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Weather station in alpine summer landscape

Measuring Air Quality in Switzerland’s Lofty Mountains with Pluvio²

Inaccessibly shimmering from the distance as white giants, but the mountains are sensitive on the events in the plains. Amid the Swiss Alps, at the Alpine Research Station Furka (ALPFOR)...
4. January 2021
HydrologyMeteorology
Title Image Podcast Episode 4

Podcast: Ceilometers in Science Applications

Staring at the sky, watching the clouds go by – ceilometers seem to have quite an easy job. But in fact, it is not. Rather, they fulfil very important tasks...
16. December 2020
Meteorology
Workers retrofit road weather station with Lufft equipment

Retrofitting Caltrans’ Road Weather Stations using existing infrastructure

With winter approaching, road maintenance services prepare and check their equipment for the challenging season to come. Typical work consists of calibrating sensors and exchanging single modules, but after some...
30. November 2020
Meteorology
Bus in Offenburg mit Straßenwettersensor MARWIS

Pilot project: Bus with Mobile Sensor increases Road Safety

Winter services save lives. They use salt spreaders and snow plows to ensure safe roads as soon as the days get shorter and colder and detect the road condition with...
22. October 2020
Meteorology
Waldbrände nahe einer Stadt in Kalifornien

Ceilometers Detect Wildfire Smoke From the U.S. West Coast Crossing the Ocean

2020 will go down in history not only as the year of COVID-19 but also of devastating wildfires. Their consequences reach out far. Harmful plume particles float over thousands of...
6. October 2020
Meteorology

OTT CAST – yet another podcast…

Let’s be honest, we all get flooded with podcasts these days. But although there are loads of different podcasts around the internet, we still miss a competent talk format about...
23. September 2020
Meteorology

Securing the Airspace with Lufft Ceilometers

Since the early days of aviation, clouds stand in the way between mankind and the sky. Today, to secure airspace and guarantee a safe flight, airports rely on meteorological instruments...
5. August 2020
Meteorology
Future City

Cities become smart through data

A smart city makes life easier for its inhabitants and administration. Whether it’s looking for parking spaces, waste disposal, irrigation or winter services – the pioneering municipality of Herrenberg is...
23. June 2020
Meteorology
Wetterstation und Schaltschrank an einem Strommast

How weather data helps to improve our power grid

Two workers are dangling from a thin steel frame, 25 meters above the ground. They are hanging from an overhead line pylon, secured by a harness like rock climbers in...
15. May 2020
Meteorology

Webinar: The Future of Mobile and Stationary Road Weather Data

https://youtu.be/wrobYVYOQ1IRoad conditions and visibility heavily influence drivers’ safety and traffic flow. With a wide range of sensors, road maintenance specialists monitor a variety of meteorological parameters including air and surface...
5. May 2020
Meteorology

Difficult forecasts: how the Coronavirus is creating trouble for meteorologists

COVID-19 is even influencing our weather - or at least how well we can predict it. COVID-19 has the world in awe. Society, the health system and the economy have...
9. April 2020
Meteorology

The fight against slippery roads – with or without snow

Although there are not many signs of winter at the beginning of this year, the technical department from Offenburg (TBO) have been in operation for a long time, the constant changes...
3. February 2020
Meteorology
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