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Anyone know of a discussion - ideally available online - of the
preferred criteria for locating an observing site? (To be clear, recommendations for the site itself, ie the physical geography, not for instrument positioning). There's some obvious things like preferring at least a semi-rural and not a built-up location, ensuring a suitable distance from trees and other obstacles. But what I have in mind more is whether there's any official preference say for a hill-top location where there's obviously going to be better wind exposure, but which may not be very representative of the surrounding area. Maybe hilltops should be avoided? Is it best to avoid locations near to rivers, reservoirs etc, again as being potentially unrepresentative of the area as a whole? And so on. I suspect that many official sites were set up years ago in particular locations chosen for some rather arbitrary reason such as availability or convenience. But if you were to have at least some choice for locating a new site then are there any guidelines for deciding between possible sites? John Dann www.weatherstations.co.uk |
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