VisualWeather™ SoftwareVersion 3.1Revision: 4/11Copyright © 2001-2011Campbell Scientific, Inc.
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VisualWeather™ Software 1. Introduction VisualWeather software is designed to work with Campbell Scientific's pre-configured weather station mod
VisualWeather™ Software 1.1 Background Each weather station consists of a datalogger and a group of sensors. The sensors are designed to measure env
VisualWeather™ Software 2.1.2 For Users Upgrading from VisualWeather 1 VisualWeather 3.X will not upgrade an existing VisualWeather 1 installation.
VisualWeather™ Software To install the software, insert the VisualWeather CD into the CD ROM drive of your computer. The installation process should
VisualWeather™ Software 3.3 Getting Help VisualWeather has a complete on-line help system. Most screens have a Help button that, when pressed, will
VisualWeather™ Software After you have progressed through all steps of the wizard, press the Finish button to save the configuration and return to the
VisualWeather™ Software All weather stations that have been configured using VisualWeather will be listed on the left side of the screen under the St
VisualWeather™ Software 6.2 Monitoring Current Conditions Current weather conditions can be viewed after connecting to a weather station. Click the
VisualWeather™ Software 6.3 Monitoring Station Status When you have a connection established with a weather station, you can view the station’s statu
VisualWeather™ Software table size. A data table can be reset from this window by pressing the Reset Tables button. No Table Fill Time statistics wil
VisualWeather™ Software 6.4 Field Monitor Clicking the Field Monitor button will bring up a screen that allows you to view the numeric values for a t
VisualWeather™ Software It is nearly impossible to synchronize the two clocks exactly, since it takes time to transfer the clock setting to the weathe
VisualWeather™ Software After a station is selected, use the option buttons to select the time range that the report should cover. Note that VisualWe
VisualWeather™ Software desired for each bin. Any wind speeds that fall in between the low and high will be placed in the corresponding bin. Any val
VisualWeather™ Software 7.2.2 Evapotranspiration (ETo) EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (ETO) — Select the ETo Method to be used and enter the anemometer height in
VisualWeather™ Software 7.2.3 Crop Water Need CROP WATER NEED — Select the Crop Name and enter the Planting Date. Next enter the Duration (Days) for
VisualWeather™ Software 7.2.4 Growing Degree Days and Growing Degree Days 2 GROWING DEGREE DAYS AND GROWING DEGREE DAYS 2 — Enter the Crop Name. Nex
VisualWeather™ Software 7.2.6 Custom Reports Custom reports are available that let you plot one or more traces on a graph and/or monitor one or more
VisualWeather™ Software 7.2.7 Custom X-Y Reports Custom X-Y report are available that allow you to plot one or more X-Y traces on a graph and/or moni
License for Use This software is protected by United States copyright law and international copyright treaty provisions. The installation and use of t
VisualWeather™ Software right-clicking and choosing Delete. Selecting the Generate daily values if time range > 1 day will cause only daily values
VisualWeather™ Software • Upper-Lower – Uses both the Upper Temperature Limit (upperThreshold) and Lower (Base) Temperature (lowerThreshold) to cal
VisualWeather™ Software • Sine – This GDD Method is an industry standard also known as the Baskerville-Emin (BE) method. The method of calculation
VisualWeather™ Software 7.3.1 New To create a new batch report click the New button on the Batch Reports Schedule screen. The Batch Report Selectio
VisualWeather™ Software Select whether you want to generate on Demand (user initiated creation) or according to Schedule (automatically generated).
