World Meteorological Organization

WMO International Conference on Automatic Weather Stations (ICAWS-2017) 

"Automatic weather stations for environmental intelligence - the AWS in the 21st century"

Offenbach am Main, Germany, 24-26 October 2017

 

Full report and presentations are available here. 

Programme

	Opening Ceremony
	Topic 1: Initiating automation and supporting migration from manual to automated measurements
	Topic 2: Communications, data transmission, encoding, archiving and storage
	Topic 3: Sustainability of the measurements
	Topic 4: New developments, interoperability, intelligent measurements, and integration
	Panel Discussion Sessions
	Joint Photo

 

Opening Ceremony
Welcome address Prof Gerhard Adrian, Permanent Representative of Germany with WMO		[rec]
Welcome address from WMO Dr Wenjian Zhang, Assistant Secretary General, WMO Secretariat	[ppt]	[rec]
Automatic Weather Stations at Deutscher Wetterdienst Dr Jochen Dibbern, Director of Technical Infrastructure and Operations at DWD	[ppt]	[rec]
Evolving CIMO Strategy and its relationship to AWS Dr Bruce Forgan, Vice-president of CIMO	[ppt]	[rec]

 

 

Topic 1: Initiating automation and supporting migration from manual to automated measurements
KN1_1: Overarching Automated Weather Stations (AWS) Issues Dr Jitze van der Meulen (Netherlands)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_1: Modernisation of the National Meteorological Measurements Network in Croatia Mr Stjepan Ivatek-Šahdan (Croatia) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_3: Automation of Surface Observing Network in BMKG Mr Agung Saifulloh Majid (Indonesia) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_5: AWS for Building Regional Climate Capacity in the Caribbean Dr Jonathan Cox (Barbados) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_6: Development and status of AWS Observation at KMA Mr Chulwoon Choi (Republic of Korea) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_7: The Shipborne European Common Automatic Weather Station (EUCAWS) Mr Jean-Baptiste Cohuet (France) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_8: The AWS based operational urban network in Milano: achievements and open questions Dr Giuseppe Frustaci  (Italy) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_9: Managing the transition from human cloud observations to automatic cloud measurements at an AWS Dr Reinout Boers (Netherlands) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_10: Guidance on Replacement of Mercury-based and Obsolete Meteorological Instruments Mr Drago Groselj (Slovenia) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_11: Assessment and selection of regional automatic weather stations in China based on RRR principle of WMO Prof Jianxia Guo (China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_12: Experiences in Rolling out an AWSs Network at KMD Mr David Ndiritu Muchemi (Kenya)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_14: Problematic Issues of Automation of Meteorological Observations: Ukrainian Experience Dr Viacheslav Manukalo (Ukraine)  et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O1_15: Desktop analysis of commercially available “All in One" and "Compact" weather stations - How well can we do it? Dr Jane Warne (Australia)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
Posters
P1_3 Rainfall monitoring system in Venezuela Mr Angenir Barrios (Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P1_5 Sterela’s Neptune maritime automatic weather stations to be used onboard ship Mrs Alexis Dejoie (France) et el.	[pdf]		[rec]
P1_7 Parallel measurements at German climate reference stations: DWD’s approach to compare manual vs. automatic observations Dr Frank Kaspar (Germany) et el.	[pdf]
P1_9 Procurement Process for new Sensors at DWD Dr Jan Lenkeit (Germany)	[pdf]
P1_14 The impact of changing from Conventional Instruments to Automatic Observing Platforms in Uganda Mr Andrew Ssali (Uganda)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P1_17 AWS Network of HNMS: A brief presentation and the experience gained of its use Mr Nikolaos Kalamaras (Greece)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P1_18 Automatic Meteorological Stations for the Costa Rica’s Environmental Intelligence Mrs Marta Eugenia Pereira Molina (Costa Rica)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P1_19 Transition from manual to automatic measurement: Should CIMO create a training workshop? Mr Mike Molyneux (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)	[pdf]	[ppt]

 

Topic 2 : Communications, data transmission, encoding, archiving and storage
KN2-1: Harmonized operational observation data production at FMI Mrs Minna Huuskonen (Finland) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O2_1: Communications, data transmission on AWS network of Kyrgyzhydromet Mr Ruslan Ermatov (Kyrgyzstan)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O2_3: Integrating European Common Automatic Weather Station (EUCAWS) Data in Delayed Mode Data Streams at the Marine Data Climate Centre of Deutscher Wetterdienst Dr Axel Andersson (Germany) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O2_4: Changes in the measurements system and the impact on the homogeneity of long time series – A study based on parallel measurements from German reference stations Ms Lisa Hannak (Germany) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O2_5: Satellite services and products for Automatic Weather Stations Mrs Sophie Baudel (France) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
Posters
P2_6 Standardized Assessment of Marine Meteorological Data from Offshore Platforms Ms Tina Leiding (Germany) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P2_7 From the sensors to the models, integrated hydro-meteorological systems in NIMH – BAS, Bulgaria Mr Andrey Naldzhyan (Bulgaria) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]

