General interests

More general interests include climatology, Earth sciences, remote sensing,applied and historical meteorology, including instruments and observations, with special interests in astronomy and planetary science. Edward is actively interested in a possible solar-climatic link - not all global warming is likely man-made! An active meteorological observer, Edward maintains a Davis Vantage Pro 2 Plus FARS automatic weather station or AWS (following the destruction by a lightning strike in June 2009 of his old R&D Instromet AWS) at Norwood, north Sheffield as part of the Climatological Observers Link (COL) network.

Davis weather station live screen view:

http://www.weatherlink.com/user/arcturus2009/

Meteorological data archived from this station on Weather Underground:

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ISOUTHYO14&wuSelect=PWS

All sensors, including precipitation, continuously log data at 1-minute intervals, with nearly complete records obtained since December 2005. Weather data for Sheffield Norwood are published monthly by the Climatological Observers Link (see link, right). Recent data are available as downloads (see link, right); please contact Edward if you find these data useful and/or for more details.