Special Antarctic Monitoring - January 2013 | World Meteorological Organization

Special Antarctic Monitoring - January 2013

MONITORING PERIOD: 1-15 January 2013

The specific monitoring on the exchange of Antarctic data (SAM) is carried out in January each year. All Antarctic collection stations, NMCs and centres with similar functions located on the principal routes by which Antarctic meteorological data enter the GTS (see the "Manual on the GTS"), RTHs and the WMCs operated by Members concerned are requested to participate in the specific monitoring.

The results of the SAM make it possible to compare the availability of the reports received from the Antarctic Observing Network (AntON) stations at the collecting centre, at RTHs and at MTN centres. The differences in the availability of data between centres are due to the following: differences of requirements in the reception of data, shortcomings in the relay of the data on the GTS, data not monitored, differences in the implementation of the monitoring procedures at centres.

ANALYSES

Summary of the Antarctic Collection System SYNOP, TEMP and CLIMAT	TABLE.XLS
Availability of SYNOP, TEMP PART A and CLIMAT data	SYNOP MAP.XLS	SYNOP MAP.KML
	TEMP MAP.XLS	TEMP MAP.KML
	CLIMAT MAP.XL	CLIMAT MAP.KML
Comparison of the availability of SYNOP, TEMP PART A, TEMP PART A, B, C D and CLIMAT data between Centres	SYNOP TABLE.XLS
	TEMP PART A - TABLE.XLS
	TEMP PART B - TABLE.XLS
	TEMP PART C - TABLE.XLS
	TEMP PART D - TABLE.XLS
	CLIMAT - TABLE.XLS

DATA TO BE MONITORED

Stations with IIiii	DOC	PDF
Stations with alphabetical identifier D....D) on an experimental basis	DOC	PDF

MONITORING REFERENCE DATASETS

FIXED STATIONS INCLUDED IN AntON

SYNOP (Stations with IIiii)	TXT
SYNOP (Stations with alphabetical identifier D....D (on an experimental basis))	TXT
TEMP	TXT
CLIMAT	TXT

SUPPORT FILES FOR METDATA MONITORING APPLICATION

Volume A (Antarctic)	TXT	XML	XSD
GLO	TXT	XML	XSD