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A ship-borne meteorological station for ground truth measurements

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

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Title A ship-borne meteorological station for ground truth measurements
 
Creator Desai, R.G.P.
Desa, B.A.E.
 
Subject Marine Technology
Surface Temperature
Data Acquisition
Microprocessors
Wind Data
Meteorological Observations
Research Vessels
Cruises
Meteorological Data
Meteorology
Oceanographic Surveys
 
Description Oceanographic upwelling studies required ground truth measurements of meteorological parameters and sea surface temperature to be made from a research vessel which did not have the necessary facilities. A ship-borne station was therefore designed to sense and store standard meteorological parameters wich special reference to wind data. The system was based on a 16 bit microprocessor. Commercial sensors with half bridge outputs were used. All sensor outputs were converted to engineering units using best fit third order polynomials prior to storage. The system was calibrated in the laboratory and also after installation. Results obtained from the system met the required specifications. The exercise of constructing a weather station has demonstrated that with the high performance components available, and modular software construction in a Higher Level Language, it is possible to design equipment specially tailored to ones needs, rapidly and cost effectively
 
Date 1995-07-22T10:01:22Z
2017-09-29T13:48:17Z
1995-07-22T10:01:22Z
2017-09-29T13:48:17Z
1986
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier Proceedings of MDS-86: International Data Symposium, Louisiana, USA; 30 April - 2 May 1986.; 1986; 290-295
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/6149
 
Language en
 
Relation MDS-86: International Data Symposium, Louisiana, USA; 30 April - 2 May 1986
NON-SCI
 
Publisher Washington D.C.: Marine Technology Society