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Guides to choosing instruments and preparing data collection, based on applications in the catalogue.
Follow via RSSA tipping-bucket rain gauge loses rain to wind and to its own mechanics, and the second loss grows with intensity. What four peer-reviewed studies say about installation height, dynamic calibration and maintenance.
AEMET expects a week of full summer, with little rain until at least Friday 25th, and an autumn probably warmer than normal. Four official signals and, for each, what to measure and with what care, starting with the rain gauge.
Three articles on what makes a number measured at one point trustworthy, three European signals from the week with their sources, and what is due in the coming days.
A study published in May 2026 calibrated low-cost capacitive sensors in the laboratory and then moved them to real plots. The laboratory curve drifted in the field, and a single reference measurement on site recovered much of the accuracy.
On 15 September 2026 the European Union launched Copernicus Sentinel-3C. What it observes from 800 km, why land surface temperature is not air temperature, and what to log at your own point.
The shield around the sensor can contribute more error than the sensor itself. What two peer-reviewed studies say about natural ventilation and forced aspiration, and what to document so the series is usable.
Copernicus issued its August assessment statement on 10 September 2026: a record summer in western Europe, with anomalies referenced to 1991 to 2020. What those figures say, and do not say, about a series of your own.
On 10 September, Copernicus published its August 2026 bulletins: exceptionally dry surface soils and river flows well below average across much of Europe. What those maps support deciding, and what they do not.
AEMET, IPMA, Copernicus, EFFIS and the European Drought Observatory agree: summer carries on across the Iberian Peninsula this week. Four official signals and, for each, what is worth measuring and with what care.
