Capabilities
What the center leverages
The founding concept names four assets: the New York State Mesonet, high resolution urban weather modeling, urban climate expertise, and strong ties to the industry.
NYS Early Warning Weather Detection System
New York State Mesonet
Provide the best met data, the best products, and the best services possible with the goal of saving lives and property while building a smart weather economy!
Standard, profile, flux, snow, urban, roadside
Assets
Observing and modeling
New York State Mesonet
New York's early warning weather detection system, operated by ASRC and named in the founding concept as the center's primary observational leverage.
- Six networks: standard, profile, flux, snow, urban and roadside
- 216 stations
- Reports every 5 minutes
- Over 12.4 billion observations archived
- Queens SuperStation — standard, profiler and flux instrumentation at a single site
Metropolitan observing assets
The observing picture over New York City shown in the founding concept.
- NYS Mesonet stations and profiler sites
- NYC Micronet / ConEd stations
- ASOS network sites at EWR, LGA, JFK and TEB
- NYS radar coverage mapped to 1 km above ground level
High resolution urban weather modeling
Urban weather forecasting and aviation route mapping, produced with the Coastal Urban Environmental Research Group (CUERG).
- WRF domain 3 at 1 km, with hourly interpolation
- 2-m temperature and 10-m winds
- Column cloud cover
- Coastline and borough boundaries from the NYS building-footprint index
Example
NYC UAM Forecast Briefing
Sea-breeze evolution during heatwave · WRF D03 1-km · Thursday, July 2, 2026
Surface observations · 8:00 AM
| Site | Temperature | Wind |
|---|---|---|
| MAN | 88.5°F | NW 5.3 kt |
| LGA | 87.9°F | NW 7.0 kt |
| JFK | 83.9°F | SSW 3.7 kt |
| EWR | 88.7°F | NNW 5.4 kt |
Panels
- 2-m Temperature + 10-m Winds (kt)
- Column Cloud Cover
Routes mapped
- MAN → EWR
- MAN → JFK
- LGA → JFK
Routes/sites: Kaiden · Radar/Micronet: June Wang · Coast/boroughs: NYS building-footprint index. Produced with the Coastal Urban Environmental Research Group (CUERG). Example from the CLAUW founding concept; not an operational product.