BARC Weather

STATION #3 Old Beltsville Airport - History and Information

• Latitude:   039� 01' 32.735" N
  
  
• Longitude: 076� 49' 29.315" W
  
  
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• History:

  This station was installed in Febuary 1995.

  This station has a ten foot tower using:

  • Datalogger logging data on 15 minute intervals.
    
    
  • Temperature and Humidity probe in a 12-gill plate radiation shield installed at a five foot elevation.
    
    
  • Wind speed and direction installed at a ten foot elevation.<
    
    
  • Pyranometer installed at a ten foot elevation.
    
    
  • Tipping Rain Gage mounted three foot off the ground on a separate pole about ten feet from the main tower.