Elaine AWS - 1/2/97. Henry Perk is in photo - Click to enlarge.

Elaine

Status: Installed

Latitude

83.111 degrees South

Longitude

174.316 degrees East

Altitude

59 meters

Model Type

AWS2B

Notes

Station Name: Station was named for the former department secretary in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Notes

29 January 2005 - Site visited. Elaine could not be located, and was declared buried and lost. An entirely new station was installed, with the new id number of 8987. The sensor boom was placed 3.66 m above the surface.

Elaine site was visited on 1/28/09 by John Cassano, 3 RPSC
personnel on a morale trip (Scott, Tanya, and Kat), and 2 Twin
Otter pilots (Josh and Randy).

The Twin Otter had difficulty locating this site.

The Twin Otter GPS coordinates at the site were 83 deg 05.84 min S
and 174 deg 17.38 min E.

UNAVCO GPS (#16414) deployed at site from 14:35 to 16:50 local time

Upon arrival the height to bottom of:

Lower delta T boom: buried
Junction box: buried
Solar panel: 28"
AWS enclosure: buried to top of enclosure
Upper boom: 61"

Work completed:
A new 7' tower section was added to this site
AWS 8987 was replaced with AWS 21357
Belfort aerovane was replaced with RM Young aerovane

New height to bottom of:

Lower delta T boom: 34"
Junction box: 55"
Solar panel: 117"
AWS enclosure: 89"
Upper boom: 148"

Voltage at AWS power plug: 14.0V (without solar panel)

The next time this site is raised we will need two battery extension
cables as there is no more slack left in the existing battery cables.

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

Field Station Report History

1986 1987 1988 1989 1993 1994

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000

Past Two Days of Weather Observations

Meteogram

Weather data archive

Archived Elaine AWS Data

Elaine AWS Climate Data

Elaine AWS - 2009 (Courtesy of John Cassano) - Click to enlarge.

Elaine AWS - 2005. Mark Seefeldt and Ryan Fogt are in the photo. Photo courtesy of Tom Parish. Click to enlarge.

Elaine AWS - 2009 (Courtesy of John Cassano) - Click to enlarge.