This 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.
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.
How to enter data into the Observation Facility Catalogue (pdf)
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.
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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Hornsund Seismological Station HSP | |
Kaj Michałowski
kaj@igf.edu.pl Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Site info: Seismometer placed in the concrete fundament protected by the small wooden house is located in the vicinity of Polish Polar Station in Hornsund. Seismometer is powered using PSP resources. The data is transfered by cable to PSP and published online in open access catalogues, e.g.: https://ds.iris.edu/mda/PL/HSPB/ Core data: No |
Hukseflux flux plate | |
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 |
Hydrological gauging station | |
Harald Songe
haso@nve.no Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 1668 Site info: Ny-Ålesund (scientific area) Core data: No |
Hygrometer | |
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 |
Hygrothermometer | |
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 |
Hyperspectral spectrometer (FLOX-Ocean Optics). | |
Hans Tømmervik
hans.tommervik@nina.no Norwegian Institute for Nature Research |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational SIOS project: SIOS-InfraNor RIS ids: 11326 Site info: The hyperspectral spectrometer (FLOX-Ocean Optics) at the EddyCovariance facility (carbonflux tower) in Adventdalen will give time-series of very detailed spectral properties (spectral resolution <1 nm) included sun induced fluorescence (of vegetation which will be used for calibration of NDVI-sensors in Adventdalen. The project (SIOS Instrument #49) is part of the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System and is approved by Longyearbyen lokalstyre. |
ID2 | |
Manuel Bensi
mbensi@inogs.it National Institute of Oceanography and applied Geophysics (OGS) |
Type: underwater platform (fixed)
Status: Closed RIS ids: 10969 Site info: The mooring ID2, operational from June 2014 to June 2016 and from July 2018 until October 2019, was located in the eastern Fram Strait along the western offshore Svalbard margin, at approximately 1044 m depth. It was deployed together to its twin system S1, located about 170 km south from ID2. 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, 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 ID2 was specifically designed to collect ocean parameters (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, sediment flux, ocean currents) in the deep layer, covering approximately the last 150 m of the water column. The mooring was maintained by OGS and CNR-ISP (Italy), and in 2018-2019 was deployed/recovered in the framework of the collaboration with Italian Navy Hydrographic Institute (High North programme, cruises conducted with r/v Alliance) Core data: No |
IR camera | |
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 |
Imaging reometer | |
Hu Hongqiao
- The Polar Research Institute of China |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Core data: No |
Inner Tempelfjorden (TF) Mooring | |
Ragnheid Skogseth
Ragnheid.Skogseth@unis.no The University Centre in Svalbard |
Type: underwater platform (fixed)
Status: Closed Core data: No |
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