May Creek, Alaska

Remote Automated Flammability Weather Station—

Station installed and maintained by the PNW Wildland Fire Sciences Lab (PWFSL), AirFire Team, Seattle WA (400 N 34^th Street, Suite 201, Seattle, WA 98103. Phone 206-732-7800; web site www.airfire.org.

The weather station (removed in June 2005) operated daily for two years, showing weather and moisture regimes during permafrost melt out and the ensuing fire season. Hourly data from the station is available here in Excel spreadsheet format or upon request from the PWFSL as a CSV text file (comma delimited ASCII text format). In order to make most appropriate use of the data, a few pictures of the station are included below:

Figure 1. Overall station tripod view with datalogger and weather sensors attached. Fuel and soil sensors are out of picture to left.

Figure 2. Orange flags outline the location of the two soil moisture boxes after installation of the soil moisture and temperature sensors (second site visible in upper background)

Figure 3. Soil moisture plot A--flags mark outline of pit after installation of CS107 temperature probe and two CS615 water reflectometer sensors have been installed. Weather tripod in background.

Figure 4. Pit showing two CS615 water reflectometer sensors and temperature probe prior to replacing duff plug.