 Background: In
May 2005, a research-grade meteorological staiton was intalled just
east of Mines Park, on the CSM campus by
the ESE/HSE field camp
students. The following parameters are currently measured:
- Air temperature
- Relative Humidity
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- Precipitation
- Radiation (4 components: short-wave up and down, long-wave
up and down)
- Snow Depth
- Soil Temperature (at 5, 20, and 50 cm depths)
- Volumetric Soil Water Content (at 5 cm depth)
Currently,
the data is stored within memory resources on the met
station datalogger, but we are in the process of setting up a radio
frequency transmission system that will transmit data regularly (every
5-10 min) back to a computer in the Watershed Hydrology laboratory in
Berthoud Hall. This computer will eventually then update this web
page regularly with current and archived weather data from the
station.
How it works: Air
temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction,
precipitation, soil temperature, and radiation sensors are read every 2
seconds. Other sensors are read every 10 minutes. Average
values for these readings are output every 10 minutes. Daily
extremes in temperatures, wind speed, relative humidity, incoming
shortwave
radiation, and their times as well as total precipitation are also
recorded.
The
station was funded by the CSM student tech fee
competition, proposal submitted in Fall semester, 2005. Award was
made in January 2006. Tech fee request for proposals are posted
every semester.
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Data:
Check back regularly, we should have the
telemetry system working soon!!!
**Note that the daily summaries are reported at midnight (00:00) each
day, for the previous
day's
data.
A few teaching
opportunities with this data:
- Weather/climate conditions for the local area
- Calculation of first and second derivatives of time
series data (e.g., air temperature, radiation)
- Exercises in graphing multiple data sets (e.g., wind
speed extemes as points, with continuous 10-min. averages as a line
series)
- Basic and advanced statistical analyses
- Study of conditions/temporal trends during specific
events (upslope storms, snowmelt, etc.)
- Time series analysis
- Hydrologic data analysis
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Weather Links:
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equipment:
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your mouse over the links to the left to see an image of the
equipment listed:
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