From the Weather Lab
This
page is a gateway to a collection of informal notes on products and activities that may be of wider interest. The emphasis here is on
prompt ad-hoc additions whenever there's anything new to say on current projects, so you'll need to look past any lapses of English
or layout and allow for the fact that pages will sometimes be incomplete. Topics covered will include:
- Complete weather station installations that are unusual in some significant way or which are prototypes under test with the aim of overcoming particular operational issues;
- Investigations of new types of weather-measuring products, sensors and configurations ;
- Developments in software utilities and web page presentations;
In time these topics may extend over several web pages but for now we'll try to keep the number of pages to a minimum and only add topics and pages as and when there's something worthwhile to say.
The Great Fen weather station
The Great Fen station is an experimental installation located out in the Cambridgeshire fens near our base here. Its purpose is to assess the feasibility of running a (relatively!) low-cost automatic weather station that reports continuous live weather data at a location with no mains electricity supply and no means of data communications other than mobile phone reception. This is an ongoing project that generates a significant amount of both data and issues and so this Great Fen AWS project is described in detail on other pages, as follows:
- Overview of the Great Fen project;
- Design of the solar power supply;
- Testing and performance notes (not yet added);
New products and sensors
The Hydreon RG-11 Rain gauge
This is an unusual and inexpensive optical rain gauge sensor that we have in for testing. Further report in due course.
Inexpensive offline rainfall logger
This is a promising idea for a relatively inexpensive (ca £150) automatic rainfall logger that:
- Operates offline (is not connected to a PC except very occasionally for data downloads);
- Runs for extended periods from a small inexpensive battery;
- Is suitable for longer-term (eg 1 month or more at a time) set-and-forget rainfall logging in the field;
Again, a further report will be posted in due course;
Software utilities and website presentations
TBA