Automatic Weather Station

The Vaisala WXT520 multi-parameter weather transmitter is a compact and lightweight multi-sensor instrument that measures the most essential weather parameters. The Meteorological parameters measured are: Air temperature, Atmospheric pressure, Relative humidity, Wind speed and direction, Precipitation.
 
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(2011) . Automatic Weather Station. https://geoportal.mountaingenius.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3f7190a2-8afa-41f4-b7ba-43a1531af2f9
 

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3f7190a2-8afa-41f4-b7ba-43a1531af2f9   XML
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Online resource
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--partners
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--partners
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
 

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Keywords

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Keywords
  • SHARE , Network , Station , High Altitude
Keywords
  • WMO , GAWSIS
Keywords
  • CEOP
Keywords ( Place )
  • Nepal , Himalaya
Keywords ( Theme )
  • meteorology , monsoon , stratospheric intrusions , mountain wind regime
Keywords ( Theme )
  • air , research , pollution , ecosystems , landscape , natural areas , climate
 
 

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Date ( Publication )
2011-04-01T19:01:00
 

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An automatic weather station (AWS) is defined as a “meteorological station at which observations are made and transmitted automatically” (WMO, 1992a). At an AWS, the instrument measurements are read out or received by a central data-acquisition unit. The collected data from the autonomous measuring devices can be processed locally at the AWS or elsewhere, for example, at the central processor of the network (WMO, 1989a). Automatic weather stations may be designed as an integrated concept of various measuring devices in combination with the data-acquisition and processing units. Such a combined system of instruments, interfaces and processing and transmission units is usually called an automated weather observing system (AWOS) or automated surface observing system (ASOS). It has become common practice to refer to such a system as an AWS, although it is not a “station” fully in line with the stated definition. Specific software routines are incorporated in the application software allowing field maintenance and calibration. In general, maintenance and calibration is conducted in an offline mode of operation, temporarily interrupting the normal station operation. A VAISALA WXT510 meteorological unit, measuring temperature, pressure, relative humidity, rain, wind intensity and direction. The wind data measurements utilise three equally spaced ultrasonic transducers that determine the wind speed and direction from the time it takes for ultrasound to travel from one transducer to the two others. The precipitation is measured with a piezoelectrical sensor that detects the impact of individual raindrops and thus infers the accumulated rainfall. For the pressure, temperature and humidity measurements, separate sensors employing high precision RC oscillators are used.
 

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Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Ev-K2-CNR
Email
evk2cnr@evk2cnr.org
Organisation name
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR
Email
p.bonasoni@isac.cnr.it
Organisation name
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR
Email
p.cristofanelli@isac.cnr.it
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
Ev-K2-CNR
Email
evk2cnr@evk2cnr.org
Organisation name
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR
Email
p.bonasoni@isac.cnr.it
Organisation name
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) - CNR
Email
p.cristofanelli@isac.cnr.it
 

Metadata information

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Organisation name
Ev-K2-CNR
Email
metadata@evk2cnr.org
Date stamp
2011-09-26T10:39:57
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
 
 

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Conformance class 1: invocable

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Limitation
 
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Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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