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Title: CROCUS Low Cost All-in-One Weather Station AMB-002 Data Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site

Abstract

The Ambient Weather WS-2902D (AMB) is a low cost weather station that has become very useful for filling data gaps in harder to deploy locations. These low cost weather stations collect 13 second data, which is averaged to a five minute data output available to users through an API key. The data files contain measurements for precipitation, temperature, wind chill/heat index, relative humidity, dew point, UV index, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction, wind gust, and with an external particulate matter 2.5 (PM 2.5) sensor. Having all of these measurements in one condense system allows for fast deploying and dense network capabilities. Three of the AMB weather stations were deployed at the Argonne Testbed for Multiscale Observational Science (ATMOS), a 20-acre prairie site at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. The instruments are denoted by their three digit identifier (CMS-AMB-xxx) format. The data is presented as daily NetCDF (.nc) files, each containing approximately 24 hours of observations. Files follow the naming convention of: the project (CROCUS), location (atmos), instrument name (CMS-AMB-002), data level (raw, a1), and date (year, month, day). The NetCDF format can be accessed using common scientific software such as Python using xarray, netCDF4 or ACT-DOE.

Authors:
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  1. Argonne National Laboratory
  2. Texas Tech University
  3. Central Michigan University
  4. Florida State University
Publication Date:
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Research Org.:
Community Research on Climate and Urban Science Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (CROCUS UIFL)
Sponsoring Org.:
U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS; EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION; Low Cost Weather Station
OSTI Identifier:
3008394
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15485/3008394

Citation Formats

Tuftedal, Matthew, Grover, Maxwell, Isenberger, Cassandra, Couch, David, O'Brien, Joseph, Zoerner, Magdelyn, Rinke, Taylor, and Collis, Scott. CROCUS Low Cost All-in-One Weather Station AMB-002 Data Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site. United States: N. p., 2025. Web. doi:10.15485/3008394.
Tuftedal, Matthew, Grover, Maxwell, Isenberger, Cassandra, Couch, David, O'Brien, Joseph, Zoerner, Magdelyn, Rinke, Taylor, & Collis, Scott. CROCUS Low Cost All-in-One Weather Station AMB-002 Data Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/3008394
Tuftedal, Matthew, Grover, Maxwell, Isenberger, Cassandra, Couch, David, O'Brien, Joseph, Zoerner, Magdelyn, Rinke, Taylor, and Collis, Scott. 2025. "CROCUS Low Cost All-in-One Weather Station AMB-002 Data Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/3008394. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/3008394. Pub date:Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025
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title = {CROCUS Low Cost All-in-One Weather Station AMB-002 Data Argonne National Laboratory Prairie Site},
author = {Tuftedal, Matthew and Grover, Maxwell and Isenberger, Cassandra and Couch, David and O'Brien, Joseph and Zoerner, Magdelyn and Rinke, Taylor and Collis, Scott},
abstractNote = {The Ambient Weather WS-2902D (AMB) is a low cost weather station that has become very useful for filling data gaps in harder to deploy locations. These low cost weather stations collect 13 second data, which is averaged to a five minute data output available to users through an API key. The data files contain measurements for precipitation, temperature, wind chill/heat index, relative humidity, dew point, UV index, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction, wind gust, and with an external particulate matter 2.5 (PM 2.5) sensor. Having all of these measurements in one condense system allows for fast deploying and dense network capabilities. Three of the AMB weather stations were deployed at the Argonne Testbed for Multiscale Observational Science (ATMOS), a 20-acre prairie site at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois. The instruments are denoted by their three digit identifier (CMS-AMB-xxx) format. The data is presented as daily NetCDF (.nc) files, each containing approximately 24 hours of observations. Files follow the naming convention of: the project (CROCUS), location (atmos), instrument name (CMS-AMB-002), data level (raw, a1), and date (year, month, day). The NetCDF format can be accessed using common scientific software such as Python using xarray, netCDF4 or ACT-DOE.},
doi = {10.15485/3008394},
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year = {Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 UTC 2025},
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