U. of MN. St. Paul Campus Climatological
Observatory
The University of Minnesota's Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
maintains a Climatological Observatory on the grounds of the University's
St. Paul campus. This page provides links to charts that show the last 3
days of data collected at the Observatory. These charts are updated each
hour. The new charts should be available by about 15 minutes after the top
of the hour.
Information about hourly data charts:
- Some charts show the maximum, average, and mininum values within
each hour.
- Some charts show average values for the hour.
- Precipitation and evaporation charts show the total for the hour.
- Data are sampled every five seconds to build the hourly summaries.
- Labeling on the X-axis of most of the charts is of the form MM
DD HOUR, showing the month, day, and hour for the data. The time is Central
Standard Time. Thus data labeled 6 19 1500 is for June 19th for the hour ending
at 1500 C.S.T.
Select a Chart
Description and examples
of the Gamma Data.
The following charts of soil and air temperatures
will be updated starting at 20 minutes after the hour.
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Soil temp. - bare plot
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Soil temp. - sod plot
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Air Temp. over Bare Soil Plot
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1,5,10,20,40 cm
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1,5,10,20,40 cm
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Air Temp. by height above Soil
Surface |
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50,60,80,100,120
cm
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50,60,80,100,120,160
cm
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all 10 depths
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320 - 1280 cm
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Air Temp. Profile above
Soil Surface |
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Temperature Profile
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Temperature Profile
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Air / Snow
/ Soil Temp. Profile
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Depth Conversion
Table
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Notes about Bare Soil Plot
Air Temps |
Minnesota Public Radio story --"U of M climatologist took the earth's temperature"
Air Temperature Profile
Above Sod Surface (Updated 35 minutes after the hour)

Table of Monthly Pan Evaporation, with summary statistics

Table of Monthly Precipitation, with Normals and other summary statistics

Average Monthly Maximum Air Temperature, with Normals and other summary statistics
Average Monthly Minimum Air Temperature, with Normals and other summary statistics
Monthly Mean Air Temperature, with Normals and other summary statistics

Annual Charts of Temperature, Precipitation, Snow Depth, etc. (Under construction)
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Page maintained by Dave Ruschy
Contact: Dave Ruschy, Dept. of Soil, Water, and Climate
- druschy@soils.umn.edu
Contact: Minnesota Climatology Working Group -
URL: http://climate.umn.edu/doc/observatory.htm
Last modified: June 17, 2002
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