Gather and Analyze Data from Climate Stations
FlowWorks provides individuals with responsibility for climate stations with the tools to manage and analyze the numerous measurements including temperature, relative humidity, wind speed/direction, solar radiation, rainfall and snow totals that a typical climate station produces. By linking your live and historic climate station information from your datalogger network or SCADA system, you can make sense of historic and current conditions with FlowWorks.
Key Climate Features
- Map-Based Network Overview: easy point-and-click links to all of your analysis functions, including current and daily conditions;
- Straightforward summary reports; concise monthly rainfall summary shows you hourly, daily, and monthly totals along with duration-based statistics from 5-minutes to 24-hours;
- Intuitive graphing with custom template saving; combine your climate station into graphs along with any other type of station in your system;
- Curve fit function allows you to look for and quantify trends in your data;
- Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) analysis shows any current or historical storm data in the context of historical values and return periods;
- Custom real-time displays available, showing you everything that is going on in your climate network at a glance;
- Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) analysis shows any current or historical storm data in the context of historical values and return periods;
- Visual surveillance capability using an economical field camera to capture and link field observations at your climate station sites;
- Powerful meta-data storage capabilities, allowing you to store date and time-stamped photos, verification measurements and field observations, both in online data forms as well as through attachable documents;
- Custom displays or data feeds back to your own website for private or public viewing;
- Flexible download capability allowing you to easily download a day, a year, or a decade worth of your data through our high-speed data transfer service.
Data Transfer Flexibility + Hardware Neutrality: You choose whether to transfer your data manually through our high-speed upload service or link directly with your live data. FlowWorks will work with existing equipment from a mature monitoring network, or we can supply equipment solutions for you utilizing telephone, cellular, and satellite telemetry.
Easily answer the following common Climate Station questions using Flowworks
- Where are my climate stations, and what are the current conditions?
- How much variation is there between parameters at each of my stations?
- Are any of the rain gauges plugged with debris?
- It’s raining pretty hard outside…how big is this event?
- Can I see a wind rose for the station?
- How much snow is on the ground at a station?
- What are the average daily and monthly temperatures for a station?
- How big was the rainfall event that caused last weeks flooding?
- Can I see the maintenance sheets for a station for the past year?
- Which stations need battery changes right now? Are any stations not calling in?
- Can I see a picture of the current conditions at a site?
