The design, installation and operation of a fully computerized, automatic weather station for high quality meteorological measurements

The design, installation and operation of an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) are described and analysed in the present paper. This station of high endurance is easy to be installed and capable for long-time operation without significant problems. The metadata of the station which are the characteristics of the instruments, electronic logic control and datalogging systems are described in detail, according to the Guides of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Moreover, a computer controlled environment is designed and implemented, with capabilities of data acquisition and control with flexible and high performing software and hardware capabilities. The AWS can easily communicate, so directly as remotely, with some modifications and both possibilities are examined in detail. Finally, an evaluation procedure is presented and analyzed, while the obtained results are used for testing the system. The evaluation depicted the unique and well established characteristics of the system and proved its potential application to meteorological data collection and calculation.