Attention:

The Wind Sensor (Anemometer) is part of the Weather Station.

Summary

A wind sensor recording wind direction and wind speed is installed on the starboard side of the top of the main mast of RV Heincke.


Manufacturer Thies CLIMA
Model wind and wind direction transmitter classic
Serial No. n/a
Type meteorological package
REGISTRY-Link ↪ REGISTRY (2373)


Contacts

Name Institution Role
Henry Kleta Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Data Provider

Position

Infoxyz-position of sensor from Alignment Survey Report RV Heincke (January 2016). Sensor is installed on the main mast of the vessel.
X32.097 m
Positive X axis is forward and along the centerline of the vessel with X0 at the Stern point of the vessel.
Y2.185 m
Positive Y axis is portside of centerline with Y0 at centerline at the Very stern point of the vessel.
Z27.791 m
Positive Z axis is upwards of basis. Z0 is set to the hydrophone on midship.

Data logging, storage and archiving

Logged parameters

Parameter O2ARegistry Output Type Unit
relative wind speed speed m/s
relative wind direction wind direction deg

Central geographical ship's position and time standard

Time synchronization and geographical positioning is done by DShip receiving the data for logging.

Rawdata storage on board

Data storage in DShip system.

DShip

Uncorrected measurement data.

Device name

Special Meteorological Instrumentation

Parameters

Wind direction (deg)
Wind speed (m/s)

Data archiving on land

After the cruise the DShip data set can be extracted from https://dship.awi.de/.

Documentation

No resources available.