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T oyoaki Nakarai, former visiting professor of Environment and Information Sciences at Yokohama National University in Japan, and his team have been working with the Magellan MX™ Portable Weather Station . They are collaborating with Yokohama Fire Department because “there are many chemical companies in their responsible field.” The attached photos show their success in plume modeling utilizing the weather station data with ALOHA. 1) From the left (above photo), Nakarai, Prof. Atsumi Miyake, Dr. Nakayama, two students, and Dr. Shiota, with the Magellan MX500 Portable Weather Station. 2) Comparison of wind speed between ALOHA text description and WeatherMaster. 3) ALOHA simulation result, transferred to Google Earth, through Marplot.

O n the small island of Hornøya in Norway, an Orion Weather Station installed on the highest cliff has been helping scientists gather data on endangered seabird populations since 2016. Thousands of birds make the island their summer home. Researchers from Uni Research Climate and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research study how the changing climate affects the thousands of birds who make the island their home in the summer months. “We want to study if weather patterns affect the route taken by these seabirds to find food, or if bad weather can make them more stressful, or whether other behavioral changes can be due to weather patterns,” writes researcher Michel Mesquita. "We can now gather wind, pressure, rainfall, temperature, and humidity data at high temporal resolution thanks to the new weather station we installed on the island. We hope to obtain more funding to continue our collaboration and research work, such that we can understand more about the behavior of seabirds a...

Happy Spring Equinox from Columbia Weather Systems! We're looking forward to  longer days,  warmer weather, and an abundance of flower buds on the trees here in Oregon. What is your favorite spring flower? 🌹 Photo credit goes to our resident photographer,  CWS President Nader Khoury.  See more of his nature photography on flickr . 

Capricorn FLX™ Weather Station with WeatherMaster™ Software screen. A modular design, allowing for custom parameter selection and individual sensor placement, makes the Capricorn FLX™ weather station a cost-effective solution for businesses looking for a flexible, professional-grade meteorological monitoring system. The Capricorn FLX integrates barometric pressure with sensor options including proven-reliable, mechanical wind speed and direction; up to four temperature sensors (air, soil, and/or water); tipping-bucket rain gauge; humidity; soil moisture; leaf wetness; and up to two solar radiation sensors. Data can be monitored with our proprietary Weather Display Console, WeatherMaster™ Software, and/or the Weather MicroServer™ for Internet-ready output as well as industrial automation interfaces and the Weather Monitor™ App. The Capricorn FLX model weather station is utilized by customers in industrial manufacturing, oil, energy, and research applications including Lockheed Mart...

Happy first week of Meteorological Spring! 🌷 What are you looking forward to the most as we transition into a new season?