MesoWest: Cooperative Mesonets in the Western United States

MesoWest reflects a cooperative exchange of weather information among government agencies and private firms in the western United States. MesoWest began as the Utah Mesonet and was focussed primarily on providing access to weather data in Utah and immediately surrounding states. Roughly 2500 stations from over 40 organizations across the western United States are now included in the MesoWest data base.

Examples of the use of MesoWest for National Weather Service operations will be presented. In addition, terrain-flow interactions during the Intermountain Precipitation Experiment (IPEX) will be illustrated. Applications of MesoWest to the Vertical Transport and Mixing Experiment (VTMX) program will also be presented.