Instrument: Improved Meteorological Recorder

Instrument Short Name: IMET
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/102/)
Instrument Description:

An IMET Recorder is an instrument package that can be mounted on a ship or buoy to record mean weather data including air and sea-surface temperature, incoming short and long-wave radiation, precipitation, humidity, wind velocity and barometric pressure. Each sensor in the system communicates digitally and returns calibrated values to a central data recorder.

PI supplied instrument name: Improved Meteorological Recorder
Dataset-specific description

Sensors mounted on the bow mast at a height of 20 m above the waterline.

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