The Observation Facility Catalogue has been developed to provide an overview of the observation facilities which collect SIOS data. An observation facility can be one instrument or a collection of instruments, e.g. a weather station, and is a term used by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The annotation is standardised following the WMO standards as far as possible, in order to make entries unambiguous and interoperable internationally.
The purpose of the catalogue is to make better use of the existing research infrastructure by facilitating the search for given parameters and their location. In this way, duplication can be avoided and new measurements can be co-located with existing ones. The catalogue may also be used to gain a simple overview of collected parameters and how to access the data. The search interface allows users to search for GCMD keywords or to filter by status, type or observatory. The map interface may be used to search in a particular area.
The catalogue was developed by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, with input from a task force consisting of representatives from the Norwegian Polar Institute and the Alfred Wegener Institute. NySMAC members and RICC gave valuable input on the test version.
To enter data in the Observation Facility Catalogue, you must be logged in and have assigned the role "RI responsible" by the administrator. Please contact the Observing Network Infrastructure Officer to have this role assigned to your account.
SUBMIT DATA TO THE OBSERVATION FACILITY CATALOGUE
More information: How to enter data into the Observation Facility Catalogue (pdf)
In addition to the SIOS records, this catalogue has the option to display research infrastructures from the Greenland Integrated Observing System (GIOS). The default view displays only SIOS research infrastructures. To see GIOS research infrastructures, use the menu to the right to filter. Records are fetched from the Isaaffik website.
The REST endpoint (see the right panel below the filters), can be used to query the catalogue in a machine-readable way. See an example on how to query the json endpoint in this notebook:
Observation Facility | Variables | Contact | Additional Information |
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Pyrgeometer | |
Angelo Viola, Mauro Mazzola
angelopietro.viola@cnr.it; mauro.mazzola@cnr.it National Research Council of Italy |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 3471 Core data: No |
Radiance nephelometer | |
Mauro Mazzola
mauro.mazzola@cnr.it National Research Council of Italy |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 3693 Core data: No |
Radiation station | |
Stephen Hudson
stephen.hudson@npolar.no Norwegian Polar Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 6807 Core data: No |
Radioclide at Plateau Berget (RN49) | |
Morten Sickel
Morten@norsar.no NORSAR |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Site info: The radionuclide station at Plateau Berget (RN49) is a part of the IMS International Monitoring System (IMS) which is designed to detect any nuclear explosion conducted on Earth, to verify compliance with the Treaty Core data: No |
Radiosonde | |
Marion Maturilli
Marion.Maturilli@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: air platform (mobile)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 1118 Site info: Part of WMO GTS and GRUAN networks; WMO Station Number: 01 004 Core data: No |
Rain sampler | |
Yutaka Kondo
kondo.yutaka@nipr.ac.jp National Institute for Polar Research |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 10458 Core data: No |
Riometer (30MHz) | |
Chris Hall/Magnar Gullikstad
chris.hall@uit.no UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 6696 Core data: No |
Riometer (40MHz) | |
Chris Hall/Magnar Gullikstad
chris.hall@uit.no UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 6696 Core data: No |
S1 | |
Manuel Bensi
mbensi@ogs.it National Institute of Oceanography and applied Geophysics (OGS) |
Type: underwater platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 10969 Site info: The mooring S1, operational since June 2014, is located in the eastern Fram Strait, south-West offshore Svalbard region. Here, water masses, strongly influenced by the interaction between Atlantic and Arctic waters and by local atmospheric forcing, substantially contribute to driving the global thermohaline circulation. In this region, there is remarkable variability in the system due to several forcing mechanisms (e.g., atmospheric, internal, tidal, and shelf dynamics) that play an important role, especially in the upper layer. On the contrary, it is not completely clear which processes are responsible for the inter-annual and seasonal deep flow variability in the western offshore Spitsbergen region. The mooring S1 is specifically designed to collect ocean parameters (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, particulate flux, ocean currents) in the deep layer, covering approximately the last 150-250 m of the water column. From 2022 it collects data from 500m depth to the bottom. The mooring was deployed for the first time in June 2014 in the framework of the Eurofleets project PREPARED. It is maintained by OGS and CNR-ISP (Italy), and since 2017 with the collaboration of the Italian Navy Hydrographic Institute. From 2022, S1 gained the contribution of the NATO CMRE, which implemented the observatory with more sensors to collect data in the Atlantic Water layer. Core data: Yes |
SIOS Research Aircraft | |
Agnar Sivertsen
agsi@norceresearch.no NORCE |
Type: air platform (mobile)
Status: Operational SIOS project: SIOS-InfraNor Core data: Yes |
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