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New Sensor Developments
last update  ► 10 February 2008

Remote Sensing
Vaisala Thunderstorm Warning System TWX300
http://www.vaisala.com/weather/products/lightning/warningsystems/twx300
Vaisala Weather Radar
http://www.vaisala.com/weather/products/weatherradar
Lidar Systems
http://www.leosphere.com/products/products.html
  Lidar systems
www.raymetrics.gr/lidarSystemsProd.htm

Temperature and Humidity

  PTU300 Combined Pressure, Humidity and Temperature Transmitter
www.vaisala.com/weather/products/weatherinstruments/barometers
 

Precision Meteorological Thermo-Hygrometer Model MET-2010
www.yesinc.com/products/data/met2010/

 

Precision Meteorological Thermometer
www.yesinc.com/products/data/pmt2005/

Precipitation measurement
  Precipitation sensors (15188++) with additional functions
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/15188Precipitationsensorswithadditionalfunctions_144_170_362.php
  Weighing precipitation sensor 15189
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/PrecipitationsensorsacctoJossTognini15189_144_170_305.php
  Total Rain weighing Sensor TRwS
www.mps-system.sk/index.php?lang=EN&content=trws.php
  Micro Rain Radar (MRR)
www.biral.com/met/precipitation/mrr.htm
  Vaisala All Weather Precipitation Gauge VRG101
www.vaisala.com/vrg101
  Precipitation sensors with weighing tipping bucket
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/PrecipitationsensorsacctoJossTognini15188_144_170_176.php
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/PrecipitationsensorsacctoJossTognini15183_144_170_174.php
  A new high accuracy, low maintenance all weather precipitation gauge for
meteorological, hydrological and climatological applications
http://ams.confex.com/ams/Annual2006/techprogram/paper_102118.htm
  Optical Rain Sensor Model 205
http://www.mierijmeteo.com/index.php?paginaid=19
  OTT Parsivel, laser based optical Disdrometer and enhanced precipitation identifier
www.ott-hydrometry.de/web/ott_de.nsf/id/pa_parsivel_e.html
www.hydrometeoindustry.org/attachments/New Product - OTT Parsivel - Enhanced precipitation identifier-2005.pdf
  Freezing Rain Sensor
www.allweatherinc.com/news/press/091305_01.htm
  Total Precipitation Collector, Total Precipitation Sensor
www.yesinc.com/products/precip.html
http://ams.confex.com/ams/15AppClimate/techprogram/paper_94403.htm
http://ams.confex.com/ams/15AppClimate/techprogram/paper_94402.htm
  Development of a Meteorological Particle Sensor for the Observation of Drizzle
http://ams.confex.com/ams/84Annual/techprogram/paper_69228.htm
  Development of the All-weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge for ASOS
http://ams.confex.com/ams/84Annual/techprogram/paper_69273.htm
  Laser precipitation monitor (Disdrometer)
www.thiesclima.com/disdrometer.htm

Wind

  Vaisala WINDCAP® Ultrasonic Wind Sensor WS425 F/G
www.vaisala.com/weather/products/weatherinstruments/wind/ws425fg
  Wind direction and wind speed sensors
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/1452xWindSensorsPROFESSIONAL_144_153_286.php
  Benefits of Ultrasonic Anemometers
www.biral.com/met/wind/ultrasonicanemometers.htm
 

NOWA Wind Gauge
www.meteolabor.ch/e/nowa.htm

  WindMaster / WindMaster Pro
www.gill.co.uk/products/anemometer/windmaster.htm
 

Vaisala WINDCAP® Ultrasonic Wind Sensor WMT50
www.vaisala.com/wmt50

 

Lambrecht Wind sensor Weather Station Quatro-IND
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/WeathersensorQUATROIND1642_144_153_167.php

  Solent MetPak: Combined wind speed/direction, temperature and humidity sensor
www.gill.co.uk/products/anemometer/metpak_main.htm
 

