Russian Winter T-PARC Campaign organigram

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Russian Winter T-PARC Campaign organigram
Sponsors
Meteorological service of Canada
NOAA
NWS
50K USD
41K USD
45K USD
WMO-WWRP-THORPEX THORPEX IPO
Letter of agreement
FSUE Gidrometpostavka of Roshydromet
WMC/RTH Moscow
Sub-contractors
CAO
Regional administration of Roshydromet
Regional administration of Roshydromet
Regional administration of Roshydromet
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Russian Winter T-PARC Campaign concept

• To fulfill, during the winter phase of the
  THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC)
  in January-March 2009 at most 600 additional
  adaptive radiosonde ascents at 06 and/or 18 UTC
  on at most 40 Roshydromet upper-air stations
  according to the List of participating stations
  (to be provided by Gidrometpostavka and agreed
  with NOAA-EMC-NCEP and Environment Canada with
  indication of stations able to provide data files
  for the retrospective processing) in accordance
  with the following scheme
• Adaptive radiosonde ascents will be carried out
  within some six weeks during from ten to fifteen
  24-hours intensive observing periods (IOPs). NCEP
  NOAA/NWS US shall inform CAO about beginning of
  the IOPs at least one week before.
• During each IOP only upper-air stations (about
  some 20), specially selected from the List of
  participating stations, will be requested to
  produce adaptive radiosonde ascents.
• Selection of upper-air stations and terms 06
  and/or 18 UTC for performing adaptive radiosonde
  ascents will be made by NCEP NOAA/NWS US.
  Respective requests from the Senior Duty
  Meteorologist of NCEP Central Operations shall
  come to WMC/RTH Moscow (Main Radio-meteorological
  Centre of Roshydromet) at least 18 hours prior to
  the next IOP beginning. The procedure of transfer
  of requests for producing adaptive radiosonde
  ascents and sending back confirming receipts is
  to be determined by WMC/RTH Moscow, NOAA-EMC-NCEP
  and CAO).

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Russian Winter T-PARC Campaign scope
Raw data for detailed profiles
A Regional Roshydromet administration
A confirmed station
A potential candidate station
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Transferring requests for adaptive soundings
request for adaptive soundings
NCEP Central Operations
WMC/RTH Moscow
acknowledgement of receipt
acknowledgement of receipt
To be tested by the end of November
request for adaptive soundings
Telecommunication center of Regional
administration
Telecommunication center of Regional
administration
Telecommunication center of Regional
administration
acknowledgement of receipt
request for adaptive sounding
request for adaptive sounding
Upper-air station
Upper-air station
Upper-air station
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High-resolution profiles
Data from GTS (http//weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/na
conf.html)