Special Antarctic Monitoring - January 2018 | World Meteorological Organization

Special Antarctic Monitoring - January 2018

MONITORING PERIOD: 1-15 January 2018

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.XLS	CLIMAT MAP.KML

PREPARATION

PREPARING YOUR MONITORING RESULTS

Data to be monitored:
Stations with IIiii	XLS	PDF
Stations with alphabetical identifier D....D) on an experimental basis	XLS	PDF

MONITORING REFERENCE DATASETS

FIXED STATIONS INCLUDED IN AntON
SYNOP (Stations with IIiii)	TXT	XLS	XML	XSD
SYNOP (Stations with alphabetical identifier D....D (on an experimental basis))	-	-	-	-
TEMP	TXT	XLS	XML	XSD
CLIMAT	TXT	XLS	XML	XSD

SUPPORT FILES FOR METDATA MONITORING APPLICATION
Volume A (Antarctic)	TXT	XLS	XML	XSD