Automatic Weather Stations - Windless Bight AWS

Automatic Weather Stations - Windless Bight Site

2006 Station Location: 77.72^oS 167.69 ^oE 40 M

Station Name: Station was named because of the little or no wind at the station.
Site status (as of 11/06) - Installed and functioning

Last Two Days of Observations:

Text Data Meteogram

Past Windless Bight Data:

Archived Windless Bight AWS Data

AWS Climate Data by Year

Windless Bight AWS - Station and repair histories:

5 November 2006 - Site visited. Tower raised.

23 January 2006 - Site visited. ADG was raised to .86 m above surface. Station was not raised. Electronics box is .79 m above surface. Top of boom is 1.83 m above surface.

5 February 2005 - Site visited. Boom was only .23 m above surface, and was raised to 2.57 m above the surface. The solar panel was half buried, and the electronics enclosure was located .56 m below the surface. The weight of the snow had also pulled out the cable. The station was raised. An acoustic depth gauge was also installed at 1.19 m above the surface.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants Nos. OPP-0537827, OPP-0338147, and OPP-0230028. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Science Foundation.