My boss has been a globe teacher/trainer since 2002.
I have two davis stations reporting daily and I do aerosol/surface temps manually when I'm able to. I'm currently helping a lot of academic institutions get their weather stations functioning properly and participating in GLOBE.
I'm going to paste the email protocol below. That's how we'd need it scripted, and it should be 15-minute intervals that look like what your image says. Davis does it automatically, but you can enter manually if you wanted to do 90+ lines per day..haha
I think this could be scripted to be automatic for pretty much any logger, especially with something like meteobridge. It would be very advantageous for studying climate over time to have much larger and complete data sets on globe. If someone wants to broadcast out from a davis machine right now I could just put in lat/long and give them my org ID and their site ID -- the rest is automatic -- provided they do it through weatherlink share. (like i assume you are). There's a category to add "citizen scientists" to our organization id.
I'm also wondering if I can get a Campbell logger broadcasting with a meteobridge even though it's not listed... with a serial connection and a USB cellular modem. I know people that use Campbell stuff would probably scoff at the idea but I'm trying to be pragmatic at getting stuff online with reliability and the least amount of money spent. I was told that when the loggers were last in use, people had to go out once per week and download the weather data. I don't want to have to go out to the device unless it's not responding, and I can't really justify spending a ton of money on their proprietary equipment even though a previous faculty member had enough grant money to put all these expensive units in locations that are miles away from campus. I did find an rs-232>ethernet device laying around, so I might try using that with a verizon hotspot i have. My concern is that you don't have a public IP address with verizon, so i'm not sure how i'd get it to work without trying, and it's december in ohio
I'm kinda learning a lot about weather stations on the fly while having a full academic load. Bear with me.
GLOBE: Email Data Entry Instructions (2/2017)
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Davis Air Data (DAVAD)
The automated Davis instrument should be configured to output values in the format
below. You will need to define your Site's metadata to indicate you have a Davis
weather station before you can submit your data. With email data entry, you can do
that by submitting an (ATSSM) record first, before any AMBAD records.
NOTE: As of Aug 20 2003, the David instrument needs to be configured to output
Sea Level Pressure, not station pressure. If your measurements were taken after
Aug 20 2003, yet your Davis instrument was Not configured to output Sea Level
Pressure, then please mark Field 14 as missing ( "X" ).
Field1: DAVAD
Field2: School ID
Field3: Site Type and Number ( Currently only defined Atmosphere Sites
accepted ) ( ATM-dd )
Field4: Date and Time of Measurement ( UT ) ( YYYYMMDDHHmm )
Field5: Temperature (degrees Celsius)
Field6: Relative Humidity ( % or "M" for suspect data )
Field7: Average Wind Speed ( meters/second or "M" for suspect data )
Field8: Average Wind Direction ( up to 3 level compass direction e.g. N or
NNE or NE or "M" for suspect data. )
Field9: Maximum Wind Speed ( meters/second or "M" for suspect data )
Field10: [IGNORED-NO LONGER USED] Maximum Wind Direction ( compass direction
or "M" for suspect data, X=Placeholder for Unused Field )
Field11: [IGNORED-NO LONGER USED] Wind Run ( kilometers or "M" for suspect data,
X=Placeholder for Unused Field )
Field12: Rainfall ( millimeters or "M" for suspect data)
Field13: Rainfall Rate ( millimeters per hour or "M" for suspect data )
Field14: Sea Level Pressure ( mbar or "M" for suspect data )
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Creating an E-Mail Message:
There are many computer programs available for creating e-mail messages. Your
system must be able to send e-mail messages via the Internet. Since the exact
method for creating a message varies from system to system, you should consult
your local system administrator or computer expert for this type of information.
All e-mail programs will allow you to specify the address where the message is
to be sent (TO: ) and the subject of the message (SUBJECT: ). There will also be
an area where you type the text of the message itself. This information is
required for entering data into the GLOBE archive. (Your system may allow you to
specify other information, for example "cc:", "bcc:", or "attachments". These
are not required for entering data into the GLOBE data archive, and can be left
empty.) Please do not send any data as an "attachment". All data must be entered
directly into the body of the message.
The Format of the E-Mail Message:
All data entry e-mail messages should be sent to either of the following two
addresse:
DATA@GLOBE.GOV
Training e-mail data entry messages must be sent to:
PRACTICEDATA@GLOBE.GOV
This is the address that you will enter in the TO: field of your e-mail message.
It must be entered exactly as shown, without any spaces and with no errors. If
there are any errors in the address, your message will not be received and your
data will not be entered into the archive.
To indicate that this is a GLOBE data entry message, enter the following in the
Subject: area of your e-mail message:
Data
You must enter this exactly as shown, with no spaces or extra words.
The first line of the text in your e-mail message must be as follows:
//AA
This tells the GLOBE computer that the lines that follow will contain your
measurements.
You will then need to enter your measurement values in the body of Email
message. Each line will contain the measurements for one protocol, measured at
one site, on one day. Your message can contain as many lines as you need. For
example, a single e-mail data entry message could contain many air temperature
and precipitation measurements from many different schools. The data entry
formats for each protocol is given in the next section.
After you have entered all of your measurements, the last line of your e-mail
message must be as follows:
//ZZ
This tells the computer that there are no more measurements in your message.
