Remote Automatic Weather Station. a weather station at which the services of an observer are not required. A RAWS unit measures selected weather elements automatically and is equipped with telemetry apparatus for transmitting the electronically recorded data via radio, satellite or by a landline communication system at predetermined times on a user-requested basis.
a tower equipped with computerized sensing equipment that samples weather conditions every hour and transmits data to a satellite
Remote Automatic Weather Station. A GEOS telemetered weather station that transmits hourly observations 24 times per day. These observations are automatically delivered through ASCADS to WIMS.
Remote Automatic Weather Station. An apparatus that automatically acquires, processes, and stores local weather data for later transmission to the GOES Satellite, from which the data is re-transmitted to an earth-receiving station for use in the National Fire Danger Rating System.
Remote Automated Weather Station. A network of weather stations positioned throughout the U.S. that collect, store, and forward data hourly via satellite to a computer system located at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
Remote Automated Weather Station. There are nearly 1,500 interagency Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS) strategically located throughout the United States. Weather data assists land management agencies with monitoring air quality, rating fire danger, and providing information for research applications. Most of the stations owned by the wildland fire agencies are located where they can monitor fire danger. RAWS units collect, store, and forward data to a computer system at the National Interagency Fire Center ( NIFC) in Boise, Idaho, via the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ( GOES). The GOES is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA). These data are automatically forwarded to other computer systems including the Weather Information Management System (WIMS) and the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nevada ( www.wrcc.dri.edu). Other Automated Weather Stations (AWS) transmit data to the WIMS system via telephone telemetry. Fire managers use RAWS data to predict fire behavior and monitor fuels; resource managers also use data to monitor environmental conditions.
