Bitch is back (Sir Elton John)
Friends, as I promised, I am back with another story about our participation in the next round of the modernization of the Roshydromet weather network. You can read about the first part of our adventures . Well, now - the long-awaited sequel.
In short, LANIT specialists delivered and installed 28 automated meteorological complexes (AMK), 73 automatic weather stations (AMS), 3 automated actinometric complexes (AAK). 100 AMK was retrofitted with an extended set of sensors.
The stunts were performed by stuntmen, not a single AMC was injured
Automated actinometric complex (AAC)
Advanced set sensors (visibility, solar radiation, sunshine duration and snow depth)
Precipitation weight sensor
More than 300 power supply kits have been delivered and installed, including those using solar panels and wind turbines of various capacities, more than 130 communication kits, including Iridium modems and VSAT terminals.
But I will disclose the details in the style of entertainment Internet resources, in accordance with the title of the article. We found in ourselves all the signs listed below that we are weather dependent. Familiarize yourself with them and take a closer look at yourself, your colleagues, relatives and friends - suddenly someone is also susceptible to this.
Warning sign 1. You are not afraid of the territorial spread and inaccessibility of work objects
The total number of work places is more than 420. Here they are clearly presented.
Separately, it is worth stopping at Yakutia. The terrain is not easy, most of the objects are accessible only by winter roads.
Yakutia. Winter. Cold Pole. Here are the words of our eyewitness, Evgeny Shipulin, who ruined a lot of time organizing these works:
βThe difficulty was not only in the fact that hard-to-reach stations (Yarolin, Toy Khaya, Dzhalinda, etc.) were located a thousand kilometers from the city of Yakutsk and any roads, but also in the fact that you can get to these stations only in winter period along frozen rivers (this is the winter road - ed.). Two all-wheel drive trucks drove to remote objects at once, insuring each other in case something was bombed. For example, cars made their way to the Yarolin station for 16 days, and not at all because Yandex.maps do not know where it is (try to look there yourself). And because of a strong snowstorm and places of zero visibility. The work had to be carried out at extreme sub-zero temperatures, for example, in the Oymyakonsky district at the Vostochnaya and Delyankir stations, the temperature reached -55 degrees.β
The ever-memorable Yarolin
The second interesting point is the Northern Sea Route. A considerable number of observation posts are accessible only with the help of this glorious vessel.
It even starred in the movie, in the movie "Icebreaker". The ship performed there under the pseudonym "Gromov".
Misha, thank you for taking everything and not spilling it!
Warning sign 2: You enjoy diving into the world of renewable energy
Now we know everything about it. As I mentioned earlier, the project provided for the installation of autonomous power supply kits, including at hard-to-reach stations.
Here's what happened. Here are 8 panels of 200 W:
Or this:
And even like this. Max power - 2 kW.
Warning sign 3. You drop everything and start manufacturing your own measuring systems.
We have been eyeing this story for a long time and nevertheless decided to make a kit that fully automates the observation of soil temperature.
The logo came out as it should. True, they were afraid of complaints about him because of sleep disturbances and nervous breakdowns from observers (the people there are mostly elderly), but somehow it worked out. Apparently, automation gives its results, and as a result, they do not fit the complexes at all.
The main difficulty is to correctly bubble deep thermometers. There are 7 of them, and the depths are 20, 40, 80, 120, 160, 240 and 320 cm.
It is important not just to bury them, but to ensure the possibility of painless extraction (and, most importantly, return to their original place) for periodic verification. Therefore, we had to make pipes inside the pipes, and inside the first pipes - to stretch the cable from the sensors. Like here:
Drawing element for clarity:
By the way, we notice a new disturbing trend behind us - our hands are itching to develop our own wind sensor.
Warning sign 4. You go through all the circles of metrological hell
Those who read the βmetrologicalβ rather than the βmeteorologicalβ the first time, receive a βcreditβ automatically.
When the first project started (2008), the level of our awareness of the world of measuring instruments was not dramatic. Let's use the usual picture for clarity:
And then followed the path of Gandhi with minor deviations.
- At first, you do not notice all the nuances of state regulation in this area - the rest of the world, except for the CIS countries, does not know about the concept of verification.
- Then you laugh at them - we sincerely did not understand why metal rulers should be checked.
- Then you fight with them - endlessly test measuring instruments, then make changes to existing descriptions of the SI type, verification methods, forms, stickers and, if they are amiss, nameplates.
- ??
- PROFIT! You ... win because you got involved, you know the whole process, how to draw and coordinate local verification schemes, you know the state standards and orders of Rosstandart and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Because it is already a pleasure for you to work with key test centers and institutes, and test centers do not stand aside and reciprocate.
An example for metrologists, try to find main goodies.
By the way, this year we are planning to extend the calibration interval up to 2 years.
Major masterpiece But there will be a story about this in a couple of years, when (exactly when, and not if) the hydrological network modernization project will be completed.
Warning sign 5. Out of control, you start the production of reference complexes
Having traveled the path from the previous point and having experienced all the inescapable pain of measuring instrument verification, you strive to make life easier for measuring instrument services and take on a project for the production and supply of mobile calibration laboratories.
During the project, vehicles were re-equipped into mobile laboratories, metrological tests of portable calibration kits (working standards) were carried out according to the following measurements: absolute pressure, temperature, humidity, air flow speed and direction, length). Vehicles, instruments and auxiliary equipment were delivered to 11 organizations of Roshydromet. Yes, and don't forget software for verifiers.
Our unconscious whispers to us to βwet Mantouxβ to start producing other standards, the standards for visibility sensors (namely, nephelometers) look especially tempting.
Warning sign 6. You are reaching bottom
Years later, we struck such :
So, there is nothing wrong there.
Warning sign 7. You thought about creating and accrediting your own metrological service
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The bottom line:
Now let's calculate the results:
If you have found more than four signs in yourself, come to us. After all, hydrometeorology is actually so beautiful and fascinating.
We already love you and are waiting for you.
Max is waiting a little separately, I had to use mad skillz
As a bonus for especially distinguished ones: your photo a la Mr. Stark can be placed on the website of a major system integrator in all seriousness =)
Here are the vacancies we currently have.
Source: habr.com