A Remote-Reading and -Recording Instrument Board for Weather Station

Abstract

An experimental remote - reading and -recording instrument board has been designed and assembled in 1951. It comprises a combination wind vane and anemometer, six thermometers with sealed carbon filaments (air, wet- and dry-bulb, and earth thermometers at three depths) and a float-actuated rain gauge, with their indicators and recorders, each of which was already reported in the preceding issues of the Papers. The instruments are incorporated in an instrument board in combination with two observation clocks, an aneroid barometer, a statoscope, an aneroid barograph and a Fortin mercurial barometer, each of ordinary make. The whole equipment was installed in December 1951 at the Maebashi Weather Station, and a preliminary test was successfully gone through in June 1952.