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


Stationary Weather Stations

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

Mobile Weather Stations

Name Subproject Start Date End Date
MS-B2-1 B2,Z3 2021-11-16 2023-08-28
MS-B2-2 B2,Z3 2022-08-25 2023-08-17
MS22 Z2,Z3 2022-02-10 2023-03-24
MSA1 B1,Z3 2023-04-10 2024-03-20
MSA2 B1,Z3 2023-04-10 2024-03-20
MSC1 B1,Z3 2022-03-21 2023-03-01
MSC2 B1,Z3 2022-03-14 2022-09-17
MSP1 B2,Z3 2023-08-20 2023-11-26
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