weather station Articles
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Lufft weather sensors are used where others failed
The ski lift in Visperterminen Rothorli leads from the village through pinewoods to the 2300m high winter sports region. On August 15, 2018 a Lufft WS600 weather station was installed and put into operation. Its main task is to provide the lift staff and piste team with climate data in winter. The data helps with important decisions, such as whether the lift can be opened at all in strong winds ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Summer hydroclimatology of an extensive low-gradient wetland: Polar Bear Pass, Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canada
Polar Bear Pass (PBP) (75°40′N, 98°30′W) is considered a critical wetland area for migratory birds, caribou and muskox. Little is known of its climatology and hydrology. Here we evaluate both the short-term and long-term summer climatic record for this wetland. A 10 m high automatic weather station (AWS) was established here 27 years ago, and in 2007 this centrally located AWS was supplemented by ...
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A weather station for your camping holiday
A weather station in a vehicle? Might sound strange but when you go on a camping holiday, a weather station can be exactly what you need when making decisions about where to go next. Imagine you want to travel around in a camper or trailer. Those who like spending their holidays in more than one place instead of booking a package holiday and staying at the same hotel or hostel every night will ...
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Weather monitoring network equipped with Lufft wind sensor VENTUS - Case Study
In 2010 we won a tender for 30 ultrasonic anemometers (as a part of meteorological weather stations). The National Weather Service of Mexico (CONAGUA) wanted to build weather stations in the southwest of Mexico (States of Chiapas and Tabasco). According to the customer, Ventus-UMB is a very robust, yet precise sensor with a very good price / performance ratio. Moreover, data transmission via ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Learning by doing: a Lufft weather sensor for a special school project
Thanks to the financial support of generous donors, the Integrated Comprehensive School in Ludwigshafen-Edigheim (IGS Edigheim) was able to acquire a professional weather sensor from Lufft. A project group guided by informatics teacher Pascal Deneaux was able to recruit BASF, a local bank, a plumber company and several parents as sponsors. One of the challenges at the IGS Edigheim is a six-month ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Introduction to JXCT weather station
Background ~A weather station is a facility equipped with instruments to measure various atmospheric conditions and weather elements. The instruments are used to collect data that can be used to predict weather patterns, monitor climate change, and provide information to farmers, pilots and other professionals who rely on weather information. The Weather Station 900 is a state-of-the-art weather ...
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Weather Philippines - Weather warning service with Lufft WS502-UMB - Case Study
WeatherPhilippines Foundation, Inc. (WPF) aims to deliver critical and accurate weather information to aid local governments, communities, and individuals in disaster preparedness and timely response to variable weather conditions. WPF has deployed more than 400 Automated Weather Stations (AWS) across the country, and intends to install 600 more with the help of private sponsors and site ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Weather forecasting under extreme conditions in Russia - Megafon Russia - Case Study
The National Weather Service in Russia has about 1.800 weather stations which are distributed over the entire area of Russia. That's not enough to cover weather extremes everywhere. So the Russian National Weather Service wants to create a compression ratio of measurement points. In order to achieve the budget targets, our customer decided to buy our all-in-one sensor WS600-UMB. According to ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Tech-Tipp: OTT netDL Configuration with several SDI-12 Sensors
All new OTT sensors provide a bus-capable interface, either SDI-12 or the RS 485 based OTT SDI . The special Master Modul of the OTT netDL enables the connection of several sensors to every bus (SDI-12 or OTT SDI). Connect for example an OTT Pluvio² and a Lufft WS510 sensor to one OTT netDL and you get a compact, efficient weather station. Just talk to your personal contact at OTT Hydromet ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Why do you need weather stations for weather forecasting
The weather station is your nearest source of real-time weather changes. They should be used in conjunction with different weather models and sensors when forecasting the weather. Learn all about weather stations in this article.Weather stations definition The weather stations or meteorological stations are facilities for weather observation and collecting different weather data together with ...
