Using a product called Vista Data Vision, from Vista Engineering, we have developed the capability to share incoming meterological data from many different sites in and around our office here at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Below is a brief description of each site and this list will be updated as more sites become available. This is an interactive database that will allow us to share the data with our clients and anyone who is interested. If this is your first time visiting our site, be sure to visit the help page, to familiarize yourself with the available tools. Interactive database   Fort Wainwright Met Station This met station is located at the base of Birch Hill on Fort Wainwright, AK. There are ground temperature sensors ranging in depths from 0 to 40 feet, soil moisture sensors at a range of 0- to 17-feet, air temp, relative humidity, wind speed and wind direction sensors at 1- and 10-meter heights, precipitation and radiation are being monitored. Site Name : FWW met 2004 - 2006 and FWW met 2007 MetaData     View larger image   Tanana Flats These stations are located on the Tanana Flats within Fort Wainwright. It is a popular recreation area and is dominated by wetland and Fen vegetation. 7 stations are monitoring water level, along with a 3 meter below ground profile of temperatures. One station records precipitation and soon will have a web camera viewing a stream gage for a visual inspection of water level. This will facilitate the users of the area in which access in the summer is by airboat. Site Names: Murphy Tanana Flats Sunken Slough Tanana Flats Lower Headwater Tanana Flats Willow Creek Tanana Flats Birch Island Well Degraded Island Tanana Flats Crooked Creek Tanana Flats Tanana Flats Met Station Locations Murphy UTM 06 W 0453875 7178128 Willow Creek UTM 06 W 0444818 7173413 Sunken Slough UTM 06 W 0444101 7174356 Birch Island Well UTM 06 W 0453844 7178127 Degraded Island UTM 06 W 0456912 7175714 Lower Fen Headwater UTM 06 W 0452883 7169564 Crooked Creek UTM 06 W 0439935 7169041   List of Sensors at each site   Crooked Creek site established July 25, 2006 Crooked creek     Lower Fen headwater Tanana Flats winter 2007 Murphy site Tanana Flats winter 2007 Murphy Dome Sublimation towers Mobile_Tower and Small Tower Murphy Dome are two stations which are gathering data on snow sublimation and general weather parameters. Mobile Tower is a Campbell Scientific CR5000 with a CSAT sonic 3D anemometers and Kryton hygrometer as well as sonic snow depth measurements using an SR50 and relative humidity and airtemperatures measured with vaisala HMP45C sensors. A Huskeflux heat flux plate also measures the heat flux at the snow and soil interface. Small Tower Murphy Dome is a CR10X measuring wind speeds at 1 meter and 3 meters using RM Young anemometers. Older thermisters strings are not operational at this point. Farmers Loop Met Station     Site Installed April 14th, 2007 Campbell Scientific CR1000 is measuring 2 R.M Young 05301 wind speed and wind direction. 2 Vaisala HMP45C, tipping bucket rain gauge, campbell 107 probe for ground temperature, and a SR50 sonic sounder for measuring snow depth. Table of sensor heights: Wind Speed High 4.5 meters Wind Direction High 4.5 meters Wind Speed Low 1.4 meters Wind Direction Low 1.4 meters Air Temp High 4.0 meters Relative Humidity High 4.0 meters Air Temp Low .5 meters Relative Humidity Low .5 meters Tipping Bucket Precip. 1.7 meters Sonic Sounder 1.75 meters 107_ground temp 0 meters

 

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