VisualWeather™ Software 7.3.2 Edit To Edit a batch report that has already been created, select it in the list and click the Edit button. The batch
VisualWeather™ Software The following components are available in Station Data. Listed below each component are the sensors (for pre-configured weathe
VisualWeather™ Software Note that when using Air Temperature and RH to calculate the Heat Index, the Air Temperature and RH must fall within these bou
VisualWeather™ Software Rain Last 24 Hours Rain Last 24 Hours Sensors: TE525-T Tipping Bucket Rain Gage, TE525WS Tipping Bucket Rain Gage, TE525mm Ti
VisualWeather™ Software Barometric Pressure Barometric Pressure Sensors: CS105MD Real Time Fields: Barometric Pressure Solar Radiation Solar Radia
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VisualWeather™ Software Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Sensors: Sensors that measure Air Temperature and
VisualWeather™ Software Enclosure RH Enclosure RH (inside the weather station enclosure) Real Time Fields: Enclosure RH 9. Monitoring the Data Col
VisualWeather™ Software Network Paused - VisualWeather has paused communication in the network. Unreachable - The device cannot be reached through th
VisualWeather™ Software Total Retries and Total Failures will equal Total Attempts. NOTE A graph is shown for each station to help show historical co
VisualWeather™ Software To remove a station from the network, select it and click the Remove Station button. The station will become a past weather s
VisualWeather™ Software Air Temperature (requires one of the following) • Air Temperature Min • Air Temperature Max • Air Temperature Avg Solar Rad
VisualWeather™ Software Soil Water • Soil Water Avg Fuel Moisture • Fuel Moisture Avg Evapotranspiration • Air Temperature Avg • RH Avg • Wind S
VisualWeather™ Software 11.2 Real Time Field Mapping Data mapping required to monitor Current Conditions and view Station Data is done from the Real
VisualWeather™ Software • If FTP Enabled is checked, all files that are being output to the Local Output Folder will also be sent to the Remote Folde
VisualWeather™ Software 13. Exporting and Importing Data 13.1 Exporting Data Data retrieved from a weather station can be exported to a file for fur
Limited Warranty The following warranties are in effect for ninety (90) days from the date of shipment of the original purchase. These warranties are
VisualWeather™ Software 13.2 Importing Data The Import Data function can be used to import data from a data file into VisualWeather’s database for a
VisualWeather™ Software 15. Programming Custom Weather Stations When an ET106, ET107, Toro T107, or MetData1 station is configured in VisualWeather,
VisualWeather™ Software Object State Log (state$.log) - This log is used for troubleshooting an object in the weather station network. The informatio
VisualWeather™ Software Log files can be saved to individual files automatically by selecting Options | Log File Settings from the LogTool menu and se
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Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs A.1 Evapotranspiration This appendix explains the process of evapotrans
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs Over the years the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs 2. Calculations for Rn (net radiation at the crop surface). The net ra
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs 2b. Calculation of the Radiation Ratio (Rs/Rso) Rs = measured value of
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs Where n = number of hours of actual sunshine (hours) N =maximum p
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs Lz = Longitude of the center of the station's time zone (west of t
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs where the atmospheric pressure is obtained from the following equation:
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs The 24 hourly values of ETo calculated using equation (2) are added to
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs This difference is calculated by calculating the saturated vapor pressure
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs Table 1. Names, symbols and units of all quantities used in calculations
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs Latent heat of vaporization of water λ=2.45 MJ/kg Atmospheric pressure
Appendix A. Evapotranspiration, Vapor Pressure Deficit, and Crop Water Needs A-12 Stefan-Boltzmann constant SIGMA = 2.043 x 10 -10 MJ/m2/K4/hour
Appendix B. Growing Degree Days (GDD) B.1 Growing Degree Days This section explains the concept of growing degree-days (GDD) and methods used in Vis
Appendix C. Dew Point C.1 Dew Point Dew point is the temperature at which air saturates, upon cooling, without change in its water content. C.1.1 M
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Appendix D. Wind Chill D.1 Wind Chill Wind chill is a degree of ‘coldness’ experienced by exposed human skin due to increasing wind speeds at a give
Appendix E. Chill Hours E.1 Chill Hours Chill hours represent the number of hours the temperature stayed at or below a certain base (or reference) t
Appendix F. Heat Index F.1 Heat Index Heat index is the perceived temperature as influenced by relative humidity. For example, an air temperature o
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