Environmental Change Network core measurements at Alice Holt Forest - meteorology

 

Automatic measurements are all recorded at 5 second intervals and stored as hourly summaries. Manual measurements are made in accordance with standard Meteorological Office procedures.

• Wind Speed (m s^-1)
• Wind Direction (degrees from N)
• Run of wind
• Wet bulb temperature (^oC)
• Dry Bulb temperature (^oC)
• Solar Radiation (W m^-2)
• Albedo/sky (W m^-2)
• Albedo/ground (W m^-2)
• Rainfall (mm)
• Surface wetness (minutes per hour when surface is wet)
• Soil temperature 10cm - under bare soil (^oC)
• Soil temperature 30cm - under grass (^oC)
• Soil moisture (%)