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How to obtain data, Researchers 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

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How to obtain data, Researchers Interface - contd - Self-registration walk through and listing the data Jani Poutiainen / FMI Mikko Parviainen / FMI 13.2.2007

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EMAIL ACCOUNT AND ACCESS IS NEEDED TO GET PASSWORD!

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Student, Testbed course 2007 PASSWORD IS IMMEDIATELY EMAILED TO YOU

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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.

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

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4-digit QC output: 0010 0 unchecked 1 ok

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

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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

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Off-line data sets: radar

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Off-line data sets: Weather maps

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Off-line data sets: Road weather

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Off-line data sets: WXT_monthly_data

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Information sources concerning the data: General / FAQ: http://testbed.fmi.fi/docs/faq.htmlhttp://testbed.fmi.fi/docs/faq.html Station pics: http://testbed.fmi.fi/Stations.en.htmlhttp://testbed.fmi.fi/Stations.en.html Selected instrumentation: http://testbed.fmi.fi/Instrumentation.en.html http://testbed.fmi.fi/Instrumentation.en.html Researchers 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

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

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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 utc 7.8. 00utc Rain intensity Kirkkonummi Svartviken 12utc

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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

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11.5.2006 Malmi profiler Porvoo, Pirttisaari Wind directionWind speedTemperature 2m temperatures at 12:30 local time

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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.