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Meteorological Equipment

There are AWOS, LLWAS, AOAWS, MDS and JMDS to provide weather information during a flight.AWOS consisting of wind direction, wind speed, tempetature, dew points, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, runway visibility, cloud height and other major meteorological parameters is used for weather forecast.

wind sock

Wind Sock

cloud ceilometer

Cloud Ceilometer

Visibility meter

Visibility Meter

Meteorological Equipment
NameNumberLocation
Automatic Weather Observation System
(AWOS)
25 sets

Taiwan Taoyuan Int'l Airport, Kaohsiung Int'l Airport and Taipei Songshan / Beigan / Nangan / Kinmen Shangyi / Hengchun / Qimei / Wangan / Taitung Fongnian / Ludao / Lanyu Airport

Low Level Windshear Alert System
(LLWAS)
2 sets

Taiwan Taoyuan Int'l Airport, Taipei Songshan Airport

Advanced Operational Aviation Weather System
(AOAWS)
1 set

Taipei Aeronautical Meteorological Center

Java- Based Multidimensional Display System
(JMDS)
7 sets

Songshan / Taoyuan / Kaohsiung Weather Station, Taipei Area Control Center, Taipei / Taoyuan / Kaohsiung Flight Information Station

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