 

Topic 3 : Sustainability of the measurements
KN3_1: Experiences with donor funded climate monitoring in the Pacific Mr Andrew Harper (New Zealand)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_1: Sustainability of the Measurement - A Panacea for Achieving Automatic Weather Stations for Environmental Intelligence in 21st Century Dr Stella Uche Obikwelu (Nigeria) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_3: Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System (AMeDAS) in Japan and field experiments to determine the effects of its observation environment Mr Takeyuki Ichihara (Japan) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_4: Quality control methodology for temperature data of Automatic Weather Stations with non-wooden radiation shield Mr Nuwan Kumarasinghe (Sri Lanka)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_6: OceanRAIN—the automatic shipboard Ocean Rainfall And Ice-phase precipitation measurement Network Dr Christian Klepp (Germany) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_7: Quality assurance for sensors at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) Mr Holger Doerschel (Germany)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_8: Field experiments to determine the effect of boundary fences on temperature observation Mr Hagiya Satoshi (Japan) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O3_9: Components of uncertainty in measurement by means of AWS Dr Graziano Coppa (Italy) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
Posters
P3_6 Experience with the operation of new automatic weather stations in Slovakia Dr Branislav Chvíla (Slovakia) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P3_7 Planning, data management, internal calibration and traceability procedures of the Italian operational urban network managed by FOMD Mr Savino Curci (Italy) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P3_11 Study of the Effectiveness of Commonly Used Rainfall Measuring Instruments in Measuring Rainfall Intensity in Malaysia Mr Nik Mohd Riduan Nik Osman (Malaysia) et el.	[pdf]
P3_12 Automated surface marine observations from European data buoys Dr Paul Poli (France) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P3_13 The Effect of Different Resolution Solar Radiation Data on the Radiation Exposure Ms Weiwei Wang (China)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]

 

Topic 4 : New developments, interoperability, intelligent measurements, and integration
KN4_1: The framework of next generation automatic weather station in China Dr Xiaozhong Cao (China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_1: Development of Innovative Technology to Provide Low-Cost Surface Atmospheric Observations in Data Sparse Regions Dr Paul Anthony Kucera (United States of America) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_2: Application of button-size temperature sensors for micro-climate study of the urban environment of Hong Kong Mr Ying Wa Chan (Hong Kong, China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_4: IT-Security for Meteorological Measuring Networks Mr Gerhard Pevny (Austria) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_5: SEA new efficient approach of code and data management in remote measuring networks Mr Bojan Cernac (Slovenia)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_6: Automatic Weather Station Design for demanding environments Mr Jorma Islander (Finland)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_7: Advancement of Community Weather Information Network through the Use of Low-cost Automatic Weather Station Mr Kwong Hung Tam (Hong Kong, China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_8: The Influence of the Radiation Effect of Louvred Screens on the Air Temperature Measurement Mr Jiade Yan (China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
O4_9: Method for Grade Evaluation of Automatic Meteorological Stations based on Satellite Data Prof Chenggang Wang (China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
Posters
P4_3 The heat is on: patented rain gauges technology for cold climates Dr Andrea Costantini (Italy)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P4_5 The introduction of a new type of intelligent tipping bucket rain sensor Mr Xuguang Li (China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P4_6 An intelligent framework of Automatic Weather Station Mr Jun Liu (China)	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P4_8 The introduction of the integrated processor unit Dr Fa Tao (China) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]	[rec]
P4_9 An IoT-based Automatic Station for gradient observation of Microclimate in Mountain Profile Mr Ning Li (China) et el.	[pdf]
P4_10 Sentinel: System for the remote calibration of pyranometers in the automatic meteorological stations network of the Meteorological Service of Cuba Mr Juan Carlos Peláez Chávez (Cuba) et el.	[pdf]	[ppt]
P4_11 The new automatic weather stations at DWD Dr Raoul Zimmermann (Germany)	[pdf]

 

 

Panel Discussion Sessions
Discussion Session 1: Automation of measurements – training needs and competencies (Mr Andrew Harper, Dr Stella Uche Obikwelu, Mr Mike Molyneux)	[rec]
Discussion Session 2: Working with non-NMHS (partner) data (Dr Volker Kurz, Mrs Minna Huuskonen, Mr Andrew Ssali)	[rec]
Discussion Session 3: Low-cost AWSs – opportunity or threat to meteorological measurements (Dr Jane Warne, Dr Paul Anthony Kucera, Dr Stephen Lau)	[rec]