Weather/Puerto Rico/Instruments/VLBP4
At a cooperative observer's station
COOP network, identified by the register
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Villalba 3N - Toro Negro ForestReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Drawn as the kind of place it stands at. 29 instruments in Puerto Rico stand at one.
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Snow on the ground
Station report
Drawn from the register, in the manner of the Field Book, and opened beside the plates that explain each part of it.
At 2,970 ft above sea level, 10 per cent of the atmosphere's air lies below the station. The standard atmosphere puts the pressure there at 26.85 inHg and the temperature at 48.4 F.
FB-ENG-001, Fig. AAtmosphere in sectionThe whole standard atmosphere this station stands in, from the ground to the edge of space.
FB-ENG-003, Fig. CHydrostatic balanceWhy a barometer 2,970 ft up reads less: it weighs only the air above it.
On Oct 11 the noon sun stands 65 degrees above the horizon at 18.17 N, and the day is 11 h 41 min long. Level ground there takes 90 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.
FB-ENG-007, Fig. ARadiation budgetWhere the sunlight that reaches this ground goes once it arrives.
A cooperative observer's station, 2,970 ft above sea level. Its sensors, as its network builds them.
FB-INS-001, Fig. AWhat an instrument isA surface station taken apart: what each of these sensors is.
FB-INS-009, Fig. AStevenson screen and sitingWhy the thermometer sits in a shield 5 ft over grass.
FB-INS-003, Fig. BPersonal weather stationWhere a rain gauge must stand, and the rain shadow of a tree.
The instrumentWhat an instrument is FB-INS-001Personal weather station FB-INS-003Stevenson screen and siting FB-INS-009
What it seesHydrostatic balance FB-ENG-003Radiation budget FB-ENG-007Nor'easter FB-EVT-066Blizzard FB-EVT-081Ice storm FB-EVT-084Heat wave and heat dome FB-EVT-130Snowpack strata FB-WAT-031