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and plugs wiring, and datalogger programming are contained in Appendix B, C and D
respectively. Fig. 3 provides an overview of the station marked as AWS 1 in Fig. 1
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Fig. 3 – Overview of the AWS and the sensors. 1. Air temperature and humidity
(aspirated); 2. SW↓, LW↓, SW↑, LW↑ radiation; 3. Wind speed and direction; 4. Snow
surface level; 5. two-axes tilt meter; 6. Iridium satellite antenna; 7. GPS receiver and
Iridium modem; 8. Air pressure; 9. Surface level (sonic ranger); 10. Thermistors string
(GEUS); 11. Hydraulic ablation meter (GEUS)
Telemetry data transmitted through the Iridium satellite system is received at GEUS as
email messages and the data can be retrieved from within GEUS intranet by a user with
appropriate permissions to access the dedicated mailbox
using the Python program
attached in Appendix E.