J.S.
Cumulus
Fil e Daniel,
Em Ingles agora..
I am not trying to be arrogant, so excuse me for my direct wording...
The topography, the size of the trees or whether or not the station is in accordance with the reghion simply does not matter. The standards are very clear: no trees allowed in a radius of 100 meters. Period. With a very good reason btw. The trees introduce all kinds of anomalities, in this case I wonder if even sunshinehours are measured correctly, something I have never witnessed on a official station in my life BTW. And I have seen a few of them.
Now 15 meters in a circle in a pine forest is really not even close. This open area surrounded by trees introduces a artificial valley effect. Resulting in cooler nights allround and warmer days (in low wind situations). First of all: the air will be more still than when it would have been an area according to WMo standards. So there is an easier build up of cold and warm layers (nights and days resp). second point is that the air will inevitably be more still, which means that when solar irradiation reaches 800 to 1000 W/m2, selfheating of the sensorshield rapidly picks up giving way to (large) errors.
That is why buildings and trees are not allowed within 100 meters and outside of this radius only when they do not reach 1/10 of the distance to the station. As I already said: a 15 meter high tree must be outside a 150 meter radius. Even one tree....Shrubs are allowed only starting from 100 meters.
This standards have been set because of research about effects of trees, shrubs and buildings.
In Holland, there also many stations which do no comply to WMO standards. I have pictures of two (out of three) in my province. Vlissingen KNMI is totally wrong, too much to talk about. Westdorpe KNMI has a cornfield during the three summer motnhs of 2+ meters height at 4 meters from the sensorshields over a lentgh of hundreds of meters... I siply went there because I found the readings suspicious, it was so clear....I knew it had to do with crops...I have taken a lot of pictures if this...
This makes your initiative all the more interesting BTW!
As far as I can tell, the station of Herdade dos Lameiroes (www.cotr.pt) seems to be in better accordance than nearby Amareleja. At least, the meteorlogist told me it measures according to WMO standards and the pictures seem to indicate this, but still some trees nearby there also...
Em Ingles agora..
I am not trying to be arrogant, so excuse me for my direct wording...
The topography, the size of the trees or whether or not the station is in accordance with the reghion simply does not matter. The standards are very clear: no trees allowed in a radius of 100 meters. Period. With a very good reason btw. The trees introduce all kinds of anomalities, in this case I wonder if even sunshinehours are measured correctly, something I have never witnessed on a official station in my life BTW. And I have seen a few of them.
Now 15 meters in a circle in a pine forest is really not even close. This open area surrounded by trees introduces a artificial valley effect. Resulting in cooler nights allround and warmer days (in low wind situations). First of all: the air will be more still than when it would have been an area according to WMo standards. So there is an easier build up of cold and warm layers (nights and days resp). second point is that the air will inevitably be more still, which means that when solar irradiation reaches 800 to 1000 W/m2, selfheating of the sensorshield rapidly picks up giving way to (large) errors.
That is why buildings and trees are not allowed within 100 meters and outside of this radius only when they do not reach 1/10 of the distance to the station. As I already said: a 15 meter high tree must be outside a 150 meter radius. Even one tree....Shrubs are allowed only starting from 100 meters.
This standards have been set because of research about effects of trees, shrubs and buildings.
In Holland, there also many stations which do no comply to WMO standards. I have pictures of two (out of three) in my province. Vlissingen KNMI is totally wrong, too much to talk about. Westdorpe KNMI has a cornfield during the three summer motnhs of 2+ meters height at 4 meters from the sensorshields over a lentgh of hundreds of meters... I siply went there because I found the readings suspicious, it was so clear....I knew it had to do with crops...I have taken a lot of pictures if this...
This makes your initiative all the more interesting BTW!
As far as I can tell, the station of Herdade dos Lameiroes (www.cotr.pt) seems to be in better accordance than nearby Amareleja. At least, the meteorlogist told me it measures according to WMO standards and the pictures seem to indicate this, but still some trees nearby there also...