Author(s)

Elisa Vuillermoz¹, Gian Pietro Verza¹, Paolo Cristofanelli², Paolo Bonasoni², Guido Roggero³, Andrea Merlone³

¹Ev-K2-CNR Association, Bergamo, Italy.
²Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Italian National Research Council (ISAC-CNR), Bologna, Italy.
³National Institute of Metrological Research (INRIM), Turin, Italy.

In-situ calibrations of weather stations are usually performed by positioning standard instruments close to the station under calibration and comparing the obtained results. This procedure could be useful to evaluate the proper functioning of the monitoring equipments, but do not allowed the determination of a calibration curve that allow the corrections of the acquired parameters. Thus, the development of a dedicated facility for in-situ calibration of weather stations, enabling simultaneous generation of a wide range of temperatures and pressures could offer important improvements in this framework, particularly if this facility is applied to high mountains monitoring stations where the weather stations calibrations could be very difficult. This paper will present the calibration chamber developed in the framework of the EMRP-METEOMET (Metrology for Meteorology) Project, which aims is to bring metrological traceability to high altitude meteorological instruments and through this experience will provide a general overview on the importance of the application of this methodology at different levels.

Automatic Weather Station, Himalaya, Climate Monitoring, AWSs Calibration, QA/QC Procedure

Vuillermoz, E. , Verza, G. , Cristofanelli, P. , Bonasoni, P. , Roggero, G. and Merlone, A. (2014) QA/QC Procedures for in-Situ Calibration of a High Altitude Automatic Weather Station: The Case Study of the AWS Pyramid, 5050 m asl, Khumbu Valley, Nepal. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, 4, 796-802. doi: 10.4236/acs.2014.45070.