More AWOS for North Dakota

All Weather, Inc. (AWI), a leading manufacturer of weather information systems and meteorological sensors, has been selected by the North Dakota Aeronautics Commission for an additional nine Automated Weather Observing Systems (AWOS) following the successful installation of eleven AWOS systems across the state last year. This makes for a total of 20 systems awarded to AWI over the last 18 months across the state of North Dakota. The AWOS is an unmanned system that provides up-to-the-minute weather data to airport personnel and pilots. Included in the AWOS offering are sensors for measuring wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rainfall, and barometric pressure. The North Dakota airports will also be outfitted with AWI's Laser Ceilometer and Dual-Technology Visibility Sensor. Laser ceilometers use laser pulses and sophisticated software algorithms to "see" cloud cover, enabling them to determine the height and depth of up to three layers of clouds above an airport. Dual-Technology Visibility Sensors are installed alongside the airport's runway, and work in concert to determine Runway Visual Range (RVR).