Specifications

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Table of Contents
1 General Scope of this Document ............................................................................................ 5
2 Methods................................................................................................................................... 5
2.1 Overview ............................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Personnel and Time Requirements ....................................................................................... 5
2.3 Workflow .............................................................................................................................. 6
2.4 Basic Equipment Description ............................................................................................... 7
2.4 Basic Siting Requirements .................................................................................................... 9
2.5 Level 1 Siting ...................................................................................................................... 10
2.6 Level 2 Siting ...................................................................................................................... 12
2.7 Level 3 Siting ...................................................................................................................... 12
2.8 Level 4 Siting ...................................................................................................................... 17
2.9 Ordering The Equipment .................................................................................................... 17
3 Assembly of the Climate Station .......................................................................................... 17
3.1 Testing all the instrumentation upon receipt ....................................................................... 17
3.2 Connect and setup the data logger ...................................................................................... 18
3.3 Upload the data collection program .................................................................................... 20
3.4 Connect all the sensors........................................................................................................ 21
3.5 Extract the data from the data logger .................................................................................. 22
3.6 Extracting the Data from a Memory Card .......................................................................... 23
3.7 Climate Station Pre-installation Preparations ..................................................................... 25
3.8 Tripod Installation ............................................................................................................... 25
3.9 Grounding ........................................................................................................................... 25
3.10 Installing the Data Logger and Battery ............................................................................. 25
3.11 Installing the Solar Panel .................................................................................................. 26
3.12 Connecting the Solar Panel to the Charge Regulator ........................................................ 26
3.13 Angling the Solar Panel .................................................................................................... 28
3.14 Installing the sensors ......................................................................................................... 29
3.15 Vaisala HMP45C Temperature/RH sensor ....................................................................... 29
3.16 Licor LI200X-L Solar Radiation sensor ........................................................................... 33
3.17 Rain Gauge (TB4MM-L) .................................................................................................. 34
3.18 Secure the weather resistant enclosure ............................................................................. 35
3.19 Test run the station ............................................................................................................ 36
3.20 Managing Sensors ............................................................................................................. 38
4 Running the Climate Station ................................................................................................. 39
4.1 Regular Maintenance .......................................................................................................... 39
4.2 Core area maintenance ........................................................................................................ 39
4.3 Tower maintenance ............................................................................................................. 39
4.4 Enclosure Maintenance ....................................................................................................... 40
4.5 Sensor maintenance ............................................................................................................ 40
4.6 Power systems maintenance ............................................................................................... 41
4.7 Data Retrieval ..................................................................................................................... 42
4.8 Retrieving the Data Manually from the Field ..................................................................... 42