The automatic weather station at the Bouvetøya (http://www.npolar.no/en/about-us/stations-vessels/norvegia/) was installed by the Norwegian Polar Institute in January 2014. The station collects meteorological data on air temperature, air humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and more. Data resolution is hourly.
Data is available in TSV and JSON formats.
Retrieving data (examples)
- Last month (TSV) (http://api.npolar.no/weather/bouvet/?q=&fields=measured,ta,ta_min,ta_max,dd_smm,dd,ff,f_max,ff_max,uu,qa,ot,pa&format=csv&sort=-measured&limit=744)
- Last month (JSON) (http://api.npolar.no/weather/bouvet/?q=&fields-remove=_id,_id,_rev,created_by,updated_by,id,schema,created,updated&format=json&variant=array&sort=-measured&limit=744)
- June 2014 (TSV) (http://api.npolar.no/weather/bouvet/?q=&fields-remove=_id,_id,_rev,created_by,updated_by,id,schema,created,updated&format=csv&sort=-measured&limit=all&filter-measured=2014-06-01T0..2014-07-01T0) (change to any other period by adjusting the filter-measured to another time range.)
The station stopped transmitting data in March 2015.
Quality
Variables
- Air temperature [℃], mean last minute (ta)
- Air temperature [℃], minimum last minute (ta_min)
- Air temperature [℃], maximum last minute (ta_max)
- Air humidity, mean last minute (uu)
- Atmospheric pressure [hPa], mean last minute (pa)
- Wind speed, mean last 10 minute (ff)
- Wind direction, general direction last 10 minutes (dd)
- Wind speed, maximum last 10 minutes (ff_max)
- Wind direction, general wind direction last 10 minutes with highest wind speed (dd_smm)
- Wind speed, maximum 3 sec duration mean last hour (f_max)
- Sun duration, minutes last hour (ot)
- Radiation, CSD3 mean last minute (qa)
- Time [UTC] (measured)
Other variables:
- record identifier (record)
- Station identifier (station_id)
- Lowest 12VDC power supply voltage last hour
- Lowest main battery 24VDC voltage last hour
- Current in/out of main battery. Charging is positive, discharging is negative
- Main battery capacity in percent8: Main battery capacity in ampere hours. Nominal is 2000Ah
- 21-24: Relay status, (r1_status, r2_status, r3_status, r4_status)
- 25: CS215_1, Indoor temperature, mean last minute (t1)
- 26: CS215_1, Indoor humidity, mean last minute (f1)
Additional, diagnostic variables:
- record,batt_v_hoved_min,r4_status,batt_kap_prosent,batt_v_min,r1_status,r3_status,r2_status,batt_kap_nu_at,strom_i_hoved_avg
Data are retrieved at 6 hour intervals: 02:00 - 02:10 UTC 08:00 – 08:10 UTC 14:00 – 14:10 UTC 20:00 – 20:10 UTC
Weather station instruments (2014):
- Datalogger: Campbell Scientific CR1000 datalogger
- Wind sensor: Young 5103 alpine marine
- Temperature/humidity sensor: Vaisala HMP155
- Temperature/humidity sensor indoor: Campbell CS215
- Sun duration sensor: Kipp&Zonen CSD3 Sunshine Duration Sensor, mean last minute. (Discrete values: 1 is sunny, 0 is not sunny conditions.)
- Web camera: Campbell Scientific CC5MPX
- Satellite communication: Iridium Pilot
Show Keywords
GCMD Science Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
GCMD Science Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS
GCMD Science Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE