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T. R. THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY TURKISH STATE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE (TSMS) OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

Operational Applications Of Awos Network In Turkey Soner KARATAŞ Electronics Engineer M. Sc. Expert at TSMS Electronic Observing Systems Division OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE POLICIES 3. FUTURE WORKS 4. CONCLUSION OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION Location and Geographical Profile of Turkey is situated in Southern Europe between Asia and Europe. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION Location and Geographical Profile of Turkey The actual area of Turkey is 814, 578 km 2, of which 790, 200 km 2 are in Asia and 24, 378 km 2 are located in Europe. Mountains cover big part of country and these mountains run parallel to the coasts. Significant differences in climatic conditions arise between regions. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION TSMS Turkish State Meteorological Service (TSMS) was founded in 1937. From that time to nowadays, many improvements have been realized by TSMS in observation stations and observation methods. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION The first AWOSs were established in 1987. Now, The AWOS network comprises 240 stations. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION Present Awos Network in Turkey 34 of those 240 stations have been operated at the airports for the aviation purposes. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION Present Awos Network in Turkey Remaining 206 AWOSs used climatologic and synoptic purposes. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

1. INTRODUCTION Awos Network in Turkey A new project for installing 150 AWOSs in the eastern part of the country is still under process. Thus, whole country will be covered with automated weather observing systems. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES General Quality of meteorological data and economical span of instruments depend on maintenance policies of institutes. Maintenance policy of TSMS on the basis of, in general; ØProtective Maintenance ØCorrective Maintenance ØCalibration ØQuality Control of Data OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Protective Maintenance is realized by operators, local technicians and trained technical staff. Daily, weekly and monthly maintenance procedures are realized by operators and local technicians. On the other hand more specific issues are realized by trained technical staff at the six months interval. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Corrective Maintenance In case of any failure on the systems, corrective maintenance is applied to operate the systems regularly. Firstly, local technicians take necessary actions with remote support from centre office. If the failures can not be repaired by local technicians, technical staff from the center office reach the station as soon as possible and solve the problem. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Calibration and International Standards TSMS is planning to reach international standards on all related issues. For this reason, TSMS has started to some works to be able to receive ISO-9001 Quality Management Systems Certificate. K -Q TSE-ISO-EN 9000 Related divisions have supported these works by preparing maintenance forms, failure tables, related procedures and other documents related with AWOS operations. TSE: Turkish Standards Institutes OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Calibration and International Standards Renovation of calibration laboratory works continue to ensure condition of ISO-17025. TSMS plans to provide international traceability for the AWOS instruments with these works. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Quality Control Quality control of data generated by AWOSs is another important component of those works. New quality control algorithm produced for synoptic observations are still under investigation to adapt AWOSs. Observation Sending and Archiving of Data Quality Control Software Operator Control Users Picture belongs to Dr. İbrahim Sönmez-Ref 5 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Personnel Structure TSMS intended to have trained technical staff to operate and maintain the AWOSs smoothly. So, staff distribution of TSMS in the headquarters became as showed in the table below: Bsc Msc Total Electronics Engineer 4 3 7 Machine Engineer 1 1 Industrial Engineer 1 1 Agriculture Engineer 1 Physics Engineer 1 1 Electronics Teacher 1 1 1 2 Electronics technician 3 Total 16 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES Training Policy and Cooperation In general, TSMS intends to apply its training policy as continuous training in cooperation with national and international organizations. For this purpose, our staff participated in the national and international activities such as training courses, technical conferences, seminars and exhibitons. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES National Trainings for Local Technicians (Regularly) Trained staff trains the operators and local technicians every year regularly. In 2006, four different trainings for aviation purposed AWOS were realized to train the operators and technicians. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

2. OPERATING AND MAINT. POLICIES International Trainings for Exchanging the Experiences TSMS has organized international AWOS training courses to give contribution to the capacity building activities for member countries of WMO. To exchange the experiences and information between the meteorological services of different countries are the main objectives of these courses. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

3. FUTURE WORKS Our future works can be stated as below; Ø To continue modernization program and to extend AWOS network covering all parts of Turkey. Ø To improve research activities to be able to conduct technology policies of TSMS in the field of AWOS. Ø To participate scientific and technical studies to be able to share experiences and knowledge. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

4. CONCLUSION ØModernization of meteorological observation network programme has provided great progress and technological substructure in Turkey. ØExperiences on operations and maintenance of AWOS network have been obtained during elapsed time. ØTSMS will continue to improve the knowledge and capacity to be able to operate and maintain the AWOS network smoothly. OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

SLIDES OF SOME WORKS OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

Protective Maintenance OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

Corrective Maintenance OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

Calibration Laboratory OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

International Cooperations OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

International Trainings OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

National Trainings OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

RELATED LINKS Turkish State Meteorological Services: www. meteor. gov. tr Regional Metetorological Training Center (RMTC): http: //rmtc. meteor. gov. tr Turkish Standards Institution (TSE) : www. tse. gov. tr OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

REFERENCES 1. Guide to Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observations, WMO-No. 8, 2006 2. Routine and Preventive Maintenance, Met Monitoring Guide, www. webmet. com/met_monitoring/85. html 3. Modernization of Observation Network in Turkey, Mr. Ercan BUYUKBAS, Poster Presentation, P 4(2), TECO 2005 4. Data quality management, Soner KARATAS, Poster Presentation, P 3(33), TECO 2005 5. AWOS_DMI_QAQC_2. ppt, Dr İbrahim SONMEZ, Power Point Presentation, TSMS-2005 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006

T. R. THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE TURKISH STATE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF AWOS NETWORK IN TURKEY - TECO 2006 - Geneva (Switzerland)) 4 -6 December-2006