With the development of the society and national economy,the damage caused by meteorological disasters becomes more and more serious,so it is necessary to establish a meteorological disaster monitoring and alarming system as well as an emergency management system for reducing and protecting from meteorological disasters.It is important to adopt mobile Automatic Weather Stations(AWS) to acquire surface real-time meteorological data,thus to provide meteorological services for decision makers on emergent meteorological disasters and other environmental disasters.A review is made on the development of comprehensive mobile sounding systems home and abroad as well as the current status of the mobile meteorological sounding service for emergency response in China.Some technological capabilities and design principles of AWS for satisfying the emergency-responding meteorological environment sounding service are discussed.