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation and global radiation.

In detail, the AWS includes the following instruments:

Instrument name Function
Campbell Scientific CR1000 datalogger
RM Young 61302V trykksensor
S+S Regeltechnik HTF 100 Pt100 temperatursensor
Vaisala HMP155 temperatur- og fuktighetssensor
RM Young 5106-45 Alpine vindhastighets- og vindretningssensor
Pessl IM523 nedbørssensor
Apogee SP110 strålingssensor

The weather station configuration is fully documented in the attached manual:

File:ITAS_GFI_Manual_20160518.pdf (in Norwegian)

The weather stations are configured to acquire 10 min measurements, and transfer the logger files to GFI via mobile network once per day.

Routines are available at GFI to convert from the ASCII format files to netCDF files will full metadata information.