File CR10X.dat contain the raw data for the weather station located on the roof of JCMB Bulinding. Location address and OS GB coordinates: The King's Buildings West Mains Road Edinburgh, EH9 3JN GB National Grid: NT 267 704 GB +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 101 scan every minute: year, day (365), hour_min, atmospheric pressure average (mbar), rainfall tot (mm), wind speed average (m/s), wind direction average(degree), air temperature (C), relaive humidity average(%), wind speed max (m/s), dew point temperature average(c), wind chill average(C), Solar flux (kw/m2 not calibrated) second solar flux (kw/m2) battery (V) sunshine hour (h/day) sample of 101 data 101,2012,17,1151,726,0,6.75,54.27,4.667,82,6.75,1.86,.173,.087,.001,13.87,0 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + NOT after Feb-2011 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 102 scan every 24 hours (from ~00:01 to 24:00): year, day (365), hour_min, battery voltage min (V), program signature, atmospheric pressure average (mbar), atmospheric pressure max (mbar), atmospheric pressure min (mbar), rainfall total 24 hours (mm), air averge temperature (C), air temperature mag (C), air temperature min (C), wind speed max (m/s), wind speed min (m/s), relaive humidity max (%), relaive humidity min (%), Solar flux (kw/m2 ?? not calibrated), Sunshine hours (hours not working properly) sample of 102 data 102,2007,18,2400,14.07,1139,981,991,968,12.6,2.605,5.939,-.125,15,0,94.5,70.5,.005,0 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + NOT after Feb-2011 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 103 scan every hour: year, day (365), hour, atmospheric pressure average (mbar), rainfall total hour (mm), wind speed average (m/s), wind direction average (deg), wind speed max (m/s), SOlare flux average (kW/m2 ?? not clibrated) data sample 103 103,2007,18,2400,990,.6,5.44,246.2,11,0 +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Weather station log: +-------------+----------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ User From-to Date Operation +-------------+----------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Massimo Vieno 13:00-14:00 21/03/2006 - Setup the rain gauge Massimo Vieno 02:00-02:30 26/03/2006 - Set the clock forward (spring time) Massimo Vieno 15:00-15:01 29/03/2006 - Update logger software and restart logger Massimo Vieno 12:00-16:00 04/04/2006 - Add solar radiation and update the logger program and restart logger Massimo Vieno 12:00-12:43 05/04/2006 - Disconnected and moved solar radiation Massimo Vieno 12:00-12:24 06/04/2006 - Disconnected and fixed solar radiation Massimo Vieno 12:35-12:37 25/04/2006 - Setup the solar flux from 10 to 41.4 uV/W/m2 update & restart logger Massimo Vieno 13:26 03/05/2006 - False rainfall counts due to strong wind (rain gauge shaking) Massimo Vieno 10:55-10:56 04/05/2006 - Updated and restarted logger Massimo Vieno 11:00-11:40 04/05/2006 - Restart weather station visual interface Massimo Vieno 12:30-13:30 04/05/2006 - Moved rain gauge (some wrong reading) Massimo Vieno 13:30-15:00 04/05/2006 - Reboot WS plus small update visual interface Massimo Vieno 16:00 04/05/2006 - Station crashed need to reboot Massimo vieno 12:09 27/05/2006 - The solar radiation is in arbitrary units unless we do calibrate it Massimo Vieno 23:36-23:38 29/05/2006 - Setup the solar flux from 41.4 to 16.0 uV/W/m2 update&restart logger Massimo Vieno 15:30 04/07/2006 - Add Month data to the visual output Massimo Vieno 10:30-14:30 21/07/2006 - Visual interface crash and some data lost between 10 and 14 Massimo Vieno 12:00-16:45 13/09/2006 - Computer station and serial cable moved - no data lost! Massimo Vieno 12:18 24/09/2006 - Rainfall for the 20/09/06 probably wrong, strong wind shake bucket? Massimo Vieno 12:55 26/10/2006 - Probably wrong rain 26/10/2006 as strong wind gust shake the bucket! Massimo vieno 13:56 27/10/2006 - Removed rainfall from the 103,102 hourly/daily data but left on 101 Massimo Vieno 12:07 29/10/2006 - Change time (winter time) from 3:00 to 2:00 Massimo Vieno 16:17 06/11/2006 - Again some wrong rainfall, rain gauge will be moved in better? place Massimo vieno 10/11/2006 - Some data lost today, the station setup is under review this week Massimo Vieno 24/11/2006 - The rain gauge still shaking, I'll move it as soon as possible Massimo vieno 12:00-13:44 27/11/2006 - Moved the rain gauge in a'better?' location - shaking should be fixed Massimo Vieno 12/01/2007 - The rain gauge still shaking, wrong rainfall reading Massimo Vieno 15/01/2007 - wind speed connection cable snap 13/01 to 15/01 wrong wind Massimo Vieno 16/01/2007 - Wind speed fixed