Israeli Meteorological Stations

Following are links to data from meteorological stations which do not belong to the Israel Meteorological Service.
There is another page for data from the Meteorological Service.
For a general description of the below data see README.

• The Laboratory of Synoptic Meteorology
  The Laboratory is part of the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and maintains a weather station on Mount Scopus. Professor Uri Dayan, head of the laboratory, has permitted ISA-MEIDA to provide the data collected by the station. We thank Ilan Levy for supplying the data.
  Description of the data (ASCII, 1KB)
  Mount Scopus every 10 minutes data, year 2000 (ASCII, 272KB/month)
  Mount Scopus every 10 minutes data, 2001 (ASCII, 272KB/month)
  Mount Scopus every 1 hours data, 2001 (ASCII, 15KB/month)
  Mount Scopus every 12 hours data, year 2000 (ASCII, 6KB/month)
  Mount Scopus every 12 hours data, 2001 (ASCII, 6KB/month)
  
  

• The Ben-Gurion University Department of Geography and Environmental Development weather station
  The fully automated station is located on the west side of the Beer-Sheva campus grounds, and has been in operation since summer 2000.
  The station is maintained by Prof. Dan Blumberg of Ben-Gurion University's Department of Geography and Environmental Development.
  We thank Prof. Blumberg and Mr. Amos Freund for supplying the data.
  Description of the data (ASCII, 1KB)
  Beer-Sheva every 20 minutes data, 2001 (ASCII, 260KB/month)
  Beer-Sheva every 20 minutes data, 2002 (ASCII, 260KB/month)
  
  Latest Beer-Sheva data on-line:
  Weather charts from the station (requires Java)
  Table of previous week's measurements (around 150KB)
  Table of previous 24 hours measurements
  

• The Ben-Gurion University Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics Weather Station
  The fully automated station is located at the Sde-Boker campus, at 30 degrees 51 minutes North, 34 degrees 57 minutes East, 480 m above sea level, and has been in operation since 1995.
  The station is operated by the Meteorology Group, which is headed by Prof. Avraham Zangvil.
  We thank Prof. Zangvil and Mr. David Klepach for supplying the data.
  The weather station site provides a weather data archive in Excel files. The data are given every 10 minutes and include air temperature, soil temperature, pressure, relative humidity, radiation intensity, rain, and wind speed.
  There is also a rainfall archive, where the data is in ASCII (html) format.
  There is also a picture of the station, and an on-line current weather report.
  

• Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture Weather Station
  The fully automated station is located at the Rehovot campus, and is operated by Prof. Yitzhak Mahrer and Mr. Meir Margolin.
  The data is read every 10 seconds and averaged hourly using winter Israeli local time (GMT+2 hours). A list of instruments and photos is provided.
  The weather data is in ASCII format, from 1990 to 2002. The data is given once per hour and includes temperature, humidity, radiation intensity, rain, and wind speed.
  

• The Tel-Aviv University Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences weather station
  The fully automated station is located on the roof of the Kaplun building, on the east side of the Tel-Aviv University campus. The station has been in operation since th 17th of January 2001.
  The station is maintained by Mr. David Shtivelman of the Cloud and Precipitation Physics Laboratory
  We thank Mr. Shtivelman for supplying the data.
  Description of the data (ASCII, 1KB)
  2001 data every 30 minutes (ASCII)
  2002 data every 30 minutes (ASCII)
  2003 data every 30 minutes (ASCII)
  
  The latest Tel-Aviv data is shown as an image of the station screen on the ISA-MEIDA Forecast Center under "On-line Meteorological Data".
  

• Kibutz Maabarot Weather Station
  This weather station has been in operation since 1940 at Kibutz Maabarot between Netania and Hadera at latitude 32° 21' 58" N, longitude 34° 54' 14" E. The station elevation is 20 meters.
  Mr. Uri Shalem is in charge of the station, and has generously made the data for all years available on the internet.
  The station is also a member of the Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station Ring.
  This is a list of sites which post weather data gathered by a Davis Vantage Pro weather stations or have information regarding the Davis Vantage Pro weather stations.
  There are also general Weather Webrings, which are dedicated to storm spotting, weather stations, and weather information sites.
  

