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Meteorological Monitoring

York River Meteorological Monitoring

As weather conditions have a strong influence on water quality conditions in estuaries, meteorological data compliment the reserve’s water quality data and serve as an important component of the reserve’s System Wide Monitoring Program (SWMP). The reserve maintains meteorological monitoring stations at the Taskinas Creek (August 1997) and Sweet Hall Marsh (established September 1998) components of the Reserve.  Measured parameters include air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, photosynthetic active radiation (PAR), barometric pressure, wind speed/direction. Real-time delivery of meteorological data is available through NOAA's Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (https://hads.ncep.noaa.gov/) and the quality controlled data for Taskinas Creek can be downloaded through the National Estuarine Research Reserve System's Central Data Management Office (CDMO).  

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Sweet Hall Marsh MET Station
 
Listing of Stations:
 
Station:  Taskinas Creek (CBNERR-VA)
Location: James City County, VA.    37.414N   76.713W
Station IDs:  NESDIS – 3B009218;  NWS – YRSV2
Established: 1997
Status:  Operational
Measured Physical Parameters:  Air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR).
Measured Chemical Parameters:  None
Realtime Data Access
Archive Data Access
 
Station:  Sweet Hall Marsh (CBNERR-VA)
Location: King William County, VA.    37.569N   76.889W
Station IDs:  NESDIS – 3B0116F6;  NWS – SHXV2
Established:  1998
Status:  Operational
Measured Physical Parameters:  Air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, wind speed and direction, barometric pressure and photosynthetic active radiation (PAR).
Measured Chemical Parameters:  None
Realtime Data Access
Archive Data Access:  currently not available