About the Project
The Meteorological Instruments Project is a weather station rental, design, and assembly service offering affordable high-quality made-to-order weather observing systems for both public and private entities across the contiguous United States.
Each installation is part of a greater network initiative called the Collaborative High-resolution Atmospheric Data Automated Surface Observing System (CHAD ASOS). Up to the minute maps, simplistic textual displays, and meteograms of CHAD ASOS data can be found on this site for your personal use.
Application:
- Agriculture
- Emergency Management
- Infrastructure/Utilities
- Live Events
- Atmospheric Research
- Automated Network(s)
- Mesonet
- Micronet
Rental Service:
The Met Instruments project offers weather station and weather station component rentals for public and private organizations and independent personal use. Pricing is based on upkeep of instrumentation including maintenance, calibration, and repair (if required). These factors are covered preemptively to optimize end user field experience.
If renting sounds right for you or your organization, feel free to reach out using the contact form below.
Available Deployable Weather Stations:
(01) Quickly Deployable Automated Weather Station (QDAWS)
- 10 minute setup typical
- Cellular connectivity
- 4.5 days battery life
- 15 days data storage
(02) FLUX Deployable Automated Weather Station (FLUXDAWS) (Coming Soon)
Available Components:
Anemometers
Thermometers
Hygro-thermometers
Barometers
Rain Gauges
Pyranometers
Data Loggers
Design, Assembly, and Installation:
Based out of St. Louis, MO, USA, the Met Instruments Project offers flexible meteorological observation solutions that are user catered utilizing high-quality instrumentation at a competitive price-point. No one system or network are the same such that the end user has complete customizability and control in what they measure and how they measure it. This approach precludes the “one size fits all” mentality that many other weather station manufacturers subscribe to.
The Met Instruments Project can design, construct, and integrate both new and used observation systems. A standard system includes an anemometer (wind), thermometer (temperature), hygro-thermometer (relative humidity and dew point), barometer (atmospheric pressure), rain gauge (precipitation), pyranometer (sunlight intensity), and data logger (recorder). Components used in each system come from a wide range of industry standard manufacturers including but not limited to R. M. Young, Campbell Scientific, Vaisala, and Setra Systems.
Prior to site installation, applicable instrument calibration is traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Each location complies with WMO and AASC recommended siting practices as close as practical.
Each available solution are listed below:
New
Automated weather station built using exclusively new parts.
$$$
Hybrid
Automated weather station built using new and used components.
$$
Used
Automated weather station built with used parts and components.
$
Both the architecture and method of data access and retrieval are tailored to the end user. The Met Instruments Project wants to work with you and meet your requirements when designing your single site or network of weather stations.
Weather station data may be hosted natively on the Met Instruments Project website, via integration onto a user supplied site, or through a newly hosted site dedicated to storing and managing your weather data. Locally logged data will also have an immediate method of access and retrieval. Depending on your needs, coordination with your ISP may be required.
The Met Instruments Project believes that if you own the weather station, you own the data. The system is intrinsically designed to allow end user access on demand whenever and however needed. There will never be paid access. The only subscriptions required are for webhosting and/or cellular data (if applicable).
Once integrated, an optional contractual maintenance and calibration service for continued support after installation is available.
Get in Contact:
If you or someone you know is in the market for affordable high-quality weather observations, please do not hesitate to reach out with questions, comments, or business inquiries. You can contact me below:
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Data availability may vary due to infrastructure, environmental, technical, or transmission limitations at individual site installations. The Met Instruments Project does not guarantee continuous availability, data integrity, standardization, or quality control of any datasets.
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