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Meteorological data from over 2800 automated environmental monitoring
stations in the western United States are collected, processed,
archived, integrated, and disseminated as part of the MesoWest program.
MesoWest depends upon voluntary access to provisional observations from
environmental monitoring stations installed and maintained by federal,
state, and local agencies and commercial firms. In many cases,
collection and transmission of these observations are facilitated by NWS
forecast offices, government laboratories, and universities. MesoWest
augments the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) network
maintained by the NWS, Federal Aviation Administration, and Department
of Defense. MesoWest increases the coverage of observations in remote
locations and helps capture many of the local and mesoscale weather
phenomena that impact the public.
The primary goal of MesoWest is to improve timely access to automated
observations for NWS forecasters at offices throughout the western
United States. In addition, integration of the observations into
analyses of surface conditions at high spatial and temporal resolution
provides additional tools for nowcasts and forecast verification.
MesoWest observations are being used for many other applications,
including input to operational and research models and research and
education on weather processes in the western United States.
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