Ultrasonic wind sensor
www.belfortinstrument.com/content/wind_windobserver2.cfm
www.allweatherinc.com/meteorological/ultrasonic.html

 

Sonic wind sensor
www.belfortinstrument.com/content/wind_windsonic.cfm
www.metone.com/meteorology.htm
www.climatronics.com/Products/Sensors/Wind-Speed-Direction/index.php

 

NOWA Sensor for Measuring Wind, Temperature, Icing and Precipitation (Session 6)
www.map.meteoswiss.ch/map-doc/icam2003/ICAM-MAP2003.htm

 

Lambrecht Static wind sensor Quatro-MET
www.lambrecht.net/eng/html/WindsensorQUATROMET1642_144_153_165.php

 

TMI's new generation wind sensor
www.sitek.se/weather.htm

Radiation

  SR11 first class Solar Radiation sensor
www.hukseflux.com/solar%20radiation/sr11.htm
  New CNR-4 Net-radiometer
http://www.kippzonen.com/?product/85182/CNR+4.aspx
  SPN1 Sunshine Pyranometer
www.delta-t.co.uk/news.html?article=news2006111320114
 

CSD 3 Sunshine Duration Sensor
www.kippzonen.com/?productgroup/1491/Sunshine+Duration+Sensors.aspx

 

Middleton Solar SK08 pyranometer
www.middletonsolar.com/index.htm or
www.middletonsolar.com/products/product14.htm

 

Delta Sunshine Sensor BF3
www.delta-t.co.uk/groups.html?group2005092332114
www.delta-t.co.uk/support-article.html?article=faq2005100703083

 

Total Infrared Radiometer
http://www.yesinc.com/products/data/tir570/index.html

 

Heliograph
www.cimel.fr/meteo/sens/heliographe_us.htm

 

Solar Radiation Sensor compliant with ISO and WMO Standards
www.hukseflux.com/solar radiation/lp02.htm

 

Middleton Solar SD4 Sunshine Duration Sensor
www.middletonsolar.com/products/product8.htm

Pressure

Barometers

http://www.vaisala.com/weather/products/weatherinstruments/barometers

  Cost-effective barometric pressure sensor using nano-technology
www.climatronics.com/barometric.html
  Digiquartz® Portable Model 765
www.paroscientific.com/model765.htm
  High Performance Pressure Port (DigiPort)
www.paroscientific.com/Accessories.htm#Digiport

Present Weather Phenomena

 

Present weather sensors
www.dwd.de/EUMETNET/pws.htm

 

Multifunctional instrument for monitoring atmospheric precipitation
www.nubila.net/pludix.html

Cloud measurement

AWI Model 8339 Laser Ceilometer Certified by FAA
http://www.allweatherinc.com/news/press/8339.html
 

Laser Ceilometer
www.allweatherinc.com/news/press/080105_01.html

 

New laser ceilometer using enhanced single lens optics
http://ams.confex.com/ams/84Annual/techprogram/paper_68092.htm

Evaporation

 

Evaporation Gauge
www.rainwise.com/products/detail.php?ID=6771

Soil Moisture

  SM200 Soil Moisture Sensor
www.delta-t.co.uk/news.html?article=news2005100418505
Visibility
  MPD 80 Road Visibility sensor
http://www.mierijmeteo.com/index.php?paginaid=20
  Sentry Visibility Sensor
www.envirotechsensors.com/products.htm
www.geneq.com/catalog/en/sentry.html
Other combined sensors
PWS100 Present Weather Sensor/Visibility Sensor
http://www.campbellsci.co.uk/index.cfm?id=1117
SR 50A Snow Depth / Distance Sensor
http://www.campbellsci.co.uk/index.cfm?id=233
  Weather Transmitter WXT510
www.vaisala.com/businessareas/instruments/products/weathermulti-sensor
 

Web Editor Sary Vargas, 19 July 2007