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Welcome to the Juneau Airport Wind System (JAWS) Home Page.

You can access all the (Prototype) JAWS web pages and applications from this site.

JAWS Wind Information Pages

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JAWS Prototype Turbulence Alerts / Displays

   Currently a prototype version of the turbulence alerting system is being installed and tested.
There are two prototype displays of JAWS turbulence alerts and related information that are available.
These new displays are Java applications that require the use of Java ® Web Start. See the download page for more information.

Check out the on-line Help Pages for the new displays to see a description of the display contents.


Alpha Display


Gamma Display

JAWS Anemometer and Profiler data in netCDF format are available for download from this page.

This location lists the netcdf files that are available. Each file contains data from one day and one site. The first 7 characters in each filename are the year and the day of the year, e.g., 2005105 would be April 15, 2005. The last two characters of the filename is the site id as shown in the table below.

AnemometersProfilers
ecEaglecrestlcLemon Creek
mrMt RobertsndNorth Douglas Island
smSheep MountainsdSouth Douglas Island
pdPederson Hill 
rwRunway West (08)
cfCenter Field
reRunway East (26)

 Profiler site names are preceded by 'L'.

These files contain horizontal and vertical wind data up to about 2400 meters altitude.

Disclaimer: The information contained in these web pages is considered experimental and is provided for informational purposes only. Although attempts are made to make the data timely and accurate, no guarantees as to its suitability for any purpose whatsoever are made.