Automatic weather station data managemente at the INM Meteorological Center in the Balearic islands

Abstract

Automatic weather stations yield a huge amount of useful data, that are not fully exploited by the software provided with the stations. Therefore, as new needs emerged, a set of computer programs has been developed, allowing us to: a) store the data in a more efficient way, keeping all records on line for different climatological applications; b) apply additional quality controls on the data, with tools to correct or delete the errors; c) automatically generate e-mail messages with warnings to the Civil Protection services or data summaries for different customers; d) Generate web pages with data summaries and graphic displays in real time; e) generate graphs, data listings and other climatological products for different purposes. As these programs have been developed locally, they can be easily modified to accomplish new tasks with quite a short response time.