Data for Kenosha Meteorological Station:

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NOTICE, Oct 30, 2007: Operations and maintenance of the Kenosha Met Station have 
been formally transferred to the NWS.  See www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/WestGL.shtml.
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LATITUDE:  42-35-20 N
LONGITUDE: 87-48-31 W
Site online: 27 Apr 2001

Special thanks to the men and women of the USCG Group Milwaukee and the USCG Aids to
Navigation Team Kenosha for their technical and financial support  of this project.

Location: On the Kenosha light located on the end of the north harbor inlet pier.  

Site Elevation: 176.0 m above mean sea level
Anemometer Height: 19.5 m above site elevation
Air Temp Height: 16.2 m above site elevation


Wind Sensor:  R.M. Young model 5103 Wind monitor mounted 14 feet above the light  house
catwalk.

Temperature Sensor:  CSI model 107 thermistor mounted in a naturally aspirated gill  type
radiation shield mounted about 3 feet above the light house catwalk.

Processor:  CSI model CR10X.  This units samples the sensors every 5 seconds and is  set to
an averaging interval of 5 minutes.

Power:  The system is run from a 12A/hr gel cell battery which is maintained with a  Yuasa
charger from the available AC line.  This system will provide a day of operation  should  AC
power go down.

Scheme:  The CR10X is connected to a Campbell Scientific COM 100 communications package. This
consists of a modem and a Motorola analog cellular telephone module.   The system  is
interrogated by a PC from Ann Arbor running the CSI PC208W software and a modem every 
hour.   The data set consists of three 5 minute data ensembles.  Averaging and  interrogation
intervals and the system program are adjustable remotely.  The system  data rate is set to
1200 baud.

Data Line: The data line is comma delimited and consists of the following in order  from left
to right.

Station ID, Kenosha=2
Year
Julian Day
Time, GMT
Voltage measured at CR10X
Voltage, battery charger
Panel (equipment compartment) Temperature, Deg C
Average air temperature, Deg C
Air temperature standard deviation, Deg C
Wind Speed minimum, m/s
Wind Speed maximum, m/s
Wind Speed, standard deviation m/s
Wind Speed, scalar average, m/s
Wind Direction, unit vector average, degrees from (0=north, 90=east)
Wind Direction, standard deviation, degrees.
John Lane
USDOC-NOAA-GLERL
Marine Instrumentation Laboratory
5/11/01