OK Mesonet

The Oklahoma Mesonet is a world-class network of environmental monitoring stations. The network was designed and implemented by scientists at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and at Oklahoma State University (OSU).

The Oklahoma Mesonet consists of 114 automated stations covering Oklahoma. There is at least one Mesonet station in each of Oklahoma's 77 counties.

At each site, the environment is measured by a set of instruments located on or near a 10-meter-tall tower. The measurements are packaged into "observations" every 5 minutes, then the observations are transmitted to a central facility every 15 minutes, 24 hours per day year-round.

The Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS) at OU receives the observations, verifies the quality of the data and provides the data to Mesonet customers. It only takes 10 to 20 minutes from the time the measurements are acquired until they become available to customers, including schools.

As the customers and LDAS investigators, we obtained the data from Oklahoma Mesonet and use them to do LDAS validation. We also do data quality control and data analysis, but we are not allowed to distribute this valuable dataset. Please contact Oklahoma Mesonet for data.

More information about Oklahoma Mesonet can be found here.

Click on the stations to view the time series.