Weather station

About: Weather station is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1789 publications have been published within this topic receiving 42864 citations. The topic is also known as: meteorological station & meteorological observation post.

The relationship of weather with daily physical activity and the time spent out of home in older adults from Germany – the ActiFE study

Abstract: There is a need for a comprehensive evaluation of the associations between varieties of weather conditions on the time spent out-of-home (TOH) and on walking duration (WD) among older adults. We aim to investigate the extent to which various weather parameters (temperature, solar radiation, sunshine duration, humidity, windspeed, and rain) determine daily WD the TOH in older adults.The ActiFE (Activity and Function in Older People in Ulm) study is a prospective study of participants aged 65 years or older who wore an accelerometer and kept a movement diary in up to three temporally separated waves from 2009 to 2018 for a duration up to seven days per wave (up to three weeks in summary). We used weather data from a weather station near the participants' homes. Age-adjusted and gender-stratified generalized mixed models were used to predict WD and TOH (with 95% confidence interval (CI)) within and between weather categories. Generalized additive models were computed for the single predictions at the weather quartile boundaries. Cubic splines (with 95% pointwise confidence bands (CB)) visualized the continuous course of the weather values.Higher temperatures, solar radiation and more hours of sunshine, led to an increase in WD and TOH, while higher precipitation, humidities and windspeeds led to a decrease. Women had in general higher WD and TOH times than men.Our data suggest that weather parameters have a considerable influence on PA and TOH. Future analyses and interpretation of PA data should therefore account for weather parameters.

Weather Monitoring Setup and Analysis of Air, Soil and Leaf Parameters

Abstract: The paper presents an extended set of weather related parameters that started to be continuously monitored in order to allow the evaluation of the local potential of renewable energies and also their impact on the fruits growing process. A complex web based monitoring system, including wireless weather stations and soil & leaf stations, was designed and realised in order to create a useful database of many parameters. The paper presents some correlations that were highlighted between air soil and leaf parameters. The first results obtained, are encouraging and justify extended analysis.

A Cloud Computing Based Framework for Storage and Processing of Meteorological Data

Abstract: This document shows an analysis of emerging technology for the recovery of meteorological data and its cost-benefit using GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) data transfer in automatic meteorological stations to improve the monitoring and the prediction of the atmosphere and inland water behavior in Ecuador. In different areas of study comparisons between data or generated registers coming from Automatic Weather Station (AWS) and Conventional Weather Station (CWS) have been made. Therefore, here the authors mainly underline the importance of storing meteorological information using cloud computing. Among the benefits of cloud computing there are high data availability access and high efficiency in technical/scientific studies at lower cost due to the decrease of local investment in technological infrastructure, upgrades, maintenance of equipment and applications.

Irrigation demand modelling using the UKCP09 weather generator: lessons learned

Abstract: The determination of irrigation demand is typically based on crop modelling using a long historic record of local daily weather data However, there are rarely adequate weather station records near to given sites; often any local records cover a limited number of years, are incomplete, costly or are of poor quality This paper examines whether version 1 of the UKCP09 weather generator can provide a simpler and effective method of calculating irrigation demand with sufficient accuracy for regulatory and design purposes The irrigation demands at seven sites distributed around England were modelled using the UKCP09 baseline climatology and compared with results modelled using daily observed weather records For the design dry year used for irrigation planning, the weather generator replicated the observed conditions with reasonable accuracy The weather generator was however less successful at replicating extreme dry years These results are encouraging but also provide a note of caution for the use of these generated datasets for studying current irrigation demand and by implication for modelling future needs under climate change The study also demonstrated a simple sub-sampling approach for reducing the processing demands if using the dataset in more complex models, though this would not remove any underlying error

Coastal dispersion conditions near the southwestern tip of Africa: a system for evaluation and prediction.

Abstract: A system is presented to monitor the local meteorology and to predict the dispersion of effluents from a nuclear power station situated on the coast near the southwestern tip of Africa. A computerized weather station forms the basis of the system and provides spatial definition of wind profiles and dispersion indices near the coastal interface by interpolation between a sensor array. The meteorological system measures winds, temperature structure and turbulence indices at the 10-m level at five remote points and in the 10- to 80-m layer at the main coastal station. To provide a system for evaluation and prediction of effluent trajectories, a real-time three-dimensional puff dispersion model was developed. The meteorology input to the model is automatically verified and updated at 15-min intervals. Model results are presented under complex weather conditions to show how time and space changes in the local wind field are handled. To assist weather forecasters supporting the nuclear emergency plan, a simple tabular display enables a view of the dispersion climatology over 24-h (coastal) and 7-d (synoptic) cycles. These results are presented to contrast the different scales of circulation and for comparison within the nuclear industry to assist health physicists in deciding appropriate levels ofmore » meteorological support for emergency plans.« less