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13 - AWS data flows, display and storage

from Part II - Measuring the weather

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2024

Stephen Burt
Stephen Burt
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Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
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Summary

A modern automatic weather station (AWS) is a sophisticated collection of various components, sensors and electronics modules tied together by software, together making up a data acquisition and processing system. Many of today and tomorrow’s products follow a broadly similar set of basic processes, and this chapter sets out to explain these basic processing steps, keeping technical terminology to a minimum, and illustrating three different approaches to ‘system architecture’. The oversight provided by this chapter provides familiarity with the key concepts, system approaches and application types, and from there users can review potential products and suppliers using Internet search facilities to gather up-to-date product information.

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meteorological measurementsmeteorological instrumentsweather and climate observationsautomatic weather stationsoftwaremeteorological data typessystem architecturedatalogger
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The Weather Observer's Handbook , pp. 314 - 323
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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