A3 - Automatic tower stations - Measured values

For boundary layer measurements MeteoSwiss operates 3 automatic tower stations at 150m to 230m above ground. They deliver temperature, humidity, wind, radiation, pressure and sunshine duration every ten minutes.

3.1. Data granularity, update frequency, format and volume

If you require hourly, daily, monthly or annual values, we strongly recommend that you download the corresponding aggregated data granularity t, h, d, m, y and update frequency hourly (now), daily (recent) or yearly (historical),

Data format is CSV with an estimated volume of ≤5.3 MB per file.

See example data files for station UEB (set in lower case) for all granularities and update frequencies mentioned: ogd-smn-tower_ueb_(data granularity)_(update frequency).csv.

3.2. Parameter metadata

For example parameter metadata files see 1.2. Parameter metadata above.

The productive version will provide a single parameter metadata file for all granularities; file name: ogd-smn-tower_meta_parameters.csv.

3.3. Station metadata

See example station metadata file.

The productive version will provide a station metadata file with the file name: ogd-smn-tower_meta_stations.csv.

3.4. Data visualisation

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