Vaisala Continues to Provide Lightning Data to U.S. National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) has chosen Vaisala Group as its supplier of lightning information for a contract term of five years. The contract includes Vaisala’s U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN), the leading lightning information system tracking cloud-to-ground lightning activity across the continental United States.
(PRWEB) August 4, 2005 -- The National Weather Service (NWS) has chosen
Vaisala Group as its supplier of lightning information for a contract term of
five years. The contract includes Vaisala’s U.S. National Lightning Detection
Network (NLDN), the leading lightning information system tracking
cloud-to-ground lightning activity across the continental United States. New
services for NWS include additional coverage over regions with exceptional
weather phenomena and cloud lightning detection in critical areas for improving
nowcasting.
“We’re pleased that our long-term customer, NWS, has chosen
Vaisala’s NLDN,” commented Pekka Ketonen, President and CEO of the Vaisala
Group. “In our partnership with NWS, Vaisala will provide the most innovative
and reliable solutions in lightning detection. I am confident that what we
achieve together will support NWS’s mission of protecting life and property.”
The NWS, a line office of the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and
warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean
areas. NWS data and products form a national information database and
infrastructure, which can be used by other governmental agencies, the private
sector, the public, and the global community.
The Vaisala Group is an
international technology company that develops and manufactures electronic
measurement systems and equipment for meteorology, environmental sciences,
traffic safety and industry. Vaisala employs over 1,000 professionals and
achieved net sales of EUR 180.6 million in 2004. In 2004, exports outside
Finland accounted for 97% of net sales. Vaisala's A-series shares are listed on
the Helsinki Exchange (HEX).
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