LUMCON Weather Station Information

Station Information

Location: Tambour Bay
Latitude: 29° 11.242' N
Longitude: 90° 39.925' W
Elevation: 1 meters

Last Inspection Date:7/23/2010 9:50:00 AM

Instruments

Meteorologic Instrumentation
Description	Model #	Manufacturer
Air Pressure Sensor	PTB101B	Vaisala
Humidity & Temp Probe	HMP45AC	Vaisala
Pyranometer	LI 200 SZ	Li-Cor
Quantum Light Sensor	LI-190SB	Li-Cor
Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge	TR-525I	Texas Electronics Inc
Wind Monitor	05103	R.M. Young Company
Hydrographic Instrumentation
Description	Model #	Manufacturer
Chlorophyll Probe	6025	YSI
Conductivity Probe	YSI 6560	YSI
Dissolved Oxygen Probe	6450-AF ROX	YSI
Sonde 6600 EDS	6600 EDS	YSI
Turbidity Probe	YSI 6436-AF	YSI
Electronic Instrumentation
Description	Model #	Manufacturer
Antenna, Yagi 890-960 MHz	YA5 900	Radiall/Larsen Antenna Technologies
Cable, Sonde, Flying Lead	99H18	YSI
Cable, Sonde, vented	00A29	YSI
Marine Battery	8271	NAPA Auto Parts
Micrologger CR23X	CR23X	Campbell Scientific
Optically Isolated RS232 Interface	SC32A	Campbell Scientific
Solar Panel, 20 Watt	SX20U	Solarex
Surge Suppressor, Antenna	IS-B50HN-C2	PolyPhaser
Surge supressor, Dataline RS232	DB9	Tripp Lite
Wireless Data Transceiver	DGR-115R	FreeWave Technologies

Maintenance History (3 Months) [View Entire History]

Date	Action	Comments
8/4/2010	Troubleshooting
7/23/2010	Inspection
6/14/2010	Troubleshooting	$The battery voltage readings were still coming down. The problem was in the regulator as it was giving not enough output voltage; we replaced it with a new one. We also cleaned the connectors to the battery with sand paper.\n$

Station Elevation Information

A survey was conducted on October 14, 2003 to determine the vertical elevation of a brass monument located on the base of the Tambour Bay tower located at Latitude 29 11.231 N, Longitude 090 39.927 W. To review the full version of this survey in PDF format Click Here.
The survey was conducted by:

Morris P. Hebert Inc.
Surveying - Engineering - Environmental Services
283 Corporate Drive
PO Box 3106
Houma, LA. 70361

The following correction factors should be applied to the raw data:

	Feet	Meters
NAVD 88 Correction Term (Subtract from Database Sonde Value)	0.97	0.296

Note: Corrections are already applied on web pages and graphs. Corrections only need to be applied to archived data. All archived depth data is reported in meters.

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