Massimo Vieno 15:30-16:30 03/03/2007 - wind speed cable still have problem, need to replace the cable Massimo Vieno 13:00:13:30 07/03/2007 - update the log of the WS as some field was not reported correctly Massimo Vieno 18/03/2007 - Wind speed cable snap, new cable probably middle next week Massimo Vieno 28/03/2007 - new cable wind speed installed Massimo Vieno 10/08/2007 - new AWS computer - some web down time? Massimo Vieno 03/09/2007 - the WS power was off from day 230 - 231, 229 maybe wrong data Massimo Vieno 06/11/2007 - Some double times as the solar time has been updated today Massimo Vieno 08/11/2007 - Weather Station computer upgrades data lost between 11:45 and 12:15 Massimo Vieno 13:12 26/11/2007 - wrong IP and the WS was not downloading the data Massimo Vieno 16:52 28/11/2007 - The IP has been fix and no data lost :) Massimo Vieno 22:00-13:00 25/02/2008 - Power cut due to RCD. lost data from 22:00 24/02/08 and 13 25/02/08 Massimo vieno 12:04 01/12/2008 - PC208W program had problem, some (?) duplicate data between 26/11 and 01/12 Massimo Vieno 16:00-16:30 04/09/2009 - Clean the tipping bucket. Maybe there are some false rainfall reading Massimo vieno 26/04/2010 - Hard disk of the WS computer failed ~8 days of lost data Massimo Vieno 04/05/2010 - New WS system, can now run on any unix/linux computer and new visual interface (written by Massimo Vieno) Massimo Vieno 12/08/2010 - Some IP problem with the WS desktop and 4 days (4/8 - 8/8) data lost :( Massimo Vieno 18/09/2010 - RCD cut off WS power ~1 days data lost :( Massimo Vieno 22/09/2010 - Some IP problem with the WS desktop and 11 days (22/09 - 2/10) data lost :( Massimo Vieno 26/01/2011 - Power supply/battery gone :( data lost from 01:50-19:50 -a temporary power supply is installed Massimo Vieno 04/02/2011 - the replacment power supply produce some voltage spikes now and then i.e. pressure and solar flux mostly affected Massimo Vieno 04/02/2011 - the solar radiation has been compared with a ?calibrated? sensor Massimo Vieno solar_flux = solar_flux * 1.5214 !!!!!raw data unchanged!!!! only web plots Massimo Vieno 08/02/2011 - changed the logger program: removed the 102 and 103 array only the minute average are available from now on Massimo Vieno 15/02/2011 - a new power supply and battery has been installed and the logger program updated to read an additional temperature sensor (stevenson screen) Massimo Vieno 31/08/2011 - Power cut on JCMB building. Lost data between 02:00 30/08 and 15:00 30/08 Massimo Vieno 21/09/2011 - An "unknown" cause of data lost from 16th Sep 10:25 to 18:36, the rain gauge may be the problem Massimo Vieno 28/10/2011 - An "unknown" cause of data lost around the 23th Oct Massimo Vieno 01/11/2011 - the stevenson screen temperature have been removed Massimo Vieno 17/01/2012 - A calibrated SR sensor has been added to the WS - some data lost Massimo Vieno 17/01/2012 - the rain gauge is frozen Massimo Vieno 18/01/2012 - Updated the logger program to read the new SR and scan time movet to 1 sec (was 5 sec) Rebecca 20/01/2012 - wired new SR into the WS and calibrated the old SR with the new one Massimo Vieno 20/01/2012 - rain gauge cleaned some false reading Jenny Kirkpatrick 27/01/2012 - reconnected solar meter wire and uninverted cables Massimo Vieno 27/01/2012 - rain gauge cleaned some false reading Massimo Vieno 30/01/2012 - old SR underestimate the solar flux by a factor 1.4798 Massimo Vieno 27/02/2012 - power off due to RDC for a day - 26/02 missing data Massimo Vieno 13/08/2012 - the new calibrated SR needs a new cable - lots of missing data (-6999 flag) Massimo Vieno 13/08/2012 - power off due to RDC for few days - 10-12/08 missing data Massimo Vieno 29/07/2013 - Rain gauge cleaned - 35 mm of rain recorded in on hour Massimo Vieno 02/08/2013 - new SR connected and rain sensor wire need to fixed (cable outer shell cut) Massimo Vieno 02/08/2013 - chaged the scan frequency of the logger from 1 to 5 seconds Massimo Vieno 07/03/2014 - Rain gauge cleaned - 40 mm of rain recorded in on hour Massimo Vieno 02/02/2015 - Rain in Jan 2015 too high due to very high wind Massimo Vieno 02/02/2015 - power off due to RDC. Data lost between 31Jan - 02 Feb MAssimo Vieno 02/11/2015 - The WS has been replaced with a new one Richard Essery 04/04/2016 - wind sensor failed at 16:43 - suspected bird attack Richard Essery 14/07/2016 - weather station taken down for maintenance, sunshine sensor remaining Richard Essery 23/08/2016 - weather station reinstated at 09:49, sunshine sensor removed to dry out Richard Essery 27/10/2016 - sunshine sensor reinstated at 14:14 +-------------+----------+-----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+