T.R . THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY

OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4-6 December-2006

T.R.THE MINISTRY OF

ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY

TURKISH STATE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICETURKISH STATE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (TSMS)(TSMS)


Operational Applications Of Awos

Network In Turkey

Soner KARATAŞ

Electronics Engineer M.Sc.

Expert at TSMS

Electronic Observing Systems Division


CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE POLICIES

3. FUTURE WORKS

4. CONCLUSION


1. INTRODUCTIONLocation and Geographical Profile of Turkey

Turkey is situated in Southern Europe between Asia and Europe.


1. INTRODUCTIONLocation and Geographical Profile of Turkey

The actual area of Turkey is 814,578 km2, of which 790,200 km2 are in Asia and 24,378 km2 are located in Europe.

Mountains cover big part of country and these mountains run parallel to the coasts.

Significant differences in climatic conditions arise between regions.


1. INTRODUCTION

Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) was founded in 1937.

From that time to nowadays, many improvements have been realized by TSMS in observation stations and observation methods.

TSMS


1. INTRODUCTION

The first AWOSs were established in 1987. Now, The AWOS network comprises 240 stations.


Present Awos Network in Turkey1. INTRODUCTION

34 of those 240 stations have been operated at the airports for the aviation purposes.


Present Awos Network in Turkey1. INTRODUCTION

Remaining 206 AWOSs used climatologic and synoptic purposes.


Awos Network in Turkey1. INTRODUCTION

A new project for installing 150 AWOSs in the eastern part of the country is still under process.

Thus, whole country will be covered with automated weather observing systems.


2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES

Quality of meteorological data and economical span of instruments depend on maintenance policies of institutes.

Maintenance policy of TSMS on the basis of, in general;

Protective Maintenance

Corrective Maintenance

Calibration

Quality Control of Data

General


Protective Maintenance is realized by operators, local technicians and trained technical staff.

Daily, weekly and monthly maintenance procedures are realized by operators and local technicians.

On the other hand more specific issues are realized by trained technical staff at the six months interval.

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Protective Maintenance


In case of any failure on the systems, corrective maintenance is applied to operate the systems regularly.

Firstly, local technicians take necessary actions with remote support from centre office.

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Corrective Maintenance

If the failures can not be repaired by local technicians, technical staff from the center office reach the station as soon as possible and solve the problem.


TSMS is planning to reach international standards on all related issues. For this reason, TSMS has started to some works to be able to receive ISO-9001 Quality Management Systems Certificate.


K -Q TSE-ISO-EN

9000

Related divisions have supported these works by preparing maintenance forms, failure tables, related procedures and other documents related with AWOS operations.

Calibration and International Standards

TSE: Turkish Standards Institutes



Renovation of calibration laboratory works continue to ensure condition of ISO-17025.

TSMS plans to provide international traceability for the AWOS instruments with these works.

Calibration and International Standards


Quality control of data generated by AWOSs is another important component of those works. New quality control algorithm produced for synoptic observations are still under investigation to adapt AWOSs.


Observation

Sending and

Archiving of Data

Quality ControlSoftwar

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UsersOperator

Control

Picture belongs to Dr. İbrahim Sönmez-Ref5

Quality Control


TSMS intended to have trained technical staff to operate and maintain the AWOSs smoothly. So, staff distribution of TSMS in the headquarters became as showed in the table below:


Bsc Msc Total

Electronics Engineer 4 3 7

Machine Engineer 1 1

Industrial Engineer 1 1

Agriculture Engineer 1 1 2

Physics Engineer 1 1

Electronics Teacher 1 1

Electronics technician 3

Total 16

Personnel Structure


In general, TSMS intends to apply its training policy as continuous training in cooperation with national and international organizations. For this purpose, our staff participated in the national and international activities such as training courses, technical conferences, seminars and exhibitons.

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Training Policy and Cooperation


Trained staff trains the operators and local technicians every year regularly. In 2006, four different trainings for aviation purposed AWOS were realized to train the operators and technicians.

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES National Trainings for Local Technicians (Regularly)


TSMS has organized international AWOS training courses to give contribution to the capacity building activities for member countries of WMO. To exchange the experiences and information between the meteorological services of different countries are the main objectives of these courses.

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES International Trainings for Exchanging the Experiences


3. FUTURE WORKS

Our future works can be stated as below;

To continue modernization program and to extend AWOS network covering all parts of Turkey.

To improve research activities to be able to conduct technology policies of TSMS in the field of AWOS.

To participate scientific and technical studies to be able to share experiences and knowledge.


4. CONCLUSION

Modernization of meteorological observation network programme has provided great progress and technological substructure in Turkey.

Experiences on operations and maintenance of AWOS network have been obtained during elapsed time.

TSMS will continue to improve the knowledge and capacity to be able to operate and maintain the AWOS network smoothly.


SLIDES OF SOME WORKSSLIDES OF SOME WORKS


Protective Maintenance


Corrective Maintenance


Calibration Laboratory


International Cooperations


International Trainings


National Trainings


Turkish State Meteorological Services:

www.meteor.gov.tr

Regional Metetorological Training Center (RMTC):

http://rmtc.meteor.gov.tr

Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) :

www.tse.gov.tr

RELATED LINKS


1. Guide to Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observations, WMO-No.8, 2006

2. Routine and Preventive Maintenance, Met Monitoring Guide, www.webmet.com/met_monitoring/85.html

3. Modernization of Observation Network in Turkey, Mr. Ercan BUYUKBAS,Poster Presentation, P4(2),TECO2005

4. Data quality management,Soner KARATAS, Poster Presentation, P3(33),TECO2005

5. AWOS_DMI_QAQC_2.ppt, Dr İbrahim SONMEZ, Power Point Presentation, TSMS-2005

REFERENCES


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