Parque Metropolitano Crane, 60m_Wind speed & Direction

Wind speed and direction, interval average/max/min Parque Natural Metropolitano (PNM) crane station. Location: 8.994410 -79.543000 Established in 1995, the PNM canopy crane is located at the North Western edge of Panama City, at the eastern edge of the Parque Natural Metropolitano (Metropolitan Nature Park) and is surrounded by 80-year old, lowland semi-deciduous forest. The crane was 42 meters tall. The original monitoring station was located at approximately 25m. This level was about 1/3 the way from the canopy. In 2021 the original crane was dismantled and replaced with a new, 68m crane in Jan. 2022. The original met. station was located on the side of the tower at approximately 25m. The combination of a lower capability anemometer, and mid-canopy location of the station resulted in wind data that were of poor quality and unrepresentative of the conditions at the top of the canopy. This anemometer was abandoned in 2008. A new anemometer was installed close to the top (65m) of the new crane on March of 2022. Historical datasets can be located here: https://smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Parque_Metropolitano_Crane_65m_Wind_speed_Direction/19795387