[2] The station was upgraded in the 1960s and the number of instruments increased, including a bare soil minimum thermometer, a cup counter anemometer and a Casella siphon rainfall recorder.
Late in 1969 a site was found on land east of the Whiteknights Lakes and adjoining Bridges Hall.
The earliest known meteorological observer was Mr James S Burgess, a technician in the Physics Department from 1918 until his retirement early in 1960.
In the early 1990s, a recording system based on Campbell data loggers was implemented for air temperature and surface fluxes.
A more extensive and permanent system (CORRDISP, for Corridor display) was developed in 1996, with the entire site re-cabled and standardised connections implemented.
CORRDISP provided five minute averages of weather observations displayed on a screen in the department foyer and online from 1996, one of the first sites to present data in this way.
Extensive research infrastructure for instrument development was established, particularly for micrometeorology, atmospheric electricity and around the use of meteorological radiosondes enhanced to provide more than the traditional thermodynamic quantities.