Weather Data

This site comprises all meteorological and soil measurements achieved from 15 weather stations in the Atacama desert, which were installed by the CRC1211. The measurement sites are located in three different transects from the coast to the hillslopes of the Andes each consisting of four to five stations.
All data is freely available and uses the following licence:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Intern. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Please use the following citation for all stations (each station can also be cited individually):
Hoffmeister, Dirk (2018): Meteorological and soil measurements of the permanent weather stations in the Atacama desert, Chile. CRC1211 Database (CRC1211DB). DOI: 10.5880/CRC1211DB.1


Weather Stations

ID Type Category Name Startdate Transect
11 basis stationary Caleta Loa 2017-10-01 center
12 basis stationary Rio Loa 2017-04-03 center
13 master stationary Cerros de Calate 2017-03-01 center
14 basis stationary Salar de Llamara 2017-09-22 center
15 basis stationary Quebrada de Mani 2017-09-25 center
20 basis stationary Alto Patache 2018-03-05 north
21 basis stationary Caleta Junin 2018-03-06 north
22 basis stationary Cerro San Antonio 2018-03-09 north
23 master stationary Cerro Constancia 2018-03-09 north
24 basis stationary Quebrada de Aroma 2018-03-10 north
25 basis stationary Quebrada de Soga 2018-03-09 north
31 basis stationary Caleta Sur de Punta Grande 2019-02-28 south
32 basis stationary Quebrada Matancilla 2018-03-23 south
33 master stationary Quebrada Grande 2018-03-23 south
34 basis stationary Cerro Campana 2018-03-14 south
40 basis stationary Dolores 2022-03-21 center Salar Grande
41 basis stationary Salar Grande 2021-11-20 center Salar Grande
42 basis stationary Sierra de Lagunas 2022-03-23 center Salar Grande
44 basis stationary Chipana 2021-11-27 south
1 N/A mobile 21033214 2022-03-21 N/A
2 N/A mobile 21033207 2022-08-25 N/A
4 N/A mobile 21033213 2022-02-10 N/A
5 N/A mobile 21033208 2021-11-16 N/A