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The Web site for the Automated Environmental Monitoring Network, operated by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UGA, is intended to provide up-to-the-second--literally: the second--weather information for agricultural and environmental uses.
Every second, each automated station in the network monitors air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction and soil temperature at two, four- and eight-inch depths. Stations not yet automated call in their information at 15-minute intervals. The Web site provides the collected data, offers applications that make the numbers easier to use and gives ample links to other weather information. Viewers can find data on weather history, chilling hours, water balance, heating and cooling days and crop models.
More than 40 stations currently provide this second-by-second information, and as the network grows, the range of users--and the possible uses--is expanding too.
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