Weather stations at the Department of Earth Sciences
The Department of Earth Sciences has two weather stations operational within the city of Gothenburg: one on the roof of the building of the Department of Earth Sciences and one on the northern bridge pillar of Älvsborgsbron. The two stations have been running since the 1990s. New data is downloaded and updated 30 minutes past of every full hour.
Information about the data
Data acquisition is made using a Campbell Scientific CR10 logger at a samplig interval of 10 seconds and an averaging period of 5 minutes. Central European time CET (UTC + 1 ) is used for the measurements (i.e. daylight saving included).
Roof station - Department of Earth Sciences
The station is located on the roof of our department at 75 meter above sea level.
The station currently includes:
- Wind speed (WXT210)
- Wind direction (WXT210)
- Air temperature and humidiy (WXT210)
- Precipitation (Ahlborn)
- Incoming shortwave radiation (DeltaT, SPN1)
- Incoming longwave radiation (Kipp & Zonen, CM3)
Here you find the latest downloaded data from the roof station.
Here you can find a plot showing measurements from the last four days.
Old climate data
Here you can download monthly tab-separated textfiles from the roof station.
Bridge Station
The station is located on the northern pillar of Älvsborgsbron, 120 meter above sea level.
The station currently includes:
- Wind speed (Visala, WXT210)
- Wind direction (Visala, WXT210)
- Air temperature (Visala, WXT210)
- Precipitation (Visala, WXT210)
- Pressure (Visala, WXT210)
- Water level
Here you find the latest download data from the Bridge station.
Here you can find a plot showing measurements from the last four days.
Old data
Here you can download monthly tab-separated textfiles from the bridge station.
The bridge station had a major re-make in early 2013. Consequenlty, the format of the text files also changed.
For more information, see our external page Weather stations at the Department of Earth Sciences.
