ESS124
Prof.
Jin-Yi Yu
What does ASOS/AWOS
Report?
•Cloud
height and amount
•Visibility
•Precipitation
type, intensity, and accumulation (bgn/ending time)
•Obstruction
to vision (such as fog or haze) (maybe visibility)
•Sea-level
pressure (may also report pressure tendency)
•Altimeter
setting
•Temperature
•Dewpoint
temperature
•Wind
direction, speed, and character (gusts, squalls)