UNMA Experience with Automatic weather Stations Milton M Waiswa mm.waiswa@unma.go.ug 0777216000

Areas of Discussion Any feedback/ Comments concerning our current installations at the Makerere Station UNMA's preference for where (the locations) WIMEA-ICT should place the 30 units being designed UNMA's preference for storage functionality (SD card / Flash memory) on the AWS sink node UNMA's preference of the frequency of AWS data summaries (per minute/5-minute/hour?) Current status of Lightning station at UNMA

Introduction Rainfall Air temperature Soil temperature Wind Direction Wind Speed Solar radiation Air Pressure

Feedback on Shelters for thermometers AWS Shelter Manual Shelter

UNMA's preference for where (the locations) WIMEA-ICT should place the 30 units being designed

Locations of UNMA Weather Stations

UNMA's preference for storage functionality (SD card / Flash memory) on the AWS sink node

Data Logger Properties The Data Logger should have a non volatile memory facility. Should keep weather data for sometime even it runs out of power Transmit data to remote servers by wireless facility, cellular data connectivity Options for physical access to data from Data logger : Flash disk/Memory Card

UNMA's preference of the frequency of AWS data summaries (per minute/5-minute/hour?)

Frequency data observations Earth networks : 1 minute interval Davis AWS: 30 minute interval ADCON AWS: 15 minutes interval Others: 60 minutes interval Finally Data is summarized in terms of a day, 10 days and Month

Current status of Lightning station at UNMA

Locations of Lightening Detectors Entebbe, Kaliro, Tororo, Sironko, Nepak, Kotido, Agago http://www.weatherbug.com

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