Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
Road weather forecasting
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
In our previous blog post , we focused on how weather impacts road users and their safety. One key conclusion: Combining today’s connected car...
South Asian Lightning Network SALNet initiated
- Weather & Environment
- Meteorology
The South Asia Lightning Network (SALNet) was initiated in a remarkable first meeting on June 25 - 26. This meeting of lightning interests in...
Marching out to Mars! Why are researchers interested in the red planet?
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
The Earth's neighbour, Mars, is an enticing research subject for atmospheric researchers: the atmosphere of this barren planet is like a...
How does Vaisala detect lightning?
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
How can Vaisala detect lightning around the world ? How can sensors at a small number of locations detect lightning so far away? Angles and...
Shelters from the storm: How wind lidar is keeping ports safe and operational
- Maritime
- Weather & Environment
(For more, see "Ports in a Storm," co-authored by Ludovic Thobois and Remy Parmentier of Leosphere, a Vaisala company, in Meteorological...
Managing megacities: How scanning lidar is protecting increasingly city-bound populations
- Meteorology
(For more, see "City Limits," co-authored by Ludovic Thobois and Remy Parmentier of Vaisala, in Meteorological Technology International.) With...
Lightning safety around the world
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
Huge amounts of lightning occur around the world, and over two billion lightning events have been detected each of the last five years! These...
Creating space-proof technology
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
Vaisala’s pressure and humidity sensors are soon on their way to Mars once again as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, in collaboration...
Staying lightning safe in the great outdoors
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
For more than 15 years, we’ve been saying: “When thunder roars, go indoors”. And in 2016, “See a flash, dash inside” was introduced. It’s just...
Lightning safety for your business
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
The threat of thunderstorms around your facility provides challenges around keeping personnel and customers safe while also minimizing...
Q&A from our webinar: Fast and efficient viral vaccines purification by sucrose density gradient
- Industrial Measurements
- Life Science
- Liquid Measurements
In this blog, we answer questions we received during our webinar " Fast and efficient viral vaccines purification by sucrose density gradient "...
Lightning data to kick off Lightning Safety Awareness Week
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
A huge amount of lightning occurs around the world and in the United States – more than you might think. Every cloud-to-ground flash represents...
International collaboration takes Vaisala and FMI to Mars, again
- Innovations and Inspirations
- Space exploration
Vaisala’s technology is known to withstand harsh environments, and what environment would be more unforgiving than space? In July, Vaisala’s...
Built to survive, even outside: the Vaisala Indigo500 Series
- Industrial Manufacturing and Processes
- Industrial Measurements
Some of our customers have applications that require measurement transmitters to be installed outside, so the Vaisala Indigo500 and its family...
Optimizing wind farm performance with WindCube nacelle-mounted lidar
- Renewable energy
The challenge: Underperforming wind farms, verify turbine measurements Valeco develops, finances, builds, and operates renewable energy projects...
Safe and efficient airport operations: Kenya Meteorological Department
- Aviation
The challenge: Limited weather data leaving too much up in the air Weather affects the efficiency and safety of almost every operation at an...
Chile Case Study: Monitoring aviation safety in diverse climates
- Aviation
The challenge: Ensure flight frequency and safety in remarkably different climates and locales Chile's civil aviation authority, Dirección...
Striking history: Lightning and the Washington Monument
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
It probably comes as no surprise that those of us at Vaisala made up more than a handful of the more than 11 million views of the Washington...
Dealing with Waked Measurements in Wind Energy Assessments
- Renewable energy
- Weather & Environment
- Wind energy
As wind industry buildout continues, it is more common to encounter measurements with data collected in a waked environment. What was once...
Continuing Current Dataset identifies the lightning strokes with potential to be the most destructive
- Meteorology
- Weather & Environment
In 2018, we announced a first-of-its-kind technology to identify cloud-to-ground lightning strokes that produce continuing current . This...