Talk:Automated airport weather station

old discussion
I've merged as much information as was relevent, as well as much additional information as I could, into this single page, with separate sections for each individual system. Famartin 15:31, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

STOP MOVING THIS PAGE
To Radiojon, STOP IT! There is already a page about other non-aviation related automated weather stations, Automatic weather station. Please make use of it to add other kinds of systems. This page is specific for aviation stations, which have a very specific suite of sensors and purposes. Famartin (talk) 06:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Discussion regarding merging this page with Automatic weather station
I think these pages should remain separate. This page can concentrate on various other automatic weather stations, which generally only report temperature, humidity/dewpoint, wind speed/direction, pressure and accumulated precipitation.

Airport weather stations are unique in their ability to report present weather (fog/haze/rain/snow/thunderstorms), visibility, and cloud height (ceiling). They are also unique in that they are designed specifically for aviation needs, not just regular weather reporting. They are a much higher and more specialized class of station and should be kept separate from the average automatic weather station description. Famartin (talk) 03:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree. The topics should remain separated due to the specific and unique nature of aviation automatic weather stations. Fairchildbrad 05:22, 9 January 2010 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fairchildbrad (talk • contribs)


 * Sounds like a good idea to me to keep the two pages separate. I plan on making an edit pass through both articles very soon. Guy1890 (talk) 01:42, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

subjective description of ultrasonic wind measuring technology.
I have to say, that stating that THE sonic measurement device has been developed, is not true in general. Maybe for AWOS it is true, but was done by a specific company.

There are different technologies on the market, including ones with 2 rectangular orientated pairs of transducers instead of 3 transducers in a side equal triangle orientation since the mid-90ies of the last century.

Still the runtimes of ultrasonic signals from one transducer to the other and te way back are the ones to determine the speed of te airfow between the transducers.

But using 2 pairs of transducers instead of 3 single transducers gives more information and stability of the measurement. 92.78.185.240 (talk) 12:03, 18 August 2011 (UTC)


 * The comments regarding ultrasonic sensors are correct. This and many other sections of the article seem/seemed to apply to specific sensors or systems. I took care of wind, visibility and pressure so far. Bklusek (talk) 22:41, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

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