At the start of the 1993-1994 field season, the Commonwealth Glacier meteorological station was constructed at the same coordinates as stake 11 on the glacier's mass balance grid. The station was set up to sample sensors every 30 seconds and send summary statistics (for example, averages and maximums) to solid-state storage modules every:
3 hours between November 22 and December 3, 1993,
30 minutes between December 3 and December 24, 1993,
30 minutes for the main array andamp; every 24 hours for the max/min thermal infrared between December 24, 1993 and; January 12, 1994,
6 hours for the main array andamp; every 24 hours for the max/min thermal infrared between January 12, 1994 and; January 18, 1994,
20 minutes between January 18, 1994 and November 27, 1995,
15 minutes thereafter.
This has resulted in approximately 20 values being recorded for final storage in every output interval.
Sampling and Averaging Intervals
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