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? Display locations of fixed weather stations within 5 miles of the incident. Include each station’s effective radius of data collection....
...There are fixed automated weather stations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Responders are interested in weather data from the station that is closest to the incident. For this incident, both the San Leandro Marsh and Oakland Airport stations could supply the responders with realistic weather data near the incident location.
...The Oakland Fire Department's Hazardous Materials Truck also carries weather collection instruments but they are only accurate when the truck is stationary. Their plume modeling program (ALOHA) can input the weather data from the nearest fixed weather station while the Hazardous Materials Truck is in transit, and then recalculate the plume location using on-site weather data when the responders arrive on scene and activate their truck’s weather-data instruments.
Identify Real-time Data for Predictive Modeling....
An accurate plume model requires accurate, real-time climate data. With accuracy in mind, responders seek climate data from the weather station that is closest to the incident location.