Definition of AFOS

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AFOS

The term 'AFOS' as it applies to the area of the weather can be defined as ' Automation of Field Operations and Services. Computer system linking NWS offices for the transmission of weather data. This system was installed in the early to mid 1980s and it is being replaced by Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)'.

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