FAQs, White Papers and Resource Links

Frequently Asked Questions

• Guide to Buying a Professional Weather Station
• What to Expect when Buying a Weather Station from Columbia Weather Systems
• What solar radiation sensors are available?
• What's the difference between precipitation sensors?
• MicroServer: How to Establish Communication with the Weather MicroServer™
• MicroServer: Will a weather station affect network security?
• Weather Master™ Software: How to Interface with CAMEO/ALOHA Interface
• Weather Underground®: How to Set-Up
• Magellan MX™ Weather Station: How to Align Wind Direction to True North
• Weather Display Upgrade: How to Do a Date Fix
• WeatherMaster Software: Interfacing PEAC for HazMat and CBRNE applications

White Papers/Application Notes

• Solar Energy: Weather Stations for Solar Power Monitoring
• White Paper: Weather Monitoring Aids Disaster Mitigation - Lessons Learned from the Arizona Eastern Region HazMat Exercise
• Industrial Automation Application Note: Interfacing CWS weather stations to SCADA, DCS, and PLC systems
• Application Note Utilities: Interfacing CWS weather stations to DNP3 systems
• 5 Reasons Why Incident Response Needs a Weather Station
• 5 Reasons Why Smart Water Utilities Need a Weather Station
• Application Note: Lightning Detection for Power Utilities
• Application Note: Environmental Data for Dairy Farming

Weather Resource Links

• TED Talk: The Joy of Cloudspotting
• Anything Weather, offers database of real-time weather data in the United States
• Washington Online Weather, provides mountain weather information to the active outdoors person in the state of Washington
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Weather Service
• NOAA list of weather education sites
• The American Meteorological Society
• NWS, Portland, Oregon Forecast Office
• National Weather Service
• Boltek lightning detectors
• Oregon AMS Local Chapter