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DURING the period of June 1980 to June 1981, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and Miami University jointly developed a network of eight automated weather stations in Ohio. The network was deemed a valuable resource for several of Miami University's environmentally-oriented programs and OARDC-Wooster's research programs in energy and agriculture. OARDC-Wooster has a 100-year history of weather data collection and it is currently the site of one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) 20 or so special benchmark weather stations. The purpose of this paper is to summarize operational experience with the Ohio network for the 1 January 1982 to 31 December 1986 period. Descriptions of networks established in other states (e.g., Chang et al., 1983; Hubbard et al., 1983; Dugas and Whitis, 1984; Thompson et al., 1984) would be extremely useful for improving existing networks and designing new ones. |
