SYNOP - Hourly synoptical observations of stations in the Caribbean
On Bonaire, Saba and St. Eustatius hourly fully automated synoptic in-situ observations are performed. The data are not validated. Measured are temperature, cloud cover and visibility, precipitation, solar radiation, air pressure, relative humidity and wind. Decoded from WMO reports in ASCII format.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-05-14
- Edition
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1.0
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::synop_hourly_decoded_caribbean/1.0/
- Purpose
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The observations are important for weather and climate monitoring.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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Climate
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External dataset
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Temperature
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Precipitation
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Wind
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Caribbean
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Observations
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Clouds
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Sunshine and Radiation
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Relative humidity
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Sunshine
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Radiation
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- Keywords
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Core dataset
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Open data
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- Use limitation
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no use limitations
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2016-10-31
- End date
- 9999-12-31
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326
- Distribution format
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Name Version ASCII
1.0
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Ordering instructions
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Data are published on https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/klimatologie/uurgegevens_Caribisch_gebied
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=synop_hourly_decoded_caribbean&x-dataset-version=1.0 KNMI Data Platform
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Automatic weather stations
Metadata
- File identifier
- 3a017b08-30d3-11f0-865c-6f8290ab0a30 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-09-01T13:44:00.052Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 2.1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
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