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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Svenbreen mass balance stake network | |
Jakub Malecki
malecki.jk@gmail.com Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland |
Type: land platform (on ice)
Status: Operational Site info: Dataset of annual mass balances of Svenbreen, a small valley glacier in Central Spitsbergen, 2010/2011 - 2017/2018 To date (31st Jan 2020), the data have not been published in an article in a peer-reviewed journal, which is planned for 2021 or 2022, following the completion of ten years of measurements. It is possible that the exact values might differ slightly between this dataset and the planned paper due to differences in methodology, eg. updated glacier hypsometries. If this dataset is of your interest, please check Jakub Malecki's publication record for the most up-to-date data.. Core data: No |
Sverdrup snow bags | |
Ove Hermansen
oh@nilu.no Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 10143 Site info: Collaboration with Dartmouth College Core data: No |
Sverdrup sun photometer | |
Kerstin Stebel
kst@nilu.no Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 3274 Site info: On suntracker at Sverdrup. Informal part of POLAR-AOD http://www.ipy.org/index.php?ipy/detail/polar_aod/ Core data: No |
System for Analysis of Observations at Zenith | |
Tove Svendby
tms@nilu.no Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Site info: SAOZ network: http://saoz.obs.uvsq.fr/SAOZ-RT.html. Part of Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Changes (NDACC) Core data: No |
TEC monitor Sverdrup | |
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- Aberystwyth University |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational Core data: No |
Tether sonde | |
Marion Maturilli
Marion.Maturilli@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: air platform (mobile)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 6525 Core data: No |
Thermo-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 |
Thermometer chain | |
Julia Boike, Niko Bornemann
Julia.Boike@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Operational RIS ids: 2950 Site info: Bayelva Core data: Yes |
Time-domain reflectometer and temperature sensors | |
Julia Boike, Niko Bornemann
julia.boike@awi.de Alfred Wegener Institute |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Closed RIS ids: 2950 Core data: No |
Time-lapse camera for snow cover extent monitoring | |
Bartłomiej Luks
luks@igf.edu.pl Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences |
Type: land platform (fixed)
Status: Partly operational RIS ids: 10218, 6823 Site info: The imagery covers the lower part of Fuglebekken catchment and the coastline of Isbjørnhamna Core data: No |
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