Common Instrumentation
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Common Campbell Scientific sensors and instrumentation Campbell Scientific Manuals page Direct link to useful manuals:
Contents
Meteorological
Air Temperature / Relative Humidity Sensors: Current AT/RH Sensor, Older AT/RH Sensor Wind Speed / Wind Direction (top sensor on the met tower): RM Young Wind Monitor Wind Speed (often 1m or 3m sensor) MetOne Anemometer, Taylor Instruments WS & WD (for extreme environments) Another commonly used Wind Direction sensor: MetOne Wind Direction Snow Depth Most common, yr2007+ model Precipitation: Texas Electronics Tipping Bucket, Wyoming gage with pressure transducer
Radiation
Net Radiation Rebs Q7.1 Shortwave Radiation Eppley PSP or Eppley PSP-2 Longwave Radiation Eppley PIR, PIR Battery-less operation
Subsurface
Soil Moisture: Current Soil Moisture, Older Soil Moisture TDR Soil Moisture: TDR system Soil Temperature: Department made thermistor strings. Installed thermistors include Alpha and YSI
Water Quality
Pressure Transducers: GW Scientific 5psi, Instrumentation Northwest 9805 pH: Greenleaf(?) Electrical Conductivity: Campbell CS547a
Telecommunication
Remote Internet: Starband Radio: Freewave FGR115MB
Animal Protection
Electric Fence Cable Protection: Metal flexible conduit, Liquid-tite
Environmental Protection
Duct Seal Electrical Tape
Common Site Configurations
- 3 meter Meterological Tower
1m Net Radiation 3m Air Temperature / Relative Humidity 3m Windspeed / Wind Direction Tipping Bucket Precipitation 1m Air Temperature / Relative Humidity (optional) 1m Wind Speed (optional) Snow Depth (optional) Barometric Pressure (optional)
- 10 meter Meteorological Tower
1m Net Radiation Incoming and outgoing Shortwave Radiation Incoming and outgoing Longwave Radiation 1m Air Temperature / Relative Humidity 1m Wind Speed 3m Air Temperature / Relative Humidity 3m Wind Speed 10m Air Temperature / Relative Humidity 10m Wind Speed / Wind Direction Snow Depth (optional) Barometric Pressure (optional)
- Common Subsurface Sensors
Soil Moisture installed horizontally at 5cm, 10cm, 15cm, 25cm, 40cm, 55cm, 85cm, 100cm (usually at least two sensors per profile) Soil Surface Temperature, 0 or 0.5 cm below ground surface Soil Temperature (6 thermistors A) 2.5cm, 5cm, 10cm, 15cm, 20cm, 25cm Soil Temperature (6 thermistors B) 5cm, 15cm, 30cm, 50cm, 85cm, 100cm Soil Temperature (12 thermistor A) 2.5cm, 5cm, 10cm, 15cm, 20cm, 25cm, 35cm, 50cm, 75cm, 100cm, 125cm, 150cm Soil Temperature (12 thermistor B) 10cm, 25cm, 50cm, 75cm, 100cm, 125cm, 150cm, 200cm, 250cm, 300cm, 350cm, 400cm
Handy Code Snippets
- Campbell Scientific Sample Code
- Excel_Macros -- Handy Excel Macros useful for data processing
- Save Macros in Excel-- a brief How-To
- Julian to regular date converter (written for excel)
- Calculate Daily Averages / Sums from hourly data (written for excel)
- Freezing / Thawing Indices (written for excel)
- Grep batch file (written for DOS)
