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How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface

How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface. Overview Self-registration walk through and listing the data Creation of user-accounts Hands-on experiments Optional on-line demonstrations. How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface - cont’d - Self-registration walk through and listing the data.

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How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface

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  1. How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface Overview Self-registration walk through and listing the data Creation of user-accounts Hands-on experiments Optional on-line demonstrations

  2. How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface-cont’d-Self-registration walk through and listing the data Jani Poutiainen / FMI Mikko Parviainen / FMI 13.2.2007

  3. EMAIL ACCOUNT AND ACCESS IS NEEDED TO GET PASSWORD!

  4. Student, Testbed course 2007 PASSWORD IS IMMEDIATELY EMAILED TO YOU

  5. 1. PRIVACY STATEMENT / PERSONAL FILE DESCRIPTION Personal Data Act (523/1999) 10 § The controller Finnish Meteorological Institute P.O. Box 503 FI-00101 Helsinki Finland tel. +358-9-19291 fax. +358-9-179 581 The name of the register Helsinki Testbed project - On-line weather data service The purpose of the register The register is collected in order to monitor the purposes for usage of Testbed data. Content of the register Name Organization Username and password (stored encrypted) The purpose for usage of the service Electronic mail address (e-mail) The usage of collected information The register and the contact information within will only be used in the context of Helsinki Testbed Project. Information will not be transferred to any third parties. Data protection principles The data in register is only accessible to the controller and the data is processed in compliance with good processing practice. 2. HELSINKI TESTBED (HTB) POLICIES FOR RESEARCHER'S INTERFACE HTB is primarily a research project. Data is provided "as is" and any data is subject to revision. No warranty, condition, undertaking or term, express or implied, statutory or otherwise as to the condition, quality, accuracy, performance, fitness for purpose of the data provided, or non-infringement in respect of rights of third parties is given or assumed by HTB project and all such warranties, conditions, undertakings and terms are hereby excluded.

  6. L location, P parameter, LVL level, M member, V version

  7. 4-digit QC output: <flagobject>0010</flagobject> 0 unchecked 1 ok

  8. e.g. comma separated columns are also available for XML queries

  9. e.g. ground temperatures, manual precipitation, snow depth, snow density SW up, SW down, LW up, LW down in Pirkkola road weather station Helsinki university measurements at mast/building roof

  10. Off-line data sets: radar

  11. Off-line data sets: Weather maps

  12. Off-line data sets: Road weather

  13. Off-line data sets: WXT_monthly_data

  14. Information sources concerning the data: General / FAQ: http://testbed.fmi.fi/docs/faq.html Station pics: http://testbed.fmi.fi/Stations.en.html Selected instrumentation: http://testbed.fmi.fi/Instrumentation.en.html Researcher’s interface off-line data sets: See readme files in each data directory. General data questions: jani.poutiainen (at) fmi.fi Web specific questions: mikko.parviainen (at) fmi.fi Vaisala specific data questions: heikki.turtiainen (at) vaisala.com

  15. What plotting packages to use – other than Researcher’s Interface tool Some choices: • Octave http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ • Matlab http://www.mathworks.com/ • Grads http://www.iges.org/grads/ • GMT http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ • Gnuplot http://www.gnuplot.info/ • IDL http://www.ittvis.com/idl/ • MS Excel http://www.microsoft.com/Excel/ • Etc.

  16. Learn to find data: hands-on experiments • Moderate to heavy large scale precipitation 6.8.2005 • WXT data, like Kirkkonummi Svartviken • Radar image(s) • Weather map 7.8. 00utc Rain intensity Kirkkonummi Svartviken 12utc  20:30 utc

  17. Sea breeze 11.5.2006 • WXT data by the coast line, like Porvoo Pirttisaari • Malmi wind profiler data • images • cns-type of data file • Espoo Kivenlahti mast data

  18. 2m temperatures at 12:30 local time Malmi profiler 11.5.2006 Porvoo, Pirttisaari Temperature Wind speed Wind direction

  19. Air quality episode 9.8.2006 • YTV air quality data in Helsinki area • Malmi doppler lidar data • Ceilometer data in Malmi (”query database”) • FMI-AWS data in Helsinki Kaisaniemi 9.8.2006 9th August 2006 between 10:40 – 11:00 UTC.

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