China's surface meteorological observations will be fully automated - CMA

21 March 2020

From April 1, following the conclusion of reform, China’s surface meteorological observation will be fully automated. Previously, the surface meteorological observation automation reform has gone through two phases: pilot operation and national trial operation. The final evaluation shows that the trial operation has achieved expected results. Among them, the frequency of automated observations increased by about 4 to 8 times compared to manual observations. The time for transmitting observation data was optimized from minutes to seconds level. The data is transmitted directly to the provincial level. As a result, workload is reduced by about 30%.

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From April 1, following the conclusion of reform, China’s surface meteorological observation will be fully automated. Previously, the surface meteorological observation automation reform has gone through two phases: pilot operation and national trial operation. The final evaluation shows that the trial operation has achieved expected results. Among them, the frequency of automated observations increased by about 4 to 8 times compared to manual observations. The time for transmitting observation data was optimized from minutes to seconds level. The data is transmitted directly to the provincial level. As a result, workload is reduced by about 30%.

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