Overview of the Saxmundham Weather Station

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  • Description: Rothamsted commenced management of the farm at Woburn in the 1920's and the first meteorological records date back to 1928. Temperature, rainfall, sunshine, wind force, wind direction, cloud cover, barometric pressure, visibility, relative humidity and soil temperature under grass have been measured since 1928. Wind speed and wind run and days with hail/thunder/snow/fog have been measured since 1968, radiation measurements started in 1981 and rainfall duration has been measured since 1988. The weather station was automated in 1999, with a range of sensors attached to an automatic data logger. Hourly data from 2004 are available from the e-RA Curators.

    The mean annual temperature (1971-2000) was 9.6 °C. Annual rainfall averages 649mm (1971-2000).

    Real-time hourly, daily and yearly weather charts for Woburn are available on-line over 28 days or 365 days (rolling) via the Rothamsted Environmental Change Network (ECN) pages

  • Date Start: 1928
  • Date End: Ongoing
  • Recording: Daily at 0900GMT
  • Automatic data recording began: 1st July 1999
  • Manual recording finished: 1st July 1999
  • Address: Mill Road, Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, MK43 OXF, United Kingdom
  • OS Grid Ref: SP 96440 36047
  • Latitude/Longitude: 52.0145 N -0.5962 E
  • Altitude: 89 m asl
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Key Contacts

  • Andy Gregory

  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Organisation: Rothamsted Research
  • Address: West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom

  • Tony Scott

  • Role: Data Manager
  • Organisation: Rothamsted Research
  • Address: West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom

  • Sarah Perryman

  • Role: Data Manager
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0056-2754
  • Organisation: Rothamsted Research
  • Address: West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom

  • Margaret Glendining

  • Role: Data Manager
  • ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6466-4629
  • Organisation: Rothamsted Research
  • Address: West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom

Funding

  • The e-RA database, including the published datasets generated from it, is part of the Rothamsted Long-Term Experiments - National Bioscience Research Infrastructure (RLTE-NBRI), which also includes the Long-Term Experiments, the Rothamsted Sample Archive and Rothamsted's environmental monitoring activities including the weather stations and its role in the UK Environmental Change Network.
  • The RLTE-NBRI is funded by UK Research and Innovation - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UKRI-BBSRC) under award BBS/E/RH/23NB0007 (2023-2028). The RLTE-NBRI is also supported by the Lawes Agricultural Trust.
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For further information and assistance, please contact the e-RA curators, Sarah Perryman and Margaret Glendining using the e-RA email address: era@rothamsted.ac.uk