Carolyn AWS - 2005. Photo courtesy of Tom Parish. Click to enlarge.

Carolyn

Status: Installed and Functioning

Latitude

79.952 degrees South

Longitude

175.864 degrees East

Altitude

52 meters

Model Type

AWS2B

Station Repair History

31 January 2005 - Site installed. The sensor boom was placed 3.73 m above the surface.

Carolyn site was visited on 1/23/09 by John Cassano and 3 RPSC
personnel on a morale trip (Kris, Marty, and Joel).

The Twin Otter had difficulty locating this site, and the Twin Otter
GPS coordinates at the site were 79 deg 56.368 min S and 175 deg
53.049 min E.

UNAVCO GPS (#16414) deployed at site from 11AM to 12:15PM

ADG data downloaded to Toughbook laptop computer, but data
from late 2008 through present was retrieved.

Height to bottom of:

Lower T boom: at snow surface
Junction box: 28"
Solar panel: 65"
AWS enclosure: 12"
Upper boom: 99"
ADG: 25"
ADG temperature: 47"
CR10 enclosure: 40"

Decision was made to not add an additional tower section, but
all equipment was repositioned on the tower.

New height to bottom of:

Lower T boom: 25"
Junction box: 53"
Solar panel: 84"
AWS enclosure: 28"
Upper boom: 99"
ADG: 56"
ADG temperature: 74"
CR10 enclosure: 54"

After reinstalling all equipment transmission from the station
was confirmed with Telonics.

Past Two Days of Weather Observations

Meteogram

Carolyn AWS, 2009 (Courtesy of John Cassano)- Click to enlarge

Carolyn AWS, 2009 (Courtesy of John Cassano)- Click to enlarge