Models for weather that include data from amateur stations?

[Stephen Tashi]

TL;DR

Do any organizations run mathematical models that predict weather and also incorporate data from amateur weather stations?

I have the impression (I've not actually researched the matter) that some online weather services publish data from weather stations set up by amateurs. Do any organizations incorporate such data in their weather prediction models? I'd think that using such data would involve a sophisticated analysis of whether the data itself was reliable.

 

[fresh_42]

Summary:: Do any organizations run mathematical models that predict weather and also incorporate data from amateur weather stations?

Which major country does not?

 

[jim mcnamara]

Middle and high schools (secondary schools) in New Mexico have a program for setting up a school weather station. The data is kept and forwarded - the station has strict specifications IIRC, depending on what it does. There are vendors for kits. It is under the auspices of NOAA. I think it is kept as part of the microclimatic data set.

Here is one not far from where I live in NM - bosque is the Spanish term for the gallery forest along the Rio Grande river.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_forest

https://bemp.org/weather-stations-built-high-schoolers-bosque-climate-data/

@Stephen Tashi do a google search down your way.