Data for Milwaukee Meteorological Station:

LATITUDE:  43-02-44 N
LONGITUDE: 87-52-44 W
Site online: 20 Nov 2000

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

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

Site Elevation: 176.0 m above mean sea level
Anemometer Height: 12.2 m above site elevation
Air Temp Height: 9.1 m above site elevation


Wind Sensor:  R.M. Young model 5103 Wind monitor mounted on the structure railing.

Temperature Sensor:  CSI model 107 thermistor mounted in a naturally aspirated gill  type
radiation shield mounted on the structure railing.

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 an  11 watt
Unisolar PV panel operating through a Solar Electric CREG5 regulator. This  battery will
provide a day of stand alone operation.

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, Milwaukee=1
Year
Julian Day
Time, GMT
Voltage measured at CR10X
Voltage, PV panel.
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.

-99 = missing/bad data

John Lane
USDOC-NOAA-GLERL
Marine Instrumentation Laboratory
5/11/01