Energy Studies Weather Station

• About the weather station (purpose, location and related links)
• About air temperature and relative humidity
• About wind speed, air pressure and rain
• About solar energy

Click the image to the left to launch a tabbed display showing measurements of the local weather conditions and a web-cam image, recorded and updated every five minutes. The weather station is located on the roof of the Science III Building, University of Otago Campus, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Science III Building, Home to the Department of Physics and the Energy Studies Programme. The location of the weather station is circled in red.

Notes

If you would like to bookmark the weather station display directly without coming to this page, use this URL: http:/www.physics.otago.ac.nz/eman/weather_station/weather_station.html

The weather station window is set to automatically refresh every five minutes in order for the latest weather data to be displayed.

The time given on the display is New Zealand Standard Time (NZST).

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Craig Rodger and Brent Russell of the Department of Physics for their programing and technical support. Thanks also to David Little and Glen Lyon of Campbell Scientific for software support and to Thilo Hardt for his excellent 'Lemcam' webcam program.

Pictured Right: University of Otago Registry Building with the webcam enclosure in the foreground.

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