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Manage your critical road weather conditions
Variable weather conditions and the increased frequency of extreme events present a significant challenge to those responsible for keeping roads safe and passable. Discover our Road Weather Solutions for Highways and Local Authorities! Accurate road weather information is the key to efficient decision making, and monitoring systems are dependent on the ability of sensors in or above the ...
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WMO weather information system improves access to data
An international information system designed to improve and expand the exchange of data on weather, climate and water will help boost food security around the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The UN agency, which launched the system last month (31 January), said it would improve access to meteorological observations and products for stakeholders including the ...
By SciDev.Net
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This Vantage Pro2 plus sees Blue Skies and sunshine all winter
Just to offer a little counter-balance to the snowy scenes above, how about this wintry setup? This Vantage Pro2 Plus has no snow worries - it's hurricanes that scare it! It is on the roof of the Sea Club Ocean Resort, right on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Michael Man, lucky enough to manage the hotel, told us the Sea Club Ocean Resort is the only budget hotel on the ocean and is ...
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All About Flight Safety: Visit us at the World ATM Congress in Madrid
The World ATM Congress is the world’s largest exhibition and conference for international air traffic management (ATM) with 8,500 visitors last year. This year the event, organised by the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) together with the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), will take place for the 7th time. The venue will be IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, with 21,000 m² ...
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FTS` AirTalk Takes Flight
Changes in weather conditions can seriously affect fire behavior. For anyone managing a wildfire or conducting a prescribed burn, the need for up-to-the-minute weather data is critical. Accurate real-time information is essential for minimizing the risk of property loss and helps keep fire crews and the public safe. FTS has launched AirTalk, enabling fixed or portable RAWS to ...
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Mobile masts used in African weather monitoring
Africa hopes to plug gaps in its weather and climate data by mounting automatic weather stations onto its extensive network of mobile phone masts. Less than 200 of its weather stations meet UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) standards — compared to several thousand in Europe — leaving many smallholder farmers without forecasts. The vast majority of farmers in Africa practise rain-fed ...
By SciDev.Net
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USAID, NOAA, and World Meteorological Organization announce new Weather-Ready Nations Initiative
his weekend, at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction the U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the World Meteorological Organization announced the creation of Weather-Ready Nations, a new program to improve the understanding of high impact weather, water, and climate events. The devastating effects of extreme events ...
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New Transport Brochure from Biral on Meteorological Sensors
Biral’s range of visibility and present weather sensors are renowned for their quality and precision measurement of conditions in the road and rail environment. Each system can be tailored to precise needs and provides data to the forecast provider. Biral equipment provide present weather information in addition to visibility allowing intelligent transport systems (ITS) to not only ensure ...
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Ice loss sends Alaskan temperatures soaring
If you doubt that parts of the planet really are warming, talk to residents of Barrow, the Alaskan town that is the most northerly settlement in the US. In the last 34 years, the average October temperature in Barrow has risen by more than 7°C − an increase that, on its own, makes a mockery of international efforts to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2°C above ...
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Biral Releases New Brochure for Aviation Market
Available to request directly from the company, or download from their website, the Biral Aviation brochure displays Biral’s best-selling forward scatter meters for the market, including the VPF and SWS Visibility and Present Weather Sensor ranges and how they can be used to aid the safety of airports, whilst complying with the stringent needs of ICAO. Biral recognises the importance of ...
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WeatherBug App Debuts for Nook Tablets
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® and the operator of the largest weather monitoring, lightning detection and climate observation networks, announces the debut of its WeatherBug mobile app for Nook by Barnes & Noble. With WeatherBug for Nook, users can tap into the world’s largest weather network from 35,000 locations, including real-time weather data from 10,000 ...
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Shifts in Pacific warming could increase cyclone activity
New research indicates that there has been a geographical shift in warming in the Pacific Ocean in the last fifty years which could cause changes in cyclones and weather events. Tropical cyclones involve large and rapid circulations of air, which are often accompanied by destructive weather, especially hurricanes, and have devastating effects. The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change1 ...
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Advanced RWIS Drives Safer Journeys on Korean Roads
Black ice stands as one of the most formidable hazards on the road. In a proactive approach to mitigate this risk on its mountainous highways, South Korea is integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) to enhance safety measures. Throughout Korea, highways are influenced by topography and altitude, making it challenging to assess road ...
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Russia – Korea – Mexico: Success Stories of the NIRS31 Road Sensor
Launched in 2008, the NIRS31 was Lufft’s first non-contact road weather sensor that allows easy installation without road closures and costly construction work. It is therefore particularly suitable for the use on bridges where the installation of embedded ground probes entails structural risks. As bridges are usually exposed to stronger winds and the cooling and evaporation of the ...
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UN seeks to restore Haiti’s weather services to prevent further disasters
With the rainy season and its flood risks due in April and hurricanes shortly after, Haiti urgently needs operational meteorological services to forestall further disasters after last month’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations weather agency reported today. “In order to prevent potential disasters related to the natural hazards, which the country is prone to, the capacity of Haiti to ...
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WeatherBug Announces Advanced Mobile Storm Tracking with Lightning Alerts for iPhone App
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of the popular WeatherBug® brand and the operator of the largest weather monitoring, lightning detection and climate observation networks, introduces My Storm Tracker for its WeatherBug Elite mobile app on iPhone. Specifically designed to inform and alert mobile phone users to approaching lightning and potentially dangerous ...
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WeatherBug Unveils App for Windows 8
Earth NetworksSM, the owner of WeatherBug® products and services and operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, launches WeatherBug for Windows 8, providing the personalized at-a-glance weather conditions, pinpoint neighborhood-level forecasts and severe weather alerts users around the globe need to stay safe and informed. WeatherBug for Windows 8 brings a ...
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Modernization of the ITS on the Highway of Querétaro, Mexico
Our Mexican Partner Ingeniería Geofísica y Sistema S.A. de C.V. (IGS) recently won a project of the Communication and Transport Secretary (SCT) as a final client to upgrade and install new Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) along the Federal Bridges and Highways in Querétaro in Mexico. They include eight Automatic Weather Road Weather Information Stations (RWIS) ...
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Lufft introduces new stationary, non-invasive road weather sensor for smart traffic applications
With the now available non-invasive, stationary road weather sensor StaRWIS we continued the evolution of spectroscopic sensors consequently. It is based on the award-winning technology of the mobile weather sensor MARWIS which was launched in end of 2014. The new road sensor can be mounted at heights of 5.5 meters above the ground and is a less-expensive alternative to NIRS31-UMB - the first ...
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Seamless Data Thanks to Mobile Weather Sensors
Around 20% of all accidents with serious injuries and deaths on the roads are weather-related. The weather is also the reason why more than 30 billion hours of driving time are lost each year and shipping companies worldwide lose 2 – 3 billion $ annually. But how can these dangers and losses be reduced? And how can we best deal with temperature and precipitation fluctuations on our traffic ...
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