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Italian Company, RAMSAT, Pairs Weather Stations With WebCams - Case Study
For more fantastic images of RainWise installations, see the Ramsat/RainWise Facebook page, ' Ramsat Rainwise It.' Founded in 1993, Ramsat has quickly become a point of reference for consulting and professional photographic supplies webcam and integrated systems. In 2003, the company made the first webcam camera with automatic transmission via GPRS, which is distinguished by the update feature, ...
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TAWES – The Austrian National Meteorological Measuring Network - Case study
In 2005 the Austrian meteorological institute – ZAMG launched a tender for the modernization of the Austrian meteorological measuring network. Totally this so called TAWES-network comprises actually nearly 300 fully automatic weather stations. After an international tender Logotronic was awarded with this contract. ...
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Italian Company, RAMSAT, Pairs Weather Stations With WebCams - Case Study
Founded in 1993, Ramsat has quickly become a point of reference for consulting and professional photographic supplies webcam and integrated systems. In 2003, the company made the first webcam camera with automatic transmission via GPRS, which is distinguished by the update feature, every 20 ', the portal www.meteoappennino.it, with spectacular images of Mount Carrier and its old town, ...
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Weather stations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi - Case study
For real-time meteorological data at the XXII Winter Olympic and XI Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi from February–March 2014, 29 specialized automatic meteorological stations (AMS) were installed in the areas close to the Olympic sport venues from 2010-2013. This was in addition to the regular observation network that provided data for the weather now-casting system supplied and operated ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Wind measurement with high speed train operations, China - Case Study
The compact weather stations WS500-UMB and WS600-UMB from Lufft provides reliable wind measurements along high speed rail lines in China. As the trains travel at speeds of up to 400 km/h, wind speed-dependent control of train speeds is essential. For this purpose, wind measurement stations like the WS500-UMB and WS600-UMB are installed at 5 km intervals along the track. Measurement data are ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Russian weather service relies on Lufft weather sensors - Case Study
On the recommendation of the Russian Lufft partner Meteo-Sensor, the Hydro-Meteorological Center of Russia in Moscow recently installed an automatic weather station equipped with the Lufft compact weather sensors WS100 and WS500. The weather data delivered by the weather sensors are publicly available on the Center’s homepage. Here many inhabitants of Moscow inform themselves about the ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Road Weather Information System network (RWIS) in Russia / Motorway M5 Ural - Case Study
The Russian route M5 (also known as the Ural Highway) is a major trunk road running across a distance of 1879 km from Moscow to the Ural Mountains. In a long-term project 98 road weather information stations (RWIS) will be installed along this motorway by our partner OJSC Moscow Roads. 42 RWIS stations are already in operation. Every station includes one of our non-invasive road condition sensor ...
By OTT HydroMet
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Freeze thaw cycles in Toronto, Canada in a changing climate
Freeze thaw cycles are examined in Toronto Canada. Using data from 1960 to 1989 for three Toronto area weather stations, trends in freeze thaw activity, the relationship to mean monthly temperature and projections of freeze thaw activity are examined. For downtown Toronto the annual frequency of freeze thaw cycles is decreasing significantly, most notably in the shoulder months of October and ...
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Measurement of fine dust in combination with Lufft weather sensors - Case Study
Our compact weather stations are part of monitoring stations for measurement of fine dust, manufactured by our customers Grimm Aerosol Technik GmbH and PALAS. The fine dust measurement stations have proved a success the world over. The Lufft compact weather stations WS300-UMB, WS500-UMB, WS600-UMB are used for monitoring of climate data. Thanks to the Lufft sensors the stations will not only ...
By OTT HydroMet
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High School gets Hands-on Learning with MK-lll - Case Study
The Cazenovia Board of Education last week accepted two donations of technology equipment worth more than $170,000 that will give Cazenovia High School technology students unique opportunities to construct and maintain both a weather station on the high school roof and an automated switch manufacturing work cell once used by Marquardt Switches. Once the switch machine is situated and ...
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