Another goal is to input the Florida MesoNetwork data into computer models. Finally, another archive site will be collaborated with the State Climatologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee. B. Summary The Florida MesoNetwork developed by the National Weather Service Office in Ruskin, is a low cost, high return weather observation system, in collaboration with many federal, state and private entities. The system provides current weather information for a variety of uses including agriculture, emergency management, and for National Weather Service model input and forecast operations. Communication is provided by a combination of radio and satellite telemetry, modem, Internet, and through standard NWS communication lines.
Data are quality controlled by geographical region and put into a tabular format.
A variety of graphical products is produced to provide easier interpretation. Graphical products include station plots and contours on maps and time series graphs for individual stations. Data are available through NWS equipment and the Internet and are locally archived. Anticipated improvements include increasing temporal and spatial resolution, visual climate data base, overlay of data on satellite imagery, a variety of derived products, and input of the data into a high resolution forecast model.