GW Scientific has established a meteorological station in the Old Prairie West section of Bushland, Texas. The station is located at a private residence of a GW Scientific employee. While providing near real-time weather information to interested parties, the primary purpose of the station is to provide opportunities for teaching and testing equipment and techniques useful in establishing data-collection stations for different purposes in climatologically diverse locations. Data from the station may be useful to residents of the area.

Station Information

The Bushland meteorology station is solar-powered and uses equipment from Campbell Scientific (CS) to read a variety of sensors, store and process data, and provide telemetry. Sensors are read with a Campbell Scientific CR1000X datalogger which also processes the data which are then transmitted with a Campbell Scientific RF451 radio to a base station and relayed to a GW Scientific server where they are stored and posted to this web site. Data are transmitted and posted to this web site every 15 minutes.

The station also includes a Campbell Scientific CCFC ruggedized outdoor observation and surveillance field camera to collect time-lapse images for education and scientific applications. Images are collected at scheduled times in true color format.

The station location is 35° 13' 8" N, 102° 4' 30" W, elevation of 3825 ft (1165.86 m) above mean sea level (ASL). The magnetic declination (March 2022) is 5° 57' E ± 0° 22', changing by 0° 6' W per year. Calculation is from the online NOAA Magnetic Field Calculator.

Project Contact Information

Please contact one of the following individuals for additional information about the project, or to report any data outages

Ron Paetzold (GW Scientific), rpaetzold@gwscientific.com, 979-220-6838 (cell)

Michael Lilly (GW Scientific), mlilly@gwscientific.com, 907-322-3008 (cell)

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