List of weather instruments

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This is a list of devices used for recording various aspects of the weather.

Observation systems

Worldwide	Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) Argo Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System (AMeDAS) Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) FluxNet Project (FluxNet) Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA) Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project (TAO/TRITON) Voluntary observing ship program

United States	Citizen Weather Observer Program (CWOP) Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) NEXRAD radar Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) Road Weather Information System (RWIS) Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR)

Orbital meteorological and remote sensing systems

Concepts

Current projects

Earth Observing System (EOS)	GPM TRMM Landsat 7 QuikSCAT Terra ACRIMSAT NMP/EO-1 Jason-1 OSTM/Jason-2 Jason-3 Meteor 3M-1/Sage III GRACE Aqua SORCE Aura CloudSat CALIPSO NPOESS Megha-Tropiques SARAL IRS ESSP Aquarius Landsat 8 SMAP

A-train satellites	Aqua Aura CALIPSO CloudSat GCOM-W1 (Shizuku) OCO-2

Copernicus programme	Sentinel-1 Sentinel-2 Sentinel-3 Sentinel-4 Sentinel-5 Precursor Sentinel-5

Geostationary meteorological satellites	Elektro-L Fengyun-2 GOES INSAT Meteosat Himawari-8

Other satellites	CBERS COSMO-SkyMed DMSP DMC EROS Fengyun-3 FORMOSAT-2 GOSAT (Ibuki) Landsat MetOp Meteor POES RADARSAT-2 SMOS SPOT TerraSAR-X THEOS

Former projects

Completed	ADEOS (Midori) ADEOS II (Midori 2) COSMIC (FORMOSAT-3) Envisat ERS FORMOSAT-1 Geosat GMS (Himawari) ICESat IKONOS JERS-1 (Fuyo-1) Nimbus PARASOL QuickBird RADARSAT-1 Seasat SeaWiFS TIROS TOPEX/Poseidon UARS Vanguard

Failed	OCO Glory

Cancelled	NMP/EO-3

US Weather radars

Military weather radars	SCR-658 radar AN/APQ-13 AN/APS-2F AN/CPS-9 AN/FPS-41 AN/FPS-77

Weather Surveillance Radars	WSR-1 and -1A WSR-3 WSR-4 WSR-57 WSR-74C and -74S WSR-81C WSR100-S WSR-88D (NEXRAD) TDWR

Research radars	ADRAD ARMOR Cimarron CASA CORAD CSU-CHILL CSU-Pawnee DOW JPOLE KPOL NOAA/ETL NOAA Ron Brown's Doppler NPOL NSSL 10 cm Doppler OU-PRIME PAR at NSSL SKYWATER SMART-R TOGA UND

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