DOST installs Automatic Weather Station
PIA daily news in English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Waray, Pangalatok from around the Philippines: "The DOST-PAGASA/ASTI Automatic Weather Station joint project will establish and maintain a nationwide environmental monitoring network and will continuously provide solutions for the mitigation of environment-related disasters.The ASWs are equipped with sensors capable of measuring weather parameters, wind speed and direction, air temperature, air humidity, air pressure, rain amount, duration and intensity.
Aside from Tacloban, DOST will also install Automatic Weather Stations in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte, Maasin, Southern Leyte, Catbalogan, Samar and Guiuan, Eastern Samar.
A total of 80 AWSs is programmed to be installed in stations across the country. The DOST hopes to complete the installation by August of 2011.
Mr. Peñaranda said that in addition to the AWSs, DOST-ASTI, in cooperation with DOST-PAGASA, has also developed an Automatic Rain Gauge (ARG) to gather and record the amount of rainfall over a set period of time and automatically sends the data to the central based station on a pre-determined interval basis."
