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348 cu/ft. per sec. [1] Basin features. Progression. DuPage River → Des Plaines → Illinois → Mississippi → Gulf Mexico. GNIS ID. 407441. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The DuPage River is a 28.3-mile-long (45.5 km) [2] tributary of the Des Plaines River in the U.S. state of Illinois.
College of DuPage is a public community college with its main campus in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. [3] The college also owns and operates satellite campuses in Addison, Carol Stream, Naperville and Westmont. [4] [5] With more than 20,000 students, the College of DuPage is the second largest provider of undergraduate education in Illinois, after ...
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts.
An automatic weather station ( AWS) is an automated version of the traditional weather station, either to save human labor or to enable measurements from remote areas. [1] An AWS will typically consist of a weather-proof enclosure containing the data logger, rechargeable battery, telemetry (optional) and the meteorological sensors with an ...
SYNOP. SYNOP ( surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by staffed and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically sent every six hours by Deutscher Wetterdienst on shortwave and low frequency using RTTY. A report consists of groups of numbers (and slashes ...
Surface weather observation. Weather station at Mildura Airport, Victoria, Australia. Surface weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide. [1] They can be taken manually, by a weather observer, by computer through the use of automated weather ...
The Coastal-Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) is a meteorological observation network along the coastal United States. Consisting of about sixty stations installed on lighthouses, at capes and beaches, on near shore islands, and on offshore platforms, the stations record atmospheric pressure, wind direction, speed and gust, and air temperature; however, some C-MAN stations are designed to also ...
Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) with TriLeg tower at Ruby Lake Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko County, Nevada. The Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of automated weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and monitored by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), mainly to observe potential wildfire ...