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About the Oklahoma Mesonet
The Oklahoma
Mesonet is a world-class network of environmental monitoring
stations. The network was designed and implemented by scientists
at the University of
Oklahoma (OU) and at Oklahoma
State University (OSU).
The Oklahoma Mesonet consists of 114 automated stations covering
Oklahoma. There is at least one Mesonet station in each of Oklahoma's
77 counties.
At each site, the environment is measured by a set of instruments
located on or near a 10-meter-tall tower. The measurements are packaged
into "observations" every 5 minutes, then the observations
are transmitted to a central facility every 15 minutes, 24 hours
per day year-round.
The Oklahoma Climatological
Survey (OCS) at OU receives the observations, verifies the quality
of the data and provides the data to Mesonet customers. It only
takes 10 to 20 minutes from the time the measurements are acquired
until they become available to customers, including schools.
As of 2002, no other state or nation is known to have a network
that boasts the capabilities of the Oklahoma Mesonet.
The Mesonet is unique in its capability to measure a large variety
of environmental conditions at so many sites across an area as large
as Oklahoma. In addition, these conditions are relayed to a wide
variety of customers very quickly after the observations are taken.
Please click
here for a more detailed description of the Oklahoma Mesonet.
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