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Markree Castle Automatic Weather Station (AWS)

Location:
54°10‘30” N
08°27’20’’ W
34 m above mean sea level

Quality controlled minute data available from 20-Aug-2007
Quality controlled daily data available from 1941 to 1998 (old station)

Markree Castle AWS is situated close to Markree Castle, Co Sligo.. The present station was commissioned in 2005 replacing a manual climate station which measured daily temperature and rainfall from 1860 to 1998. Due to site exposure, wind in not measured at the station.

The following parameters are recorded at the station:

Air Temperature
Soil Temperatures
Earth Temperatures
Grass Temperature
Rainfall
Atmospheric Pressure
Relative Humidity
Global Radiation

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