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Weather Data Zeuthen
Weather Data Zeuthen
The rate of cosmic particles at sea level depends on various factors. An important factor is the weather. A weather station has been installed at DESY Zeuthen to investigate the dependence of the muon rate measured with the experiments stationed at DESY Zeuthen on parameters such as temperature and atmospheric pressure.
The weather station at DESY in Zeuthen has been collecting data continuously since 2004. Its data can be analysed via Cosmic@Web. This enables not only the evaluation of the measurements carried out in Zeuthen in consideration of weather changes, but also the illustration and comparison of the different environmental conditions for DESY in Central Europe, Neumayer III in the Antarctic and the research vessel Polarstern crossing all latitudes.
Setup
The weather station is equipped with a radio clock, sensors for temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, rain, wind speed and wind direction as well as a transmitter for the data read-out.
Data Structure
Possible Student Exercises
Example Diagrams
- How can this diagram be interpreted? What findings does it offer?
At the Cosmic@Web website example diagrams can be loaded using the Session-ID Wetterdaten-Zeuthen.
This xy diagram contains three measurement series with data of several years: one of the weather station in Zeuthen, one of the SEVAN-detector on Mount Aragats and one of Neumayer Station III in Antarctica. The outside temperatures of each measurement location are displayed in temporal progress.
The exact settings can be found under the session ID Wetterdaten-Zeuthen.
