Dataset: Friday Harbor Labs - Weather Station Data
Deployment: FHL_WeatherStation

Friday Harbor Labs - Weather Station Data

Principal Investigator:

Emily Carrington (University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, FHL)

Contact:

Emily Carrington (University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, FHL)

Technician:

Sarah Grace Leuchtenberger (University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, FHL)

Emily A. Roberts (University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, FHL)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Stephen R. Gegg (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

The effects of temperature on ecological processes in a rocky intertidal community: a mechanistic approach (Intertidal Temp Effects)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version:

04 March 2014

Version Date:

2014-03-04

Data URL:

https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/491269/data

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Description

Data are collected at the Friday Harbor Laboratories (FHL) Weather Station University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories, Friday Harbor WA, Cantilever Point (Latitude = 48.5461 North; Longitude = -123.007 East).

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Data Gaps: all data streams
- June 20, 2007 to October 28, 2007: Lost data/failure to log data.
- November 25, 2009 to December 2, 2010: Weather station repaired after electrical storm.
- July 13, 2012 to July 27, 2012: Weather station repaired after electrical storm.

Data Gaps: Total Radiation
There are several gaps in the Total Radiometer data stream, due to instrument maintenance issues. These gaps are all filled with "nd":
- 2006 to August, 24 2009 23:59 software issue (calculation error)
- May 21, 2014 14:45 to May 22, 2014 9:45
- December 29, 2015 5:45 to January 3, 2016 12:15
- October 6, 2016 onward due to maintenance difficulties, the Total Radiometer was removed permanently.

Data calibration: Solar Radiation_PAR
The Solar Radiation_PAR meter drifted out of calibration from 2013 to 2021, evidenced by a steady decline in slope when the data were plotted against Solar Radiation_Energy. Rad_PAR were adjusted in these years using an annual correction factor that restored the expected linear relationship between Rad_PAR and Rad_Energy (2.112, the mean of slopes from 2006-2012). The correction factor for each year is a follows: 2013: 1.189, 2014: 1.235, 2015: 1.252, 2016: 1.254, 2017: 1.320, 2018: 1.336, 2019: 1.406, 2020: 1.366, 2021: 1.364.

Data availability:
These data are live streamed to the FHL website: http://wx.fhl.washington.edu/vdv/VV_Frame.php
These data are also archived in near real-time at NANOOS (http://nvs.nanoos.org/Explorer) as asset FHL_friharbor1.

The data available here at BCO-DMO differ from the above in that they are presented in yearly blocks and have been fully verified.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

BCO-DMO Processing Notes:
Version 1:
- Generated from original files contributed by Emily Carrington and Emily Roberts;
- Approx Lat/Lon of FHL Weather Station appended to enable data discovery in MapServer;
- Time Stamp split into separate Date and Time fields;
- Date formatted as YYYYMMDD;
- Time formatted as hhmmss;
- Parameter names were edited to conform to BCO-DMO naming conventions.

Version 2; updated on 2017-08-30:
- Additional data from 2015-01-01 through 2017-06-30 submitted by Emily Carrington;
- Time Stamp split into separate Date and Time fields;
- Date formatted as YYYYMMDD;
- Time formatted as hhmmss;
- Parameter names were edited to conform to BCO-DMO naming conventions;
- All "NaN" and "NAN" values were converted to "nd" to be compliant with the BCO-DMO system.

Version 3; updated on 2022-08-16:
- Generated from original files contributed by Emily Carrington and Grace Leuchtenberger;
- replaced #N/A" and "#VALUE!" with "nd" (no data);
- concatenated all files (one per year) into one dataset;
- converted all Time values to hhmmss format;
- added ISO8601 date-time fields (local and UTC);
- added Platform_Id, Lat, and Lon to the data;
- renamed fields to comply with BCO-DMO naming conventions.

More information about this dataset deployment

Funding

Award Number	Funding Source
OCE-0824903	NSF Division of Ocean Sciences

Instruments

Automated Weather Station

Supplied Name: Friday Harbor Labs - Weather Station

Supplied Description:

FHL Weather Station
Contact: Emily Carrington (ecarring@uw.edu)
University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories
Friday Harbor WA, Cantilever Point
Lat = 48.5461 Long = -123.007

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Automated Weather Station

Acronym: AWS

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/

Generic Description:

Land-based AWS systems are designed to record meteorological information.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Platform_ID	Name of data collection platform/site	unitless	platform
Lat	Latitude position of platform (South is negative)	degrees North	lat
Lon	Longitude position of platform (West is negative)	degrees East	lon
Year	4-digit year of data collection	unitless	year
ISO_DateTime_UTC	Date and time (UTC) in ISO8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ	unitless	ISO_DateTime_UTC
ISO_DateTime_PST	Date and time (local time zone of PST) in ISO8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss	unitless	ISO_DateTime_Local
Date_PST	Date (local time zone of PST) in format YYYYMMDD	unitless	date
Time_PST	Time (local time zone of PST) in format hhmmss	unitless	time
Air_Temp	Air Temperature; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	degrees Celsius	temp_air
RH	Relative humidity; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	percent (%)	humidity
Rad_PAR	Solar Radiation_PAR; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	micromoles per square meter per second (?mol m-2 s-1)	PAR
Rad_Energy	Solar Radiation_Energy; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	watts per square meter (W m-2)	no_bcodmo_term
Rad_tot	Total Radiation (solar + sky); averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds. Note: Total Radiation Energy parameter data are not good until August 25th 2009 (values before then are "nd"); caused by software issue (calculation error)	watts per square meter (W m-2)	no_bcodmo_term
Rain	Rainfall; total over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	millimeters (mm)	precip_level
Wind_speed	Wind Speed; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	meters per second (m s-1)	wind_speed
Wind_direction	Wind direction; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	degrees (relative to true N)	wind_dir
Wind_Chill	Wind Chill; averaged over 15 minutes; sampled every 30 seconds	degrees Celsius	no_bcodmo_term

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