Road siting experiment

This dataset comes from an experiment performed at the Italian National Metrology Institute (INRiM) in the framework of EMPIR project MeteoMet 2. The purpose of the experiment was to evaluate the effect of the presence of a road in near-surface temperature data. The dataset is composed by 2 files, with identical structure and datafields.

The experiment was laid out as a series of 7 measurement points, at progressively longer distances from a local 2-laned road in the countryside around Turin, Italy. The header of the files is here described:

"Data e ora": Date and time

TE1101: air temperature sensor #1, distance from the road= 1 m

TE1102: air temperature sensor #2, distance from the road= 1 m

TE1201: air temperature sensor, distance from the road= 5 m

TE1301: air temperature sensor, distance from the road= 10 m

TE1401: air temperature sensor, distance from the road= 20 m

TE1501: air temperature sensor, distance from the road= 30 m

TE1601: air temperature sensor, distance from the road= 50 m

TE1701: air temperature sensor, distance from the road= 100 m

 MT1302: relative humidity sensor, distance from the road= 10 m

MT1502: relative humidity sensor, distance from the road= 30 m

XM1505: solar radiation, distance from the road= 30 m

ZT1503: wind direction, distance from the road= 30 m

ST1504: wind speed, distance from the road= 30 m

Road_siting_experiment_INRIM.csv is the data collected during the experiment, with measurement points located at the distances indicated in the previous list.

Road_siting_colocation_INRiM.csv is the data collected during a second phase of the experiment, when the sensors had all been rearranged in the same spot (co-location) in order to evaluate the behaviour of the sensors while exposed to the same environmental conditions.