• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

mobile met for use on road

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dane westerdahl

I am an air pollution guy doing on-road measurements of air pollution. I could use some advice on how to assess ambient wind speed and direction while driving.
I need 10 second data and would have gps in the van as one means to determine my location, speed and direction of travel. Wind speeds are likely to be very low vs. the road speeds so I am reluctant to use vector subtraction unless I can be really confident in the met data collection. One thing that would help a lot is advice on such systems and whether any are able to sense and record "north" while underway.
Thanks
 
I can't believe no one has posted to this.

Search the forum for Mobile Mesonet. It's all probably still in the archives somewhere. This has been discussed at length and in some detail too.

The short answer is:

Scientific Grade - (thus expensive) RM Young and Campbell
Prosumer Grade - Davis Instruments

Data Logging: Usually associated with the equipment you purchase. As far as motion correction, I don't think there's anything commercially available (hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong) that does this.

You might shoot an e-mail off to the folks at NSSL, or SPC and they might be able to guide you to the proper folks that have built that software. Some of the other ST Members may even know who a good contact would be for something like that.

I know the software has been done as I'm sure it was used during Vortex and the other ventures that required Mobile Mesonet Data. So it's out there, just how available it is would be the question.

Good Luck!
 
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