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Automated Weather Observation System Integrates all airport weather data

Automated Weather Observation System • Integrates all airport weather data • Scalable up to ICAO category CAT III • Conforms to the ICAO and WMO regulations and recommendations • AWOS data on the Net Integrated IMS - Automated Weather Observation System is an airport weather observation system for regional, national and international airports. The IMS AWOS measures, processes, stores, presents and communicates all meteorological data at the airport: measurements produced by variety of meteorological sensors, manual observations, WMO codes received from GTS and AFTN. It provides the weather...

Automated Weather Observation System IMS4 AWOS Large Automated Weather Observation System Primary runway Ceilometer Runway surface status, tRWY Runway surface status, tRWY FSK modem lines or fibre optic or radiomodems/wifi Air traffic navigation systems Meteo building Met. observer Low level windshear alert system Meteo garden Media converter (serial, fibre optic, ...) Upper air sounding systems Global radiation Air temperature, Relative humidity Weather radar Central system Forecasting workstation Ground temperature Satellite receiver Central server 1 Barometric pressure ATIS / VOLMET AFTN...

Automated Weather Observation SystemSystem description Measurement The system can interface numerous types of loggers and sensors. It is designed to measure, calculate and process different meteorological quantities as temperature (dry, surface, soil, soil under vegetation), wind speed and direction, pressure (station, QNH, QFE, QFF), relative humidity, precipitation (indicator and amount), runway surface temperature, freezing temperature for different de-icing materials, runway condition (dry/damp/wet/ice, etc.), visibility and RVR, cloud height, sunshine duration, solar and gamma...

Automated Weather Observation System IMS4 AWOS System components Components The typical set of IMS AWOS field sensors consists of: • Wind speed and direction sensors • Pressure sensors • Temperature and humidity sensors • Visibility sensors (transmissiometers, forward scatters) • Cloud height sensors • Weather station (usually AWS 200 or AWS 111) with rain gauge, global radiation, ground temperature and other sensors • Present weather sensor, thunderstorm/lightning sensor • Runway surface sensors In addition to the standard set of sensors used with IMS AWS system, any sensor can be...

System components Aviation Weather Display (LCD) Aviation Weather Display serves for operators at tower, approach, operations and other places where real-time screen containing local measured data and selected information from national bulletins is necessary to be permanently displayed. Briefing Optional Briefing Workstation subsystem provides collecting and printing of flight documentation for pilots based on the local meteorological data and messages received from the GTS, AFTN, SADIS, WAFC FTP backup: • OPMET text data as the METAR, SPECI, TAF, LONG TAF, WARNING, SIGMET, AIRMET and...