The Getty Center climate monitoring station is a 33-foot solar-powered tower located on a northern hilltop of the Getty Center property (Elevation: 1091 ft, Latitude: 34-05'12"N, Longitude: 118-28'46"W). It is similar to environmental monitoring stations that the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) has installed as part of art conservation projects around the world. Data collected from this station is included in the Southern California Co-Operative Weather Station Network, which is managed by the National Weather Service (NWS) and operated in collaboration with the Geography Department of California State University of Northridge (CSUN). In operation since January 1999 and certified by the NWS, this station collects vital climatic data for the western region of the Los Angeles area.
Measures of temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, and rainfall are taken every 60 seconds; the data is sent via spread spectra radio waves to the Environmental Laboratory of the GCI at the Getty Center. This data is then automatically forwarded via the internet to the NWS for archiving and publishing at the National Climate Data Center, and to the Geography Department of CSUN for posting on its website.
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