Inga Groehn, Christian Häberli, and Reinhold Steinacker, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, 1190 Vienna, Austria
On Tuesday, 23rd of May 2000 before the official start of the MAP-Meeting in Bohinjska Bistrica - the 4th meeting of WG-ROUND was held. 12 persons from 9 institutions in 4 countries participated.
This meeting was devoted to three different topics:
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New Way of Presentation of DAQUAMAP Results: From now on the results of DAQUAMAP are distributed via internet. That means that the very important information about sensor problems, systematic or gross errors is available for every MAP data user on the internet! First, the data providers had to check the DAQUAMAP results and to agree to their publication. In special cases it also meant to write some comments about reasons of special behaviour of single stations. This information is then also available on the web. DAQUAMAP homepage incl. results of reduced pressure, potential temperature and humidity:
/mm-doc/daquamap/daquamain.html
(you will be asked for your MAP password)
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MAC (Mesoscale Alpine Climatology): After an introduction of the background, of the basic ideas, and of the goals of MAC the following discussion yielded that MAC might be a possible future work of WG-ROUND. This means that the future organisational structure of MAC must also be open to data holders who are not national weather services (i.e. regional weather services in Italy, hydrographic offices in other countries etc.). But there are still some MAP duties to be finished before starting something new ...
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Status of the Alpine station inventory and data delivery to MDC and the post-SOP actions of the WG (data collection): After a short overview of the amount of data available at the MDC it was discussed what the next post-SOP actions will be. WG-ROUND makes several recommendations concerning data from routine networks. This includes the performance of the data collection after the SOP. According to the decision of the Chamonix meeting, the 'offline data' (if delivered) will in many cases finally replace the 'real-time' data. But also the special treatment of precipitation was discussed in detail.
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For more information see:
(Minutes of the WG-ROUND Meeting in Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia),
(WG-ROUND homepage)
