How to obtain data, Researcher’s Interface

1. Overview

2. Self-registration walk through and listing the data

3. Creation of user-accounts

4. Hands-on experiments

5. Optional on-line demonstrations

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

EMAIL ACCOUNT AND ACCESS IS NEEDED TO GET PASSWORD!

Student, Testbed course 2007

PASSWORD IS IMMEDIATELY EMAILED TO YOU

1. PRIVACY STATEMENT / PERSONAL FILE DESCRIPTIONPersonal Data Act (523/1999) 10 §

The controllerFinnish Meteorological InstituteP.O. Box 503FI-00101 HelsinkiFinlandtel. +358-9-19291fax. +358-9-179 581

The name of the registerHelsinki Testbed project - On-line weather data service

The purpose of the registerThe register is collected in order to monitor the purposes for usage of Testbed data.

Content of the registerNameOrganizationUsername and password (stored encrypted)The purpose for usage of the serviceElectronic mail address (e-mail)

The usage of collected informationThe 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 principlesThe 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 INTERFACEHTB 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.

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

4-digit QC output:<flagobject>0010</flagobject>0 unchecked1 ok

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

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

Off-line data sets: radar

Off-line data sets: Weather maps

Off-line data sets: Road weather

Off-line data sets: WXT_monthly_data

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

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.

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 20:30 utc7.8. 00utc Rain intensity

Kirkkonummi Svartviken 12utc

• 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

11.5.2006

Malmi profiler

Porvoo, Pirttisaari

Wind directionWind speedTemperature

2m temperatures at 12:30 local time

• 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

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