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“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 withinthe 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For all these stations we have historical references. In 2015, 24 historical reference sets were updated.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
-Enr ique Agui lar, Inge Auer, Manola Brunet, Thomas C. Peterson and Jon Wier inga „Guide to Metadata and homogenei ty” 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 meteorologicalequipmenthistory of the personnel
history of thegeographical position
history of thevisibility landmarks
history of thegeographical 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 PeakSYNOP index: 15280
Settled on 8th September 1927Peak mountain station
Not homogenized data
Homogenized dataNot homogenized data
Homogenized data
LegendEducation
0 - Gymnasium1 - High-school2 - University
pictures of the meteorological platform
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history of thegeographical position
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