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SYNOP

SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by staffed and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically sent every six hours by Deutscher Wetterdienst on shortwave and low frequency using RTTY. A report consists of groups of numbers (and slashes where data is not…

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Message format

MärketCape CanaveralHectometersDew pointRelative humidity
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Overview

CodeWMOWeatherAutomated weather stationsDeutscher Wetterdienst
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SYNOP

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples57
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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SYNOP

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related to Message format · 35
SYNOP → Cape Canaveral, Celsius, CL, CMandCHindicate, Code, Codes, Codesnindicates, Digitspppindicate, DigittRindicates, Following, For, GGfor, If, Ifsnis, IIfor, IIiii, Leading, Like, Messages, Märket
related to External links · 8
SYNOP → Active/XParse, AMDAR, BUOY, Frequenzen, METAR, TAF, WetterdiensteA SYNOP, XML
related to Surface and SYNOP datasets · 8
SYNOP → Archive, BUFR, Iowa State University, National Weather Service, OGIMET, Surface, SYNOP Archived, Wayback MachineMeteomanz

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data code weather codes pressure temperature visibility used station stations surface km staffed example wind number precipitation tenths observations hours

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
seaTTYinstance ofIt can be decoded by open-source software0.80text
metaf2xml or Fldigi.SYNOP information is collected by more than 7600 staffedinstance ofIt can be decoded by open-source software0.80text
unstaffed meteorological stationsinstance ofIt can be decoded by open-source software0.80text
more than 2500 mobile stations around the worldinstance ofIt can be decoded by open-source software0.80text
is used for weather forecastinginstance ofIt can be decoded by open-source software0.80text
climatic statisticsinstance ofIt can be decoded by open-source software0.80text
SYNOPrelated to External linksFrequenzen0.60section
SYNOPrelated to External linksWetterdiensteA SYNOP0.60section
SYNOPrelated to External linksActive/XParse0.60section
SYNOPrelated to External linksMETAR0.60section
SYNOPrelated to External linksTAF0.60section
SYNOPrelated to External linksBUOY0.60section

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