Weather data from the Macquarie University, Fauna Park Weather Station

Dataset of the Barron Bee Lab weather station (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wing gust speed, wind direction, rainfall, barometric pressure) logged every 10 min from a station located at the Macquarie University Fauna Park, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Methods
The Fauna Park Weather Station was established in 2023 by Théotime Colin at 211 Culloden Rd, Marsfield NSW 2122 (-33.768099, 151.112814; 33°46'05.2"S 151°06'46.1"E). The weather station is located on a grass patch surrounded by flight cages (polytunnels) on three sides (approximately 6m away from the ones north-east and south-west and 4m away from the one south-east of the weather station).

A long metallic pole was burried 70cm deep into the ground and sensors were attached directly to the pole. The system is based on a HOBO (Onset : https://www.onsetcomp.com/products/software/hoboware) U30 data logger (U30-NRC-000-10-S100 : HOBO U30, with 10 Smart Sensor capability) powered by an extra-large solar panel (SOLAR-15W, 15 Watts for HOBO U30 and RX3000 (A1-13AA)). The following HOBO sensors were connected to this logger:

S-WCF-M003 : Davis Wind Speed & Direction Smart Sensor (A1-13A)
S-THC-M002 : Smart Temp/RH Sensor (12-bit) w/ 2m Cable (A1-11E)
S-RGF-M002 : Davis® 0.2 mm Rain Gauge Smart Sensor (A1-11AA)
S-BPB-CM50 : Weatherproof Barometric Pressure Smart Sensor with 50 cm cable (A1-11A)

The temperature and RH sensor was attached hanging downwards under the solar panel to shield it from the sun.

Data are logged every 10 minutes.