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Site location

Our site is located at the University of Tromsų in the northern part of Norway. Coordinates are:


          North 69d 40' 53.3" East 018d 58' 37.5"
          North 69.681472     East 18.977083
      
Google Earth placemark for the weather camera and weather station.

Hardware

Aanderaa sensors for logging weather data.

Station1 Station2 Station3

The first picture shows part of the station housing (2700), the second shows the sensor scanning unit (3010) and the last shows the sensor arm (3415) with sensors attached. Sensors listed by position (as marked on the arm) with Aanderaa model number and description:


   Position  Model  Description
        2/3  2740   Wind Speed Sensor
          4  3150   Wind Direction Sensor
          5  3145   Air temperature
          6  3445   Relative Humidity Sensor
          7  2810   Air Pressure Sensor
          8  2770   Solar Radiation Sensor
          9  3065   Gamma Ray Sensor

Axis network camera model 2420.

Software

Red Hat Linux, Apache web server, perl, mjpegtools, ImageMagick, gnuplot

History

Credits

Geir Inge Jensen
Ken-Arne Jensen
Jon Ivar Kristiansen
Espen Skoglund

and

The StormCast Project

Current version / maintainer

Jon Ivar Kristiansen

 
 
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Institutt for informatikk, det matematisk- naturvitenskapelige fakultet,
Universitetet i Tromsų, 9037 Tromsų
Editor: Head of administration Svein Tore Jensen