Share the Shelter

Kurzfassung

Featuring a selection of my instrument station photos from around the world (10 countries, 3 continents), the piece is a tribute to the old-fashioned Stevenson screen that encloses meteorological instruments. The Stevenson screen protects the instruments against precipitation and direct heat radiation, while still allowing air to circulate, thereby providing a standardised environment for measurements. Some stations are small, some pretty, some worn-down, some in the snow, in the sun, in the city, at the sea-side or in the mountains. As diverse and distant as these stations may be, they all hold together to collect data for improving global weather forecasts and for keeping a record of Earth's climate. This is represented through the register card in the background used by thermo-hygrographs to record temperature and humidity. Recently, modern automatic stations started to replace the Stevenson screen, and this could lead to its extinction.