Any tips on setting up a Campbell weather station?
The following information comes from weather station guru Warwick Henshall at HortResearch. Thanks Warwick for these notes on how you set up the HortResearch weather stations! (1) For temp probes housed in a small screen, we keep a 10-min running average, and use that for max & min air temps. This is to make max/min approximate a Stevenson screen (longer time constant than small metal or plastic screen). (2) Our logger time stays on NZST. During daylight savings, the 9am output is at 0800 NZST; otherwise at 0900. Note that when you create a MetWatch file you are asked about when daylight saving starts and finishes; and if the weather station’s time is changed for daylight saving. (3) Output arrays are: Array 20 hourly: Array ID, Day, Time(Hour-Min), DB Temp(Av), WB Temp(Avg) ,Wetness(Avg) ,Rainfall(Total), then anything else. At a few sites there is no DB temp. Array 30 ‘9 am’: Array ID, Day, Time(Hour-Min), MinTemp, MaxTemp, Rain(Total), then anything else such as Grass Min, Wind Run
