Suomi-net

Suomi-Net at Purdue

SuomiNet is a proposed network of GPS receivers to be located at universities and other locations to provide realtime atmospheric precipitable water vapor measurements and other geodetic and meteorological information. Support for installation of the network is provided by UNAVCO .

Suominet network (from Unavco)

Location of Suomi-net stations in the US (from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/SuomiNet/ )

Purdue is a registered participant in the Suomi-net program. We have received the GPS receiver and it should be installed soon at the Cherry Lane Meteorological Station run by the Purdue University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

trenching at the site

Trenching for the antenna cable at the geodetic monument at Cherry Lane Meteorological Site.

See also: 

Ware, R.H., D.W. Fulker, S.A. Stein, D.N. Anderson, S.K. Avery, R.D. Clark, K.K. Droegemeier, J.P. Kuettner, J.B. Minster, and S. Sorooshian, SuomiNet: A Real-Time National GPS Network for Atmospheric Research and Education, Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 81 (4), 677, 2000.