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Automated weather station (AWS) networks are increasingly being used to gather weather data for agricultural and other bioclimatic applications. Many manually read conventional weather station (CWS) networks are being replaced with AWS networks. The use of AWS networks increased rapidly during the 1980s because of improvements in battery-powered dataloggers and computer communications. Although CWS networks continue to provide the basic climate information, AWS networks have the ability to gather and disseminate greater quantities of data at more frequent intervals than CWS networks.
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Snyder, R.L., Brown, P.W., Hubbard, K.G., Meyer, S.J. (1996). A Guide to Automated Weather Station Networks in North America. In: Stanhill, G. (eds) Advances in Bioclimatology_4. Advances in Bioclimatology, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61132-2_1
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