Difference between meteorological office and weather station?

What is the difference between a weather station and a meteorological station?

　　What is the difference between a weather station and a meteorological station? There is actually a relationship between the two. Regardless of the weather station, a monitoring device such as a weather station is built. Although the names differ by one word, the nature is different.

　　What is the difference between a weather station and a meteorological station?

　　A weather station is a related institution engaged in weather monitoring, weather forecast and warning, scientific research on meteorology, and providing weather services for agriculture, forestry, transport sector, farming and other fields. It is an instrument used to carry out real-time monitoring of weather data and environmental data. The main types include automatic weather stations, meteorological monitoring stations, hydrological monitoring stations, agro-meteorological stations, etc. The two are completely different in nature, but functionally, they are inseparable.

　　1. Different in nature

　　A weather station is a meteorological service, while a weather station is a specific environmental parameter monitoring device. Weather stations provide weather warnings and forecasts for the area they are responsible for. Weather stations are installed in a wider area, and are also widely used in areas such as highways, farmland, forests, lakes and oceans.

　　2. Similar functions

　　Both weather stations and meteorological stations need to carry out observations of meteorological parameters. Generally speaking, weather stations are set up in a selected area to observe wind speed, wind direction, pressure, temperature, humidity and other meteorological parameters near the ground. In addition, weather stations are equipped not only with weather stations, but also with high altitude observation equipment such as weather satellites.

　　A weather station is one of the most common types of equipment used by weather stations for weather observation and weather warning. It is not only used for weather observation, but also for guiding agricultural production and forest fire warnings, and has a wide range of uses.