Kolkata: For the first time, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport has been equipped with Automated Weather Observing System (AWOS), a state of the art integrated aviation meteorological system.
On Wednesday, Airport Authority of India (AAI), Kolkata Regional Executive Director Nivedita Dubey inaugurated the mechanism that has been installed and integrated by the Meteorological Watch Office under the India Meteorological Department, Kolkata.
The AWOS sensors will collect all the met parameters like temperature, wind speed and shear, relative humidity, runway visibility range and cloud height from six observing stations installed at six met parks along the runway at Kolkata Airport.
These will feed real-time data into the system that will process the data centrally to make it available in a composite format. It is also helpful for the airport operator, AAI in Kolkata, to assess the meteorological situation to then take a call on aircraft operations.
