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Weather Station Davis Vantage ProII |
The Weather Station davis vantage
Pro II is considered as one of the most prestigious weather
stations at the market.
Davis
Vantage Pro II consists of a console unit with LCD display
for displaying data received from various external sensors
up: anemometer, wind speed, rain, thermo-hygrometer
sensor, solar radiation, ultraviolet radiation and soil
moisture/temperature station.
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Descriptions of the Sensors
- Thermometer (measured 0,1º C) every 10 seconds
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Hygrometer (measured 1,0%) every 50 seconds
- Barometer (measured 0,1 hPa) every 10
seconds
- Pluviòmetro
(measured 0,2mm) every 20 seconds
- Anemometer (measured 0,1 km) every 2 sec.
- Solar Radiation (measured 1,0
W/m2) every sec.
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One of
the most important sensors of the weather station is
the rainfall sensor, which, different to other,
Davis Vantage collects data in 0,2mm.
As you can see in the
picture inside the rain gauge consists join buckets
that measure the amount of precipitation in 0,2mm,
once this measure has exceded the beam empty
the water and stards to refill the other pot. With
this procedure the station also makes the
calculation of the intensity of rainfall per hour.
Example:
10 turns in 1 minute = 2,0 mm
2,0 mm x 60 minutes = 120,0 mm/hour
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El sensor
Termohigrómetro principal se encuentra instalado a 1,50
metros
según la normativa de la organización meteorológica
mundial (O.M.M.), tambien se mide la temperatura en
la terraza terrat donde se encuentra la davis (a 7 metros de altura).
Meteoportocolom dispone tambien de sensores de
Temperatura y Humidad del suelo, donde se mide tanto
la temperatura como la humidad a 15 cm y a 35 cm
debajo tierra.
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The davis Vantage pro II, which
has Meteoportocolom, is the version "Cabled" ,
therefore all sensors outside of the weather station
ae connected by cable to the console.
The
console is connected to the PC via a datalogger for
data storage and offloading (although the station is
not connected to the computer the datalogger has a
caapacity os storing of the station dta up to about
25 days). this datalogger has a conection to port
serial (RS-232).
The softwares we
use are Weatherlink, Graphweather and Weatherdisplay,
each one has an important mission, the Weatherlink
the main driver od the station i sends data to "Meteofelanitx"
and "Meteoclimatic" the Graphweather used for data
to "Meteoportocolom" and Weatherdisplay is also in
charge od sending Meteoportocolom data in real time
(every 3 seconds) I also to different pages with an
international character.
Console
Photo of the day 28/09/2009, the day that
Meteoportocolom recorded 102,8mm (in 1 day) and a
peak intensity of 256,0mm/hour! |
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The station is located at the
top of Portocolom (Urbanización Lafe), 36 meters
above sea level and 10 meters above the street level
and the wind sensor (anemometer and wind vane) are completely clear, which makes their
data and wind direction entirely reliable.
The coordinates is:
Latitude:. 39º 24" 57´ N
Longitude: 03º 14" 50´ E
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