New micrometeorological tower deployed

Post date: Apr 30, 2011 6:14:51 PM

Painted Cave (PACA) is now operational!. PACA is the fifth local network of environmental monitoring stations associated with IDEAS. This newest station, located along Painted Cave Road in the Santa Ynez hills above Santa Barbara is collecting daily environmental data for use in several Geography courses and graduate student dissertations. It represents our highest elevation site. In addition, it is the first to have an IR thermal radiometer included. It began collecting data on June 14, 2012 and these data are now available on www. geog.ucsb.edu/ideas

The tower, shown below, collects precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, wind, fog interception, sunlight and and surface temperature. It also has soil moisture/temperature probes installed, but they still need to be parameterized.