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

PREPARATION
Invitation Letter
Principal routes by which Antarctic meteorological data enter the GTS
Procedures for SAM
Format for SAM
Focal point nomination form

 

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

 

Contact the WMO Secretariat: jbest@wmo.int

Data Sets and Analyses
AGM Archive
SMM Archive
SAM Archive