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EMI European Meteorological Infrastructure
EUMETNET Composite Observing System EUCOS
Delivering In-Situ Data Now

• EUCOS Benefits
• EUCOS brings enhanced capabilities to the EMI
  which cannot be delivered on a national basis by
• Delivering more observations over the oceans
• Optimizing measurements from aircraft
• Improving numerical weather prediction results
  from better observational coverage
• Delivering a pan-European quality monitoring
  system
• Exchanging knowledge and information through the
  EUCOS Web Information Service
• Connecting the results from observing system
  experiments with other science programmes
• Burden sharing forintegrated programmes
• Providing cost compensation tonational
  operatorswhere their observationsbenefit all.

• EUCOS comprises
• The EUCOS observing network includes
• All European Automated Shipboard Aerological
  Programme (E-ASAP) ships
• Selected moored buoys and all European drifting
  buoys, Voluntary Observing Ships
• All European measurements from commercial
  aircraft (AMDAR)
• Selected European radiosonde stations and ocean
  platforms
• Selected European synoptic weather stations
• European wind profiler radars

For more information contact Jochen Dibbern,
Programme Manager Email Eucos.PMT_at_dwd.de http//w
ww.eucos.net
E-AMDAR The European AMDAR (Aircraft
Meteorological Data Relay) has access to more
than 600 aircraft from seven airlines. They
deliver 40 to 45,000 observations per day at
airports and at Flight Level. Data is used in
weatherforecasting to thebenefit of
aviationsafety as well asa wide range ofother
non-aviation users.
E-ASAP This programme provides anintegrated ship
borne aerologicalsystem for Europe

• 5800 soundings per year from 18 ships
• 6 nations participate with their existing systems
  
• Integration of soundings from Ocean Weather Ship
  Mike and Ekofisk Oil Platform
• Optimizing the overall system to reduce costs
• Delivering additional soundings on request for
  high impact weather situations

Distribution of soundings 2007
10 E-ASAP Container
E-AMDAR European and global observations

• E-WINPROF
• The main objectives of E-WINPROF are
• To co-ordinate the network of currently
• 26 European wind profiler (WP) radars
• Improvement of operational exchange of
• WP radar data in Europe
• Run a network hub for data processing and
  quality evaluation

• E-SURFMAR
• Co-ordinates and optimizes the surface-marine
  observations
• carried out by European Voluntary
• Observing Ships, moored and drifting buoys
• Mainly focuses on air pressure measurements at
  the sea surface since this parameter is essential
  to numerical weather prediction but cannot be
  provided by satellite observations
• Tries to increase the cost effectiveness of
  such observations through automation on ships
  and a better use of satellite communication
  systems for all platforms

Wind profiler plot

• Integrate new WP radars in the operational data
  exchange and use
• Support further deployments of wind profilers.
• Improve processing algorithms and quality control
  procedures to improve data quality

50 MHz

• Develop and standardize software for the data
  exchange
• Manage the data provision for Observing System
  Experiments

482 MHz
1,290 MHz