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The Pierre Auger Observatory is equipped with a sophisticated atmospheric monitoring system that has been operating smoothly for about 20 years. E.g., it provides hourly corrections to cosmic-ray data recorded by the Fluorescence Detector as well as updates on cloud conditions, ensuring high quality data. In recent years, new tools have been integrated in addition to the standard instruments: monitoring the electric field above the observatory has become more and more important, particularly for the Radio Detector, which is part of the Auger Observatory upgrade. Additionally, a new method for producing cloud maps in the field-of-view of the fluorescence telescopes using Night Sky Background data has been developed, which will replace the infrared cloud cameras, the standard devices used so far. In this contribution, the upgrades to the atmospheric monitoring system of the Pierre Auger Observatory will be described.
