The instruments mounted on our 10 meter tower are intended for general atmospheric data gathering with an emphasis on fast response. Data is recorded at ten minute mean and standard deviation for all parameters. Maximum and minimum value within each period is recorded for wind sensors as well.
The data is recorded on a Campbell
Scientific CS21X datalogger, which provides signal processing and storage.
The data is transferred into a 286 PC, then written to a network disk.
A real- time display is also available for observatory operations.
At 10 minute intervals the ASCII data file is automatically converted into
HTML using a PERL script, updating the page and any active links.
Once a day, at 0000UT (14:00 Hawaii Time) the current file is archived
and a 24 hour summary is generated.
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