Press releases and product launches 2005

Dec 13, 2005
Vaisala wind profilers establish foothold in China

Dec 6, 2005
Lightning Protection for Golf Industry MX Visions WeatherSentry integrates Vaisala NLDN Data to protect golf superintendents, managers and golf professionals.

Nov 8, 2005
More precise precipitation information from the Greater Helsinki area in November The November measurement campaign of the Helsinki Testbed, located in the Greater Helsinki area, focuses on different precipitation types.

Oct 24, 2005
US National Hurricane Center and Vaisala Working Together in Hurricane Research For several years now, Vaisala has been studying lightning that occur in the eyewall of a hurricane, and their connection to hurricane intensity. The study combines lightning data gathered with Vaisala's US-wide lightning detection network with the National Hurricane Center's hurricane data.

Oct 6, 2005
Vaisala News issue 169 out now

Sep 19, 2005
Vaisala weather stations on top of the world at Mount Everest The China Meteorological Administration has chosen Vaisala's automatic weather stations for the modernization of the weather observation network in the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Aug 16, 2005
Vaisala's automatic weather station to be used by Denver's no. 1 TV Weathercast In April, a Vaisala HydroMet™ Automatic Weather Station MAWS301 was installed on top of the Channel 7 building in downtown Denver. Mike Nelson, the number 1 TV weather personality in the region, has used the Vaisala equipment since then for the 5, 6, and 10 PM Weathercasts.

Aug 3, 2005
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.

Aug 2, 2005
Accurate weather information benefits athletes in Helsinki The Finnish Meteorological Institute, Vaisala, and partners have launched the first measurement campaign in the Helsinki Testbed project.

Jul 13, 2005
Helsinki Urban Modeling Workshop, June 2005 An international group of scientists interested in observation and simulation of urban boundary layers got together to explore ways in which urban modelers could make maximum use of the unique urban meteorological data sets compiled from the Helsinki Testbed.

Jul 12, 2005
New Dewpoint Transmitter Series The Vaisala DRYCAP® Dewpoint and Temperature Transmitter Series DMT340 is designed for industrial low dewpoint and/or low humidity applications. Typical applications include compressed air drying and metal treatment. DMT340 uses unique patented auto-calibration, which makes the device very reliable, easy to use and economical to maintain.

Jun 1, 2005
Highways in Maine -Safer thanks to Vaisala technology

May 23, 2005
Huygens Probe Lands on Titan with Vaisala BAROCAP on board The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is an extremely ambitious effort in planetary space exploration.

May 13, 2005
US National Weather Service chooses Vaisala wind sensors

May 11, 2005
New Flagship Humidity Transmitter Series The HMT330 measures humidity and temperature in demanding industrial and meteorological applications. It includes a new measurement trend and history display and state-of-the-art Vaisala HUMICAP® measurement technology.

May 10, 2005
New Multi-Sensor Weather Transmitter WXT510 is a compact and lightweight multi-sensor weather transmitter that measures wind speed and direction, liquid precipitation, barometric pressure, temperature and relative humidity.

May 2, 2005
Vaisala's new clean room in operation

May 2, 2005
South African Weather Service Chooses Vaisala Thunderstorm Information System

Apr 1, 2005
Helsinki Mesoscale Testbed to be Launched

Apr 1, 2005
Hong Kong International Airport honored with Safety Awards for Lightning Systems

Mar 1, 2005
Vaisala supports US National Lightning Safety Awareness Week

Feb 9, 2005
Vaisala Sponsors Lightning Conference at 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting