Recorded presentation10A.2
SwissMetNet : a unique platform for surface and upper air meteorological data collection and transfer
Yves-Alain Roulet, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland; and B. Landl and B. Calpini
Among its duties, MeteoSwiss is responsible for the operation and maintenance of a meteorological and climatological network guaranteeing regular measurements over the entire Swiss territory. Under the project SwissMetNet, MeteoSwiss is currently renewing and extending its ground-based network. With this project, MeteoSwiss will have a state-of-the art unified network, composed of 130 standard automatic weather stations, each of them measuring ca. 20 meteorological parameters and 20 housekeeping values.
In a first phase, the renewal of the existing automatic climatological and meteorological network will be completed by end of 2008 (70 stations). In a second phase (2009-2012), the complementary network (mainly alarm stations) and the conventional climatic network (with daily observations) will be upgraded and integrated into the SwissMetNet network (60 stations).
Moreover, in a standardization effort for data collection, transfer and dissemination, MeteoSwiss aims at integrating other measuring technologies in the SwissMetNet platform, in particular upper air remote sensing observation: a new network of wind profilers and passive micro-wave temperature profilers equipped over the Swiss Plateau is already connected to SwissMetNet, while novel technologies such as operational Raman lidar will soon be.
Session 10A, Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use
Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Room 121BC
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