IIHR's Weather Station, IIHR, College of Engineering, The University of Iowa

Starting in 1989, the University of Iowa established a prototype surface meteorological station on the roof of the main IIHR building. The original station consisted of wind speed and pressure sensors, temperature and humidity sensors, and an optical rain gauge.

Since then the facility has been moved to the roof of the IIHR East Annex. IIHR has significantly upgraded the station by adding a tipping bucket rain gauge, and an optical distrometer. The original 8-bit data acquisition system has also been replaced with a LabView-based 16-bit system.

2-D Video disdrometer deployed in Brazil as part of a NASA TRMM field campaign.

Not only are the instruments collocated, but the temporal resolution is less than 20 seconds, and the station collects data continuously. The station consequently produces ultra-high resolution data sets of surface meteorological observations.

More Information

For more information about the IIHR weather station and data availability, see the references below or contact Dr. Anton Kruger.

References

Kruger A., Krajewski, W.F., Georgakakos, K.P., and Bradley, A.A., "Ultra-High Resolution Surface Meteorological Station," AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997.