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S “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ― Plutarch “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.” —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64” ― Albert Einstein I. Data recovery in 2015 As a result of data and metadata continuous recovery action that is taking place in 2015 within the Romanian National Meteorological Administration, we can present the following information about scanning documents with old meteorological data recorded in Romania, in many cases prior to the establishment of the National Meteorological Institute in Romania (1884), for some of the In some cases, the recovered data present some gaps. After the scanning procedure, data are digitized and included in the National Meteorological Database. II. Metadata recovery in 2015 The Romanian Meteorological Network comprises today a number of 158 meteorological stations. For all these stations we have historical references. In 2015, 24 historical reference sets were updated. Each historical set is organized as follows by chapters: III. The management of the meteorological metadata – national level III.1. Meteorological station metadata III.2. Rain measuring points metadata III.3. General metadata Annales de L'Institut Météorologique de Roumanie (1885 Tome I, 1894 Tome X) Annales de L’Institut Météorologique de Roumanie pour l’année (1889 Tome V, 1894 Tome X) IV. Use of the metadata for quality control of time series 10th EUMETNET Data Management Workshop - “High quality climate data – the foundation of Climate Services”, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 28-30 October 2015 References Ancuta Manea, Elena Toma, Marius-Victor Birsan, George Tudorache, Alexandru Dumitrescu Meteo Romania (National Meteorological Administration), Sos. Bucuresti-Ploiesti 97, Bucharest, Romania Changes in the landscape surrounding the meteorological station (from Google Earth aerial images) Meteorological observers – name, education, position, period of employment Pictures of the meteorological platform (cardinal points) in different years History of the meteorological equipment History of the location from the settlement of the station to present History of the landmarks for the horizontal visibility - A. Manea, F. Georgescu, G. Tudorache, (2015), Astronomy and Meteorology - two sciences interconnected in astrophysicist Nicolae Donici's life. Romanian Astronomical Journal, Vol. 25 No.1, ISSN (online) 2285-3758. http://www.astro.ro/~roaj/next.html - Annales de L'Institut Météorologique de Roumanie pour l'année 1885 – Tome I - Annales de L'Institut Météorologique de Roumanie pour l'année 1889 – Tome V - Annales de L'Institut Météorologique de Roumanie pour l'année 1894 – Tome X -Enrique Aguilar, Inge Auer, Manola Brunet, Thomas C. Peterson and Jon Wieringa „Guide to Metadata and homogeneity” www.bom.gov.au/wmo/climate/ccl/CCl_HM_250603.doc - Igor Zahumenský Maintenance of Accurate Metadata for all Automatic Weather Station Installations, WMO, CBS/OPAG-IOS/ ET AWS-3/Doc. 3.2(1) - T. Szentimrey (2008) Development of MASH homogenization procedure for and quality control in climatological databases, Budapest, Hungary, 2006, WCDMPNo. 71: 123-130. - WMO-No.8 (2010): „Guide to Meteorological Instruments and Methods of Observation” history of the meteorological equipment history of the personnel history of the geographical position history of the visibility landmarks history of the geographical position - History of the settlement of the meteorological station - Access to the station. - Description of the geographical features of the surroundings and the human activity - History of the meteorological platform - History of the visibility landmarks - Administrative situation - History of the personnel - History of the meteorological equipment - Present-day photos - Historical photos - Satelite images with the surrounding area - Historical documents where the meteorological station is mentioned (scans) Some information about the meteorological measurements and observation methods used at the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20-th century are recovered from old documents, scanned and uploaded in the national meteorological metadata-base. We used MASH v 3.03 in order to accomplish the homogenization of wind daily data. meteorological stations that are functioning today: Meteorological station OMU Peak SYNOP index: 15280 Settled on 8th September 1927 Peak mountain station Not homogenized data Homogenized data Not homogenized data Homogenized data Legend Education 0 - Gymnasium 1 - High-school 2 - University pictures of the meteorological platform station history of the geographical position station
