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AWOS
- Usado para
- automated weather observing system
- Definição1
- A suite of sensors which measure, collect, and disseminate weather data.
- Fonte1
- FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Instrument procedures handbook: FAA-H-8261-1A. 2nd ed. Newcastle: ASA, 2007.
- Nota adicional1
- AWOS stations provide a minute-by-minute update of weather parameters such as wind speed and direction, temperature and dew point, visibility, cloud heights and types, precipitation, and barometric pressure. A variety of AWOS system types are available (from AWOS 1 to AWOS 3), each of which includes a different sensor array.