Below is an example of how your e-mail message should look based solely on what
we've just discussed:
TO: DATA@GLOBE.GOV
SUBJECT: DATA
//AA
<Measurement 1>
<Measurement 2>
<Measurement 3>
.
.
.
//ZZ
General Format for Measurements:
The measurements for each protocol are entered in the text of the message, each
on a separate line. Each line contains information about which protocol is being
reported, when and where the measurements were made, and what measurement values
were recorded. Each piece of information is separated by a space. The GLOBE
computer interprets the information in the line based on its position in the
line. We call each piece of information a field. The fields are separated by
spaces and the first field is the one on the left. The first four fields are
always required.
Field 1
The first field on a line is always a special character code for the protocol
being reported.
Field 2
The second field on a line is always the School ID of the school whose data is
being reported in that line. The latest version of Email Data Entry supports
two formats for the School ID field:
- The original-format of the school ID is an 8 character code that uniquely
defines each school to the GLOBE data system. This ID is maintained for
backward-compatibility, but is also generated for new organizations created
through the new GLOBE website. This ID can be looked up through the GLOBE
website, or provided by your Partner or Country Coordinator.
for example: ZZZZ1234
- The new GLOBE website assigns a numeric number to every organization in
GLOBE. If you prefer, you may use this ID instead of the old format.
However, you must prefix the numeric ID with 'ORG_ID:'. This organization
ID can be provided by your Partner or Country Coordinator.
for example: ORG_ID:1234567
Note that the ZZZZ1234 school ID is no longer supported in the latest version
of Email Data Entry, historically used for training and for demonstration
purposes.
Field 3
The third field on a line is always the site identifier or number. See later in
this document for instructions on how to define a site. As with the School ID,
the latest version of Email Data Entry supports two formats for the site
identifier/number field:
- Depending on the protocol report being submitted, the original-format of the
site identifier field is either a 6 character code (e.g. ATM-01), or a simple
number 1 through 999. If you have an older site that was not created with the
new GLOBE website, you may continue to use this format when specifying the
site identifier/number. Sites created with the new GLOBE website no longer
support the old site identifier/number format.
- The new GLOBE website assigns a numeric number (siteid) to every site created
for an organization. The numeric siteid of an organization's site can be
looked-up using the Data Entry application via the GLOBE website, or be
provided by your Partner or Country Coordinator. If using this format, you
may prefix the numeric siteid with 'SITE_ID:'.
e.g. SITE_ID:12345 or
12345
The siteid format will work for sites created with the old GLOBE website, and
*must* be used for sites created with the new GLOBE website.
Field 4
The fourth field on a line is always the date and time the measurements were
taken in Universal Time (UT). Unless specified otherwise, the format for the
date and time must be exactly as shown below:
YYYYMMDDHHmm
The first 4 characters are the year, the next 2 characters are the month, the
next two characters are the day, the next two characters are the hour, and the
last two characters are the minutes. You must use two characters for the month,
day, hour and minutes. If the month, day, hour, or minute values are under 10,
use a zero to make it two characters long. For example, if the measurement was
taken on March 8, 2010 at 1:05 UT, it would be written as:
201003080105
Remember that you must report the date and time that the measurement was taken,
not the date and time that it is being reported. You must also be sure that you
report the time in UT, also called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Remember that the
difference between UT and your local time will change if you switch between
standard and daylight savings time. Also note that the month is given before the
day. Exceptions to this rule occur for all Study Site (SL) definitions,
Study Site Meta Data reports and the Lilac and Bud Burst protocols,
where a date is asked for instead of the date and time. For these observations,
just the year, month, and day are reported, and the hour and minutes are
not reported. For these observations the format is written as:
YYYYMMDD
Remaining Fields:
The remaining fields on a line will contain the actual measured values for that
protocol and are described below. Your measurement entries may exceed one line
if you wish. Each field must always be filled with either a value. Sometimes
there will be a field defined for which you have no data because you did not do
that part of the protocol, or because it doesn't apply. In these cases, you must
place an "X" in that field so that the GLOBE computer will know that there is no
data to be entered for that field. However, many fields require a value. In
these cases, an "X" for that field will generate an error.
Comments:
For all protocols, the first four fields must be reported and cannot be reported
as missing. All notes after the field definitions that mention required fields
assume that the first four fields are always being reported.
The protocols listed below allow you to describe conditions that affected your
measurement. If you wish to include these comments, they must be written after
all the other fields have been filled in. For example, if you wish to make a
comment about an air temperature (ATM) observation, the comment would need to
start after the last field, which in this case is Field 7. If you do not have
any comments for this group of measurements, do not enter a missing value for it
( i.e. 'X' ). Do not write any of the special character codes within your
comments.
Reread the thread.
Years ago, when I had my PC, I asked Brian Hamilton ( Weather display) to write into his program so I could automatically update from the station both atmospheric and soil data. When the PC died and I went to the dark side, (Apple) I no longer could use his program for that.
You could ask him if he still has his code for doing that and would be willing to send it to you, so you could use it.
To become a member of Globe.gov you have to apply. Go as a scientific group. there are protocols but once you have your name and password for your station , you are good to go. Here is what I get daily from the Weatherlink site.