• Boaz Nechemia's Jerusalem Weather Station
  This private meteorological station has been in operation since 28 November 2001, and provides on-line data (Internet Explorer only) and also historical record of weather in Jerusalem (latitude 31° 48' 00" N, longitude 35° 12' 00" E, elevation 770 meters).
  The station is also a member of the Davis Vantage Pro Weather Station Ring.
  As is the station for Kibutz Maabarot above.
  We thank Mr. Nechemia for giving ISA-MEIDA permission to make the full data from his station available on-line .
  Description of the Data (ASCII,1 KB)
  Year 2001 data
  Year 2002 data
  The data is either every 15 minutes data for every month (approximately 340KB each file) for example April 2002 data, or daily summary files containing daily means and extremes (approximately 4 KB for each file), for example December 2001 .
  

• Ronen Slifkin's Jerusalem Weather Station
  This private meteorological station has been in operation since 1995, and provides on-line data. The previous site with historical summaries no longer operates.
  The station (latitude 31° 48' N, longitude 35° 12' E, elevation 720 meters) is a member of the Private Weather stations in Israel Ring.
  We thank Mr. Slifkin for giving ISA-MEIDA permission to make the full data from his station available on-line .
  Description of the Data (ASCII,1 KB)
  Year 2000 data
  Year 2001 data
  Year 2002 data
  The data is daily data with every month in a separate file (approximately 1.7KB each file) for example April 2000 data.

• Jordan Valley College weather station
  The Jordan Valley College automatic station site has data since February 2000. The data itself can be seen by English browsers, but the explanation file is in Hebrew.
  The College also offers data about the water level in the Kinneret since 1969. This site, however, is exclusively in Hebrew.
  

• Ministry of Agriculture weather stations
  The Ministry of Agriculture has a network of meteorological stations. The stations of this network are shown on a map and a list of them is given.
  Data from each station is available (in Hebrew), also from an archive, back to the year 2001.
  The data includes daily minimum and maximum or average of radiation, air temperature, soil temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and more.
  The interface is in Hebrew only.

• MOP Zafon weather stations
  The Northern R&D - Israel ("MOP Zafon" in Hebrew) organization has a network of 13 weather stations, whose data can be accessed on-line.
  The data goes back to January 2000, and includes radiation, temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and more. However the interface is in Hebrew only.

• Municipal Association for the Environment - Ashdod District (Hebrew only)
  The Ashdod Association for the Environment has an on-line system for reporting air pollution. The system shows only the general range of the Air Quality Index for a station, that is if the pollution is low, high, dangerous, etc.

• Municipal Association for the Environment - Ashkelon District
  The Ashkelon Association for the Environment has an on-line system for reporting air pollution. The locations on the map appear in Hebrew only, though the values are in English. The system shows only the general range of the Air Quality Index for a station, that is if the pollution is low, high, dangerous, etc.

• Municipal Association for the Environment - Hadera District (Hebrew only)
  The Hadera Association for the Environment has an on-line system for reporting air pollution. There is a separate map for the location of the monitoring stations, and an on-line form for requesting data. The system gives numerical reports, but is very slow.

• Municipal Association for the Environment - Haifa District
  Haifa District Municipal Association for the Environment (HDMAE) has built and is operating an advanced Air Quality Monitoring Network consisting of 13 monitoring stations connected to the Association Control Center. In addition, HDMAE is collecting air quality data through the equipment of its mobile station.
  The data itself is no longer available for downloading except as an air quality index table .
  There is also a on-line system for current data .

• Data Collected by Dr. Milu Rosenberg
  Dr. Milu Rosenberg has collected rainfall data in the 20th century for Israel and the Israel region.
  This data is available by request, for research purposes only.
  Please write us at nasa@vortex.tau.ac.il .

• There are other lists of Israeli Meteorological Stations .