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An Oklahoma Mesonet site consists of the following:
a 100 square-meter plot of land (10 meters by 10 meters), one
10-meter metal tower held in place by three guy wires, a cattle
fence, a lightning rod, a solar panel, a battery, a radio transmitter,
a special micro-computer called a data logger, instruments
attached to the tower, instruments near the tower buried underground,
and a ground-mounted rain gauge surrounded by a wind screen.
All
Mesonet sites are solar-powered. The data logger informs each
instrument when it should take a measurement and sends the
data through a radio transmitter at the appointed time. The
data are broadcast over radio waves to a nearby sheriff, police
or highway patrol station. The data enters the Oklahoma Law
Enforcement Telecommunications System (OLETS) and is sent to
OU through the main OLETS office in Oklahoma City. |
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