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| Name: Deepangkar Sarkar Affiliation: IIA, Bengaluru Conference ID: ASI2019_151 Title : Measurement of Meteorological Parameters for the National Large Solar Telescope at the Pongong Lake Site Authors and Co-Authors : Deepangkar Sarkar, Prabhu K., Ravindra B., Dipankar Banerjee Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Instrumentation and Techniques Abstract : Measurement of seeing is important for any astronomical site and has to be carried out before putting any large telescope. The meteorological parameters such as air temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction are an important parameters to study which will cause the turbulence near the ground level and affect the seeing at the site. To determine how these parameters change during the day, over the seasons and years, an automatic weather station (AWS) was installed in the incursion site of Pangong lake in Merak village. The Automatic Weather Station (AWS) is one of the site characterization instruments which collects meteorological data such as temperature, wind speed, wind direction, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure. The instrument is operational since 2009 at the incursion site. In this poster, we present the results of wind speed, direction, variations in temperature and relative humidity change over the day and seasons for the years 2009-2018. A comparison of these parameters with other best solar sites will also be presented. |