BENM_RADN
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Station was constructed at Lake Hoare and partially dismantled and flown to Beacon Valley. The station was reconstructed and made operational. Array ID for Beacon is 11, same as Vida. Change in program in Nov 2001 Date of Establishment: November 27, 2000 by Susan Kaspari, Thomas Nylen and Adrian GreenSampling Frequency: wind every 4 secs.; others: every 30 secs.Averaging and Output Interval: every 30 min1. array I.D. o1 2. day ok 3. time ok 4. mean air temp. @ 3 meters (C) rclow 5. mean R.H. @ 3 meters (%) ok 6. mean solar flux coming down (W/m2) ok 7. mean solar flux going up (W/m2) ok 8. mean horizontal wind speed (m/s) ok 9. resultant mean wind speed (m/s) o1 10. resultant mean wind direction (degrees from north) ok 11. standard deviation of wind direction (degrees) ok 12. maximum wind speed (m/s) ok 13. minimum wind speed (m/s) ok 14. mean P.A.R. (micromols/s/m2) divide by 200, multiply by 299.93 15. mean soil temperature @ 0 cm in soil (C) rclow 16. mean soil temperature @ 5 cm in soil (C) rclow 17. mean soil temperature @ 10 cm in soil (C) rclow = Station offline and removed from site on Dec 27, 2012 by Thomas Nylen. All input values look good. Power off at 10:50. = Station removed from service. Beacon met station, including tower and all sensors, were relocated to Lake Hoare as “New Hoare” met station.
Instrumentation:
Quality Assurance:
Variables (click to expand):
DATASET CODE
- Label:
- Definition: Code for given set of information for Beacon Valley meteorology station
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
METLOCID
- Label:
- Definition: Location code for Beacon Valley meteorology station
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
DATE_TIME
- Label:
- Definition: Date/time of sample (New Zealand DST, +13 UTC)
- Type: Date/time
- Date format: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MI
- Missing values: None specified
PAR
- Label:
- Definition: Photosynthetically active radiation
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: micromols/second/meter2
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.1
- Missing values:
- Null = None given
SWRADIN
- Label:
- Definition: Incoming shortwave radiation/solar flux
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: W/m2
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.1
- Missing values:
- Null = None given
SWRADOUT
- Label:
- Definition: Outgoing shortwave radiation/solar flux
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: W/m2
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.1
- Missing values:
- Null = None given
RADN_COMMENTS
- Label: radiation comments
- Definition: Noted comments by the investigator about the particular measure of radiation
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified