Short
timeline of the PWS:
·
August
2010: started with a Techno Line WS 2350 (WS2350)
o
Sensors:
Console, Wind, Indoor/Outdoor Temperature/Hygro,
Barometer and Rain Gauge
o
433
MHz Frequency
o
Local
storage (170 Memory Slots)
o
USB/serial
interface to PC SW HeavyWeather
·
August
2018: moved to a Sainlogic
WS3500 WLAN Weatherstation with 7-in-1 Sensors and Cloud Access (WS3500)
o
Sensors: Console, Wind,
Indoor/Outdoor Temperature/Hygro, Barometer, UV/Solar
Light, Rain
Gauge
o
Identical
to Ventus W830 = Waldbeck Huygens = Chilitec 22515 CTW-902 Wifi =
Conrad Eurochron EFWS 2900
o
Identical
to Froggit WH3000/WH3000SE/WH3500 (WH3000SE)
o
Identical
to Ambient WS-2902 (WS2902)
o Clone of Fine Offset Ecowitt WS2910 (WS2910) = WH24 (“boat”)/WH65 (Y-Shape)
o
868
MHz Frequency
·
2019: added a Wifi Weather Camera DERICAM PTX S2-32G (DERICAM)
·
2020: added
an Ecowitt GW1000 Gateway (GW1000)
o
With
Metobridge Connection to AWEKAS and Ambient Weather Netwwork Licence: (Meteobridge)
o
Added Sensors with 868 MHz Frequency
o
WS68
Wind and UV/Solar Light (WS68)
o
WH31
Temperature/Humidity (WH31)
o
WH41
PM2.5 Air Quality (WH41)
o
WH51
Soil Moisture (WH51)
o
WH57
Lightning Detector (WH57)
·
June 2022: added an Ecowitt
Wittboy (Wittboy)
o
GW2000
Gateway
o
WS90
Sensors: Haptic/Piezo Rain, Indoor/Outdoor Temperature/Hygro,
Ultrasonic Anemometer, UV/Solar/Light Panel
o
Started
Cumulus MX Webpage (PWS-Suttenbrunn)
·
Nov 2022: added Wifi Weather Camera Ecowitt Wittcam (HP10)
·
Jan 2023: started CumulusUtils Webpage (PWS-Suttenbrunn CumulusUtils)
·
Jan 2023: added indoor
CO2/PM2.5/PM10 Sensor (WH45)
·
Feb 2023: started with
weather forecast: (WXSIM), (Met.no), (EWN) and (Yr.no)
·
6-Mar-2023: activated
customized version of WXSIM for location Suttenbrunn (standard licence key + cty.fdt)
·
18-Mar-2023: activated professional
mode of WXSIM and started with
soil forecasts, learned bias corrections (correct.txt, details.txt) and WXSIM-Lite
·
April 2023: added Soil
Temperature Sensor Froggit (DP150) = (WH34S)
·
April 2023: added Leaf
Wetness Sensor Froggit (DP10) = (Wn35)
·
Dec 2023: mounted HP10 WittCam on UBeesize
Mini Stativ
·
19-May-2024: replacement for
WH65 sensor-array and rain tipping bucket
·
01-Feb-2025: added
Laser Distance Sensor for Snow Depth (Ecowitt LDS01 WH54)
·
Ecowitt Solar Sensor WS90 in GW-2000
o
21-Aug-2023:
1st Calibration
§ Before the UV Index was too high
(informed by AWEKAS administrator)
§ Set UV gain to 0,78
§ Set also Irradiance Gain to 0,78
§ Afterwards UV
Index was accurate but Sun
Hours were too low
o
2-Mar-2024:
2nd Calibration
§
Leave
UV gain to 0,78
§ Re-set Irradiance Gain to 1,0
§ Now UV Index and Sun Hours
are accurate and display of CumulusMX webtag <#IsSunny> and Solar Radiation Chart Curve
follow the Ryan-Stolzenbach algorithm.
§ Set CMX Solar Sun Treshold: 70%
·
Ecowitt Piezo/Haptic Rain Gauge WS90/GW-2000
o
4-Jun-2022:
Installation
§ Upgrade to Firmware V1.1.9 (not yet
upgraded to v1.4.3)
o
26-Jun-2022:
Calibration of Rain Gain (FW dependent)
§ Gain1: 0,6 for rain rate <
4 mm/hr
§ Gain2: 1,0 for rain rate < 10 mm/hr
§ Gain3: 1,0 for rain rate < 30 mm/hr
§ Gain4: 1,0 for rain rate < 60 mm/hr
§ Gain4: 1,0 for rain rate > 60 mm/hr
The PWS
uses mainly sensors from Ecowitt: (Fine Offset)
|
Brand |
Model |
Sensor
Type |
#Units |
Technology |
Distance |
|
|||
|
Sainlogic (Ecowitt) |
WS3500 (WS2910,
WH65) |
Rain Gauge |
1 |
Tipping Bucket |
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Temperature |
1 |
Outdoor |
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Hygrometer |
1 |
|
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Barometer |
1 |
|
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Wind Direction |
1 |
|
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Wind Speed |
1 |
|
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
UV Index |
1 |
|
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Solar Light |
1 |
|
2 m |
|
|||
|
|
Console (WH2910) |
Temperature |
1 |
Indoor, WIFI |
|
|
|||
|
Ecowitt |
GW1000 |
Gateway |
|
WIFI |
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Barometer |
1 |
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Temperature |
1 |
Indoor |
|
|
|||
|
|
WS68 |
Wind Direction |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Wind Speed |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
UV Index |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Solar Light |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
WH31 |
Temperature |
2 |
Indoor + Outdoor |
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Humidity |
2 |
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WH41 |
Air Quality |
1 |
PM2.5 |
|
|
|||
|
|
WH51 |
Soil Moisture |
2 |
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WH57 |
Lightning Detector |
1 |
Sound based |
< 40
km |
|
|||
|
|
GW2000 |
Gateway |
|
WIFI +
LAN |
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Barometer |
1 |
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Temperature |
1 |
Indoor |
|
|
|||
|
|
WS90 |
Rain Gauge |
1 |
Piezo/Haptic |
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Wind Direction |
1 |
Ultrasonic |
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Wind Speed |
1 |
Ultrasonic |
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Temperature |
1 |
Outdoor |
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Hygrometer |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
UV Index |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Solar Light |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
|
Solar Panel |
1 |
|
10 m |
|
|||
|
|
HP10 |
Webcam |
1 |
WIFI |
|
|
|||
|
|
WH45 |
CO2 |
1 |
Indoor
CO2 PM2.5 PM10 Temp. +
Humidity |
|
|
|||
|
Froggit (Ecowitt) |
DP150 (WH34S) |
Soil Temperature |
1 |
Outdoor
Probe |
- 10 to - 30 cm |
|
|||
|
Froggit (Ecowitt) |
DP10 (WN35) |
Leaf Wetness |
1 |
|
50 cm |
|
|||
|
Ecowitt |
WH54/LDS01 |
Laser Distance |
1 |
Snow
Depth |
1.277 m |
||||
|
Meteobridge |
TL-MR3020 |
Gateway |
1 |
WIFI +
LAN |
|
|
|||
|
|
|
USB Hub |
0 |
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
RAM |
32MB |
|
|
|
|||
|
DERICAM |
S2-32G |
Webcam |
1 |
WIFI |
|
|
|||
|
Legend |
In Use |
Primary |
Green |
Main
sensors |
|
|
|||
|
|
|
Secondary |
Light
green |
Backup
sensors |
|
|
|||
The PWS
uses the following software, firmware, scripts and APPs:
·
App
WS View Plus (WS View Plus)
·
App
Ecowitt (Ecowitt)
·
App
SmartMixin Weather (SmartMixin)
·
App PWT Personal Weather Tablet (PWT)
·
App Yr (NRK)
·
App Rain Viewer (MeteoLab)
·
App
Windy.com
·
App
bergfex
·
Firmware:
EasyWeather, GW1000A, GW2000A
(update to devices is done via WS View/Ecowitt APPs)
·
Firmware
WS90 (FW)
·
Firmware
Meteobridge (Releases)
·
PC
SW Cumulus MX (CMX) v4.x (and web templates from Neil Thomas) (Forum)
·
Alternate
Public Web Interface for CMX (AW) from Neil Thomas (WIKI)
·
Alternate
Interface for CMX (AI) from Neil Thomas (Oaktree)
·
Webpage Generator Cumulus Utils (CU) v7.x (Support)
·
Customized Weather Simulator from Tom Ehrensperger
WXSIM 2024 build 1.1 (WXSIM)
·
Saratoga
PHP script plaintext-parser for WXSIM (saratoga-weather.org)
·
Leuven v4.11/v4.12 PHP forecast scripts (2022-03-27/2023-04-28) for
WXSIM and Met.no (Forum) + (Demo/Download)
·
Adapted (for PHP
5.3) EWN-style WXSIM-forecast scripts (13.03.2017) (nordicweather)
·
Adapted
3in1 WXSIM-forecast scripts (09.10.2016) (nordicweather)
The PWS
feeds data in near real time to the following cloud services:
|
Cloud Service |
Link |
Interval |
ID |
Feed |
|
Ambient Weather Network |
5 Min. |
MAC Address |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Automatic Position Reporting
System |
5 Min. |
FW5813 |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Automatisches Wetterkarten
System |
1 Min. |
7197 |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Citizen Weather Observer Program |
5 Min. |
FW5813 |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Ecowitt |
1 Min. |
Shared Token MAC Address |
GW2000 Wittboy |
|
|
Ecowitt Webcam |
15 Min. |
Shared Token |
HP10 |
|
|
Met Office WeatherObservationsWebsite |
5 Min. |
f4368f76-dfce-e811-a8eb-0003ff5999e3 |
WS2910 |
|
|
Meteo Services (Weather365) |
5 Min. |
8590 |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Meteobridge Webcam |
30 Min |
|
Meteobridge |
|
|
PWS Weather |
5 Min. |
SUTTENBRUNNPWS |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Weather Cloud |
10 Min. |
Suttenbrunn PWS-Suttenbrunn-2 PWS-Suttenbrunn-3 |
WS2910 GW1000 Wittboy |
|
|
Windy |
5 Min. |
pws-f02c5299 |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Windguru |
5 Min. |
3485 |
Meteobridge |
|
|
Wunderground |
5 Min. |
IHOLLA35 IHOLLABR17 IHOLLA12 |
Wittboy WS2910 GW1000 |
Note: not all sensors are supported by all cloud services (depending on
protocol format WU/Ecowitt)
The PWS
uses the following forecast models and sites:
|
Forecast Type (Location) |
Link |
Model(s) |
Interval |
ID |
|
European Weathernetwork
(Finnland) |
EWN, MET, Multi |
Daily 18:00 |
Geo Coord. |
|
|
Kachelmanwetter (Switzerland) |
Super HD, Multi |
Daily |
City ID |
|
|
Meteoblue (Switzerland) |
Multi |
2x/Day |
City ID |
|
|
Met.no + Leuven script wsFctMetnoPage4 (Norway) |
MET, NRK HIRLAM |
2-4x/Day |
Geo Coord. |
|
|
Nordicweather (Norway) |
DWD, ICON-EU, ECMWF, MET |
Daily |
Geo Coord. |
|
|
SpotWX (Canada) |
GDPS |
2x/Day 1 a.m/p.m |
Geo Coord. |
|
|
WetterOnline.de (Germany) |
GFS, ECMWF, ICON |
Daily |
City ID |
|
|
Windy.com (coop with Meteoblue) |
GFS,
ECMWF, ICON |
Daily |
Geo Coord. |
|
|
WXSIM + EWN style script (local PWS-Suttenbrunn Austria) |
WXSIM,
METAR, FSU(coolwx), RAOB, GFS +
ECMWF |
4x/Day 9/15/18/21 |
Customized |
|
|
WXSIM + 3in1 script incl. soil
data (local PWS-Suttenbrunn Austria) |
WXSIM GFS + ECMWF |
4x/Day 9/15/18/21 |
Customized |
|
|
WXSIM + Leuven script wsFctWxsimDPage (local PWS-Suttenbrunn Austria) |
WXSIM GFS + ECMWF |
4x/Day 9/15/18/21 |
Customized |
|
|
WXSIM + Saratoga script
plaintext-parser (local PWS-Suttenbrunn Austria) |
WXSIM GFS + ECMWF |
4x/Day 9/15/18/21 |
Customized |
|
|
Yourweather.co.uk (UK) |
ECMWF UKMO |
Daily |
City ID, API Key |
|
|
Yr.no (Norway) |
MET, NRK |
2x/Day |
City ID |
|
|
ZAMG.ac.at (Austria) GeoSphere |
ECMWF + AROME (nested), INCA |
Daily |
Lower Austria |
Multi: subset
of ACCESS-G (Australia), AROME (ZAMG Austria), ARPEGE (France), ECMWF, EWN (nordicweather PWS), GDPS (Canada), GEM (CMC Canada), GFS (NCEP/NOAA US), FV3GFS(GFDL), GEFSv12 (EMC), GEFSv12/UFS (NWS/NOAA), (HARMONIE (NL), HIRLAM (NMI/MET/MRK Norway+FMI
Finland), ICON (DWD Germany), KNMI (NL), MEPS (MetCoOp=FMI+MET), MOS, NEMS/NMM, Swiss-MRF, SwissHD, SuperHD, UKMO (UK), WRF (NCEP+NCAR US), …
|
Model |
Country |
operated
by |
Horizontal Grid
Res. |
Vertical Layers |
Forecast Depth |
Step |
Ensemble Members |
|
Global Forecast System (GFS) Upgraded to FV3GFS Upgraded to GEFSv12/UFS Ensemble: GEFS |
US |
NWS NCEP NOAA CPC |
35 km 23 km 46 km |
64 127 |
16 days |
12 h 2x/day 6 h |
1 30 |
|
Integrated Forecast System (IFS) (ECMWF HRES) Ensemble: ENS |
EU |
ECMWF |
9 km 14 km |
137 |
10 days 15 days |
6 h 4x/day |
1 50 |
|
Application of Research
to Operations at Mesoscale (AROME) |
Austria |
GeoSphere (ex ZAMG) |
1 - 2,5 km |
90 |
1,25 days |
3 h 8x/day |
nested in IFS |
|
ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic (ICON) ICON7 (Europe, not global) Ensemble: ICON-D2-EPS |
Germany |
DWD |
13 km 7 km 2,2 km |
90 65 |
7,5 days 5 days 2 days |
6 h 4x/day 3h |
1 20 |
|
Global Environmental Multiscale
Model (GEM) Ensemble: Global Deterministic Prediction System (GDPS) |
Canada |
CMC RPN MRB |
25 - 35 km 33 km |
21 15 |
10 days 16 days |
12 h 2x/day |
1 20 |
|
Unified Model (UM) (UKMO) Ensemble: MOGREPS-G |
UK |
MET Office |
10 - 16 km 20 km |
70 70 |
7 days |
12 h 2x/day |
1 18 |
|
Australian Community Climate and
Earth-System Simulator (ACCESS-G) Based on MET Office Unified Model |
AUS |
Bureau of
Meteorology |
25 km |
50 |
10 days |
6h 4x/Day |
1 |
|
Action de Recherche Petite Echelle
Grande Echelle (ARPEGE) Local: ALADIN + AROME Ensemble: Prevision d’Ensemble
ARPege (PEARP) |
France |
Meteo- France CNRM |
25 km 40 km |
105 |
4 – 5 days |
6h 4x/Day |
1 25 |
|
High Resolution Limited Area Model
(HIRLAM) Ensemble: GLAMEPS |
Denmark Norway Finland NL |
DMI MET FMI KNMI |
2,5 km 8 km |
65 |
3 days 2,5 days |
|
1 52 |
The PWS
uses the following WXSIM setup parameters:
|
WXSIM Setup |
Settings |
Remark |
|
Cty.fdt |
Suttenbrunn |
|
|
Located in north-central Austria,
Suttenbrunn has a slightly more continental type
climate than does most of north-central Europe. Winters are fairly cold,
with temperatures mostly near freezing.
In the coldest spells, some nights may fall to -20 C. Winter
precipitation can be either snow or rain, and snow may lie on the ground for
several days at a time in many years.
Summers are pleasantly warm, with afternoon highs mostly in the 20's
C, but nights are pleasantly cool, usually between 10 and 15 C. Hot spells can occur, with some days
reaching 35 C in some years. Annual precipitation
is moderate, approaching 500 - 700 mm, and fairly well
distributed through the year. Some of the summer rain falls in thunderstorms. |
||
|
30:70 |
|
|
|
WXSIM-Lite Influence(3) (GFS based) |
< 50% |
|
|
Preferences Special Settings
Precipitation Intensity(4) |
80 |
|
|
METAR (stations), (METAR Data Retriever), (decoding) |
LOWW+11036 |
|
|
RAOB (Sites), (RAOB data retriever) |
11035 11747 (LKPJ) 10868 (EDNX) |
|
The PWS uses
the following WXSIM BIAS history settings to correct the Mean Absolute Error (MAE)(wiki) for temperature and dewpoint forecasts:
|
Date |
Mix |
WRET to Actuals |
WXSIM Lite (max %) |
WXSIM Lite |
WXSIM Lite [Days] |
WXSIM Lite |
Preferences |
BIAS |
MAE (Celsius) Goal < 1,36 |
|
06.03.2023 |
40:60 |
|
n/a |
n/a |
|
|
100 |
n/a |
n/a |
|
18.03.2023 |
40:60 |
26 |
70% |
0 |
|
|
100 |
Start prof. Mode |
2,49 |
|
17.04.2023 |
40:60 |
114 |
70 |
45,9 |
50 |
|
80 |
set Lite = 70 |
1,86 |
|
06.05.2023 |
40:60 |
188 |
40 |
59,6 |
50 |
|
80 |
set Lite = 40 |
1,47 |
|
07.05.2023 |
30:70 |
188 |
40 |
47,4 |
50 |
|
80 |
set Mix = 30:70 |
1,28 |
|
29.07.2023 |
30:70 |
481 |
50 |
37,6 |
50 |
|
80 |
set Lite = 50 |
1,45 |
|
12.08.2023 |
30:70 |
538 |
50 |
43,6 |
50 |
|
80 |
|
1,54 |
|
19.08.2023 |
30:70 |
525 |
50 |
42,1 |
50 |
|
80 |
|
1,49 |
|
26.08.2023 |
30:70 |
580 |
50 |
45,5 |
50 |
|
80 |
|
1,39 |
|
02.09.2023 |
30:70 |
600 |
50 |
46,3 |
50 |
173 |
80 |
|
1,49 |
|
09.09.2023 |
30:70 |
636 |
50 |
47,6 |
50 |
176 |
80 |
|
1,37 |
|
16.09.2023 |
30:70 |
664 |
50 |
48,0 |
50 |
183 |
80 |
|
1,34 |
|
23.09.2023 |
30:70 |
679 |
50 |
48,1 |
50 |
176 |
80 |
|
1,41 |
|
30.09.2023 |
30:70 |
711 |
50 |
48,3 |
50 |
176 |
80 |
|
1,37 |
|
07.10.2023 |
30:70 |
735 |
50 |
48,3 |
50 |
186 |
80 |
|
1,32 |
|
14.10.2023 |
30:70 |
769 |
50 |
48,4 |
50 |
187 |
80 |
|
1,48 |
|
21.10.2023 |
30:70 |
797 |
50 |
48,4 |
50 |
189 |
80 |
|
1,64 |
|
28.10.2023 |
30:70 |
825 |
50 |
48,4 |
50 |
190 |
80 |
|
1,74 |
|
04.11.2023 |
30:70 |
853 |
50 |
48,5 |
50 |
186 |
80 |
|
1,51 |
|
11.11.2023 |
30:70 |
881 |
50 |
48,5 |
50 |
186 |
80 |
|
1,51 |
|
18.11.2023 |
30:70 |
910 |
50 |
48,6 |
50 |
179 |
80 |
|
1,57 |
|
25.11.2023 |
30:70 |
924 |
50 |
48,6 |
50 |
179 |
80 |
|
1,44 |
|
02.12.2023 |
30:70 |
945 |
50 |
48,6 |
50 |
165 |
80 |
|
1,32 |
|
09.12.2023 |
30:70 |
957 |
50 |
48,6 |
50 |
156 |
80 |
|
1,43 |
The PWS
shows the following accuracy of WXSIM forecasts based on WRET comparison of
forecast values to
PWS actual values and
applied BIAS corrections (manual auto-learning):
PWS-Suttenbrunn Rain Accuracy and MAE (experimental) Highchart MAE Temp Highchart MAE Rain
Background
information about WXSIM temperature accuracy and MAE calculations can be found
under the following links:
WXSIM Accuracy WXSIM accuracy.pdf Forum weather-watch.com about WXSIM
