Transcript T.R. THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY TURKISH STATE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (TSMS) 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 SERVICE
(TSMS)
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Operational Applications Of Awos
Network In Turkey
Soner KARATAŞ
Electronics Engineer M.Sc.
Expert at TSMS
Electronic Observing Systems Division
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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE POLICIES
3. FUTURE WORKS
4. CONCLUSION
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1. INTRODUCTION
Location and Geographical Profile of Turkey
Turkey is situated in Southern Europe between Asia and
Europe.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Location 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.
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1. INTRODUCTION
TSMS
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.
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1. INTRODUCTION
The first AWOSs were established in 1987. Now, The AWOS
network comprises 240 stations.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Present Awos Network in Turkey
34 of those 240 stations have been operated at the airports
for the aviation purposes.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Present Awos Network in Turkey
Remaining 206 AWOSs used climatologic and synoptic
purposes.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Awos Network in Turkey
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.
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
General
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
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Protective Maintenance
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.
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Corrective 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.
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.
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Calibration and International Standards
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.
TSE: Turkish Standards Institutes
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Calibration and International Standards
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.
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Quality Control
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
Control
Software
Operator
Control
Users
Picture belongs to Dr. İbrahim Sönmez-Ref5
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Personnel Structure
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
Physics Engineer
1
1
Electronics Teacher
1
1
1
2
Electronics technician
3
Total
16
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
Training Policy and Cooperation
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.
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
National Trainings for Local Technicians (Regularly)
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.
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2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES
International Trainings for Exchanging the Experiences
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.
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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.
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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.
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SLIDES OF SOME WORKS
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Protective Maintenance
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Corrective Maintenance
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Calibration Laboratory
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International Cooperations
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International Trainings
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National Trainings
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RELATED LINKS
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
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REFERENCES
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
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T.R.
THE MINISTRY OF
ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE
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