Screen air temperature measurements 2019-2020

Description

A comparison between two different thermometer enclosures was undertaken at the Reading University Atmospheric Observatory, to investigate the uncertainties associated with conventional meteorological measurements of air temperature using platinum resistance thermometers. One thermometer was contained within a conventional, naturally ventilated large MetSpec thermometer screen and another within a forced ventilated (electrically aspirated) thermometer screen (Young model 43502). Measurements were obtained between 7 November 2019 (day 188 of 2019) and 16 August 2020 (day 229 of 2020), alongside a wide range of other meteorological measurements also made at the site.

Resource Type:	Dataset
Creators:	Harrison, Giles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X and Burt, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-6546
Rights-holders:	University of Reading
Data Publisher:	University of Reading
Publication Year:	2021
Data last accessed:	18 April 2024
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.303
Metadata Record URL:	https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/303
Organisational units:	Science > School of Mathematical, Computational and Physical Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Participating Organisations:	University of Reading
Keywords:	air temperature, meteorological measurements, temperature
Rights:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Data Availability:	OPEN
Additional details Additional details Funders: No Funder Resource Language: English Collection period: From 7 November 2019 To 16 August 2020 Temporal coverage: From 7 November 2019 To 16 August 2020 Geographic coverage: Whiteknights Campus, Reading, UK Bounding Area: N. Lat. E. Long. S. Lat. W. Long. 51.4414 UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED 0.93807 Data collection method: The multiple sensors employed were sampled at 1Hz by a Campbell Scientific CR9000X data logger. Data processing and preparation activities: The 1second raw data is routinely converted to daily files of 5minute averages - the quantities required for further analysis were selected and the individual daily files combined. 20s averages were also calculated of a subset of the quantities. Depositing User: Professor Giles Harrison Date Deposited: 03 Jun 2021 15:01 Last Modified: 23 Feb 2024 05:19