- Climate sentinels-

Photo credit: Eve Bigras

A network of 7 climate sentinels is being installed along the Saint-Lawrence River valley in order to quantify micro to meso-scale weather processes throughout the SLRV. Using continuous, real-time monitoring of ground and higher altitude climate variables (solar input, temperature, wind, precipitation) we will measure how these variables interact with each other and local topography to generate predictive models climate dynamics and extreme weather.

Sensors are different from one station to another but each of them includes:

1. A minimum of 8 thermometers, Campbell CS109 or HMP155A
2. Relative humidity sensor HMP155A
3. Kipp & Zonen Net Radiometer sensor
4. Soil Thermocouple probe
5. Soil moisture and temperature sensor
6. Leaf wetness sensor
7. Multipoint Scanning Snowfall sensor
8. OTT Parsivel2 present weather sensor
9. Atmospheric Visibility sensor
10. Metek Micro Rain Radar 2
11. Lidar ceilometer (on 4 stations)
12. Hotplate weather station
13. IRGASON or Vaisala CO2 sensor
14. Young wind monitor alpine version
15. Kipp & Zonen Thermopile pyranometer sensor CMP-10
16. Camera
17. Barometer
18. Soil heat flux plates

1 minute time interval data from the sensors are available live on this website. Archived data are available through a web-based database interface or on demand.