What is the difference between the weather station and the micrometeorological station?
The “weather station” is the central tower at the weather station that houses the sensors that are displayed on the main UW weather station homepage. The “weather station” has all the equipment of a “Class A” Environment Canada synoptic weather station, however we don’t meet some of the other criterion to be considered a “Class A” weather station (ie. we haven’t been around for 30 years and we allow tours of the station). We have also added two micrometeorological towers with various experimental instrumentation such as driving rain gauges and instruments to study boundary layer processes.
