PARAMETERS
The Maryland Mesonet sites collect the following
parameters:- Wind speed and direction at 10 m height
- Air temperature and relative humidity at 2 m height
- Barometric pressure
- Solar radiation
- Snow depth
- Rainfall intensity and amount
- Soil moisture and soil temperature at the depths of 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 cm
(or approximately 1.97, 3.94, 7.87, 19.69, and 39.37
inches)
SAMPLING
The parameters are sampled every 3 seconds and processed
every minute by the on-site datalogger. The data is
transmitted to the Mesonet server at the University of
Maryland via cellular communication.
A database on the Mesonet server is used to display the
data on the Mesonet website and to calculate additional
parameters of importance for several sectors.