Kipp & Zonen LAS, Instruction Manual

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Weather station and/or sensors
4
LAS-BET LAS-RET
BET = Basic Evapo-Transpiration system
Flux station for measuring fluxes at field scale
Meteorological
sensors :
•
Temperature sensor * (upper level)
•
Temperature sensor * (lower level)
•
Wind speed sensor
•
Net radiation sensor (NR-Lite)
•
Soil heat flux plates (2
×
)
•
Stainless steel housing (Protection class
IP65) containing:
o
COMBILOG data logger (plus 2
Mb PCMCIA Flash memory
cards)
o
Overvoltage protection
o
Barotransmitter
Optional:
•
Aluminium mast (4 m) with cable guys,
grounding and sensor arms (similar to
LAS-RET)
RET = Radio Evapo-Transpiration System
Flux station for measuring fluxes at kilometre
scale
Meteorological
station :
•
Aluminium mast (4 m, with steel guys,
base plate and earth pins)
•
Lightning rod and grounding rod
•
U-shaped cross arm for:
o
Wind direction sensor
o
Wind speed sensor
•
Two-sided cross arm (upper level) for:
o
Temperature sensor *
o
Net radiation sensor
•
One-sided cross arm (lower level) for:
o
Temperature sensor *
•
Soil heat flux plates (2
×
)
•
Stainless steel housing (protection
class IP65) containing:
o COMBILOG data logger (plus
2 Mb PCMCIA Flash memory
cards)
o
Overvoltage protection
o
Barotranmsmitter
o Solar controller
o
Battery (~12V/85Ah)
o
Solar panel (~100 Watt)
o
2.4 GHz RF modem,
directional antenna, mounting
kit and cable (~5 m)
* The air temperature sensors are individually calibrated (between –20
o
C to +50
o
C) and have an accuracy of 0.01
o
C @ 0
o
C in
order to determine the stability of the atmosphere.
Kipp & Zonen reserves the right to make changes to the specifications without prior notice.
Additional components
•
Data logger support software (supplied on 1 CD)
•
PCMCIA flash card reader (built-in version, installation software/drivers, supplied on 2
CD’s)
•
Radio modem software xstreamCTU
(plus additional parts: ½-wave dipole antenna, loopback
adapter, null modem adapter (male-to-male), male & female RS-485/422 adapter, AC power
adapter, 9 volt battery adapter)
•
EVATION software (supplied on 1 CD)
•
Additional algorithms for EVATION
6
•
Instruction manuals of supplied sensors and components
•
1 CD containing original COMBILOG programs with calibration coefficients, pdf file of
LAS-system manual, xstreamCTU software)
6
Depending on LAS-BET / LAS-RET configuration