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Title:

Statewide Monitoring of the Mesoscale Environment: A Technical Update on the Oklahoma Mesonet

Abstract:

Established as a multipurpose network, the Oklahoma Mesonet operates more than 110 surface observing stations that send data every 5 minutes to an operations center for data quality assurance, product generation, and dissemination. Quality-assured data are available within 5 minutes of the observation time. Since 1994, the Oklahoma Mesonet has collected 3.5 billion weather and soil observations and produced millions of decision-making products for its customers.

Source(s):

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. For an electronic copy of this resource, please direct your request to WeatherFeedback@dot.gov.

Date: 2007

Author:

McPherson, et al

Keywords:


Observing network
Institutional issues
Communications

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