# Remote Automated Weather Station > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Remote_Automated_Weather_Station > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Remote_Automated_Weather_Station.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Automated_Weather_Station > Source revision: 1311251093 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS) with TriLeg tower at Ruby Lake [Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge](/source/Ruby_Lake_National_Wildlife_Refuge), [Elko County](/source/Elko_County%2C_Nevada), [Nevada](/source/Nevada) The **Remote Automatic Weather Stations** (**RAWS**) system is a network of [automated weather stations](/source/Automatic_weather_station) run by the [U.S. Forest Service](/source/U.S._Forest_Service) (USFS) and [Bureau of Land Management](/source/Bureau_of_Land_Management) (BLM) and monitored by the [National Interagency Fire Center](/source/National_Interagency_Fire_Center) (NIFC), mainly to observe potential [wildfire](/source/Wildfire) conditions. Unlike the [automated airport weather stations](/source/Automated_airport_weather_station) which are located at significant [airports](/source/Airport), RAWS stations are often located in remote areas, particularly in [national forests](/source/United_States_National_Forest). Because of this, they usually are not connected to the [electrical grid](/source/Electrical_grid), but rather have their own [solar panels](/source/Photovoltaic_module), and a [battery](/source/Battery_(electricity)) to store power for overnight reporting. Some instead run on a [generator](/source/Electrical_generator). In both cases, data important to operating the station itself, such as battery [voltage](/source/Voltage) or [fuel](/source/Fuel) level, is often included in the hourly reports. Also because of the remote locations, most communicate with a radio connection to a [GOES](/source/Geostationary_Operational_Environmental_Satellite) [satellite](/source/Satellite). In this regard, they are similar to [mesonets](/source/Mesonet) and may be mesonets if the distance between stations (spatial resolution) is sufficiently dense.[1] They often lack the consistently high-quality data needed for use in [numerical weather prediction](/source/Numerical_weather_prediction) and [climatology](/source/Climatology), however.[2] [Road Weather Information System](/source/Road_Weather_Information_System) (RWIS) may likewise be self-powered and located in remote areas. ## Portable RAWS There are times when a portable weather station is required, such as planned ignitions, wildfires, and other projects where there is a need to collect and share weather information.[3] [Portable](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FTS_-_Forest_Technology_Systems_LTD&action=edit&redlink=1) stations may also be referred to as "quick deploy" or QD, and this should be indicated within the name of the station to allow proper interpretation of the collected data. ## See also - [Remote sensing](/source/Remote_sensing) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Remote Automated Weather Station](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Remote_Automated_Weather_Station). - [National Interagency Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) Homepage](https://raws.fam.nwcg.gov/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210217224312/https://raws.fam.nwcg.gov/) 2021-02-17 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) v t e Earth-based meteorological observation systems and weather stations General Aircraft report (AIREP) Automated airport weather station Automatic weather station (AWS) Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) Dropsonde Hurricane Hunters Mesonet Meteorological Aerodrome Report (METAR) Pilot report (PIREP) Weather ship By region 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) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Zachariassen, John; K. Zeller; N. Nikolov; T. McClelland (2003). [*A Review of the Forest Service Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) Network*](https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr119.pdf) (PDF). Gen. Tech. Rep. Vol. RMRS-GTR-119. Ft. Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Forest Service, U.S.D.A. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hall, Beth L.; T. J. Brown (2007-01-16). ["Comparison of weather data from the Remote Automated Weather Station network and the North American Regional Reanalysis"](https://ams.confex.com/ams/87ANNUAL/techprogram/paper_120445.htm). *14th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation*. San Antonio, TX: American Meteorological Society. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Henry, Bryan. ["FIRE WEATHER STATION STANDARDS & GUIDELINES"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130911141510/http://raws.fam.nwcg.gov/nfdrs.html). *National Interagency Fire Center*. Archived from [the original](https://raws.fam.nwcg.gov/nfdrs.html) on 11 September 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2014. 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