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The GCOS Surface Network (GSN) is a baseline network comprising a subset of about 1000 stations chosen mainly to give a fairly uniform spatial coverage from places where there is a good length and quality of data record. Mandaoty paramters measured by a GSN station are temperature and precipitation.

Near Real Time data are available at the GSN Monitoring Centre (GSNMC). Historical GSN data are available online from the NOAA NCEI. The following statistics are an annual summary of the monthly CLIMAT messages in the GCOS Climate Archive (National Climate Environmental Information, NCEI, US). According to the GCOS requirements, a fully compliant GSN/RBCN shall have 12 CLIMAT reports. The values represent the 2019 (Oct 2018 to Sept 2019) percentage of stations that are compliant and those that are partially or non-compliant. In brackets are the statistics for 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 respectively.

Region

No.

12

Monthly CLIMAT

6 - 11

Monthly CLIMAT

1 - 5

Monthly CLIMAT

0

Monthly CLIMAT

RA-I

155

28%

(37, 31, 40, 29, 29, 32, 28, 23)

32%

(21, 34, 25, 31, 33, 33, 36, 39)

5%

(5, 3, 9, 15, 10, 10, 11, 14)

35%

(37, 32, 26, 25, 28, 25, 25, 24)

RA-II

258

81%

(74, 79, 83, 78, 71, 73, 73, 75)

13%

(14, 15, 10, 14, 21, 19, 19, 19)

1%

 (5, 0, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1)

5%

 (7, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 6, 5)

RA-III

101

60%

(52, 63, 65, 61, 76, 89, 84, 69)

16%

(24, 15, 29, 35, 20, 6, 13, 28)

10%

 (1, 6, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0)

14%

(23, 16, 6, 4, 3, 5, 3, 3)

RA-IV

178

80%

(88, 86, 90, 88, 88, 88, 81, 80)

13%

(7, 12, 7, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18)

1%

(4, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1)

6%

(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1)

RA-V

151

66%

(62, 61, 67, 66, 70, 63, 58, 52)

15%

(21, 21, 15, 16, 17, 16, 23, 34)

4%

(1, 3, 3, 4, 1, 7, 7, 1)

15%

(16, 15, 15, 14, 13, 14, 12, 11)

RA-VI

138

83%

(75, 82, 84, 77, 80, 82, 78, 81)

6%

 (15, 8, 7, 14, 9, 12, 17, 15)

2%

(1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 2, 1, 0)

9%

 (9, 8, 7, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4)

ANTON

42

86%

(84,83, 81, 77, 79, 60, 45, 50)

12%

(14, 12, 17, 19, 19, 36, 43, 33)

2%

(2, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 12)

0%

(0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 7, 5)

 

The detailed current state of the GSN and its performance indicators are provided by the Global Observing Systems Information Center. 

A report on the network perfomance in 2018 is available here.

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