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EUMETNET

Tim Oakley

Met Office, Exeter, UK

•CIMO ET on Upgrading the Global Radiosonde Network – Geneva 3-7 November 2003

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What is EUMETNET?•EUMETNET is a network grouping 18

National Met. Serivces.

•Provides a framework to organise co-operative programmes.

•Members aim to develop their collective capabilities to serve environment

management & climate monitoring.

•Bring to all European users the best available quality of meteorological

information.

•Make more efficient the management of their collective resources

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EUMETNET Programmes

Observations (12 programmes) Data Communications (1) Forecasting (3) Environment & Climate (4) Research & Training. (2)

Website:- http://www.eumetnet.eu.org/

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Observations Programmes

EUCOS E-ASAP AWS SWS OBS-INFO Protection of Radio

Frequency

E-AMDAR SURFMAR PWS OPERA RADIOSONDE WINPROF

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Radiosonde.

Responsible member – UK (John Nash’s team)

‘Low key’ programme to provide/exchange information and test reports.

Website - http://www.metoffice.com/research/interproj/radiosonde/index.html

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(1)

(2)

(3)

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•Network Information

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Latest ECMWF Statistics

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WINPROF main objectives 2 year EUMETNET Project - started 1/7/2002 (follow CWINDE

network)

Harmonise and improve the existing exchange of all wind profiler (from National Met Services and Universities) and Weather radar profiler data in Europe.

Run and further develop a network hub for data processing and quality evaluation.

Integrate new wind profiler systems.

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WINPROF main objectives

Establish appropriate quality control procedures.

Define general quality standards and user requirement for operational use.

Work on improved processing algorithms to improve data quality/availability.

Provide expert support to members for wind profiler installations.

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Countries involved in the WINDPROF project

Germany: DWD responsible member France: Meteo France Austria: Austrocontrol Swistzerland : Meteo Swiss Finland : Finnish Met Institute UK: Met Office Portugal Belgium Ireland

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CURRENT WIND PROFILER EUROPEAN NETWORK

23 wp

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CURRENT WEATHER RADAR PROFILER NETWORK

27 WRP

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DATA FREQUENCY VIA GTS - 1700 MESSAGES/DAY (11 SITES)

VIA FTP-OUT(ASCII) - 144 MESSAGES/DAY (3 SITES)

VIA FTP-IN (BALTRAD) - 1750 MESSAGES/DAY (19 SITES)

VIA FTP-IN (ASCII) - 350 MESSAGES/DAY (4 SITES)

VIA FTP-IN (BUFR) - 240 MESSAGES/DAY (3 SITES)

VIA NETLINK (BUFR) - 48 MESSAGES/DAY (2 SITES)

VIA E-MAIL (ASCII) - 200 MESSAGES/DAY (5 SITES)

VIA E-MAIL (BUFR) - AVAILABLE - BUT NOT CURRENTLY USED

– TOTAL OF 4,250 MESSAGES/DAY (47 SITES)

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UK MONTHLY MODEL STATISTICS

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CWINDE WEB SITE

http://www.metoffice.com/research/interproj/cwinde/index.html

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Example of web page on C.W.I.N.D.E web site