10.25573/data.10059461.v5
Steven Paton
Steve
Paton
Monthly summary_AVA Tower
The Smithsonian Institution
2020
environmental monitoring
Meteorology
temperature
Relative humidity
solar radiation
pyranometer
wind speed
wind direction
Environmental Monitoring
2020-05-11 18:48:53
Dataset
https://smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Monthly_summary_AVA_Tower/10059461
<div>Barro Colorado Island, AVA tower.</div><div>Two Sensors: North and South</div><div><br></div><div>Parameters: air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and
direction, precipitation, solar radiation
(pyranometer, photosynthetically active radiation)</div><div><br></div><div>Established in Mar, 2011 as part of the ForestGEO Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) project.<br>The original tower was Located near the center of the island at the north west corner of the 50ha plot (9.1568°, -79.8486°).<br>In 2018 this tower was struck by a tree fall and rendered unusable.<br>In Feb. 2019 a new 45m tower was build close by (9.1568°, -79.8486°). <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>