NAWDEX - North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

h1. EUMETNET OBSERVATIONS

EUMETNET is a grouping of 31 European National Meteorological Services that provides a framework to organise co-operative programmes between its Members in the various fields of basic meteorological activities. These activities include observing systems, data processing, basic forecasting products, research and development and training. EUMETNET's mission statement is.

The EUMETNET programme supports NAWDEX with the following extra-observations:

# 1)	Radiosondes from land stations within the European Network

# 2)	E-AMDAR observations

# 3)	E-ASAP-radiosoundings from commercial ships

All observation types perform operational (regular) observations. During the NAWDEX observation period the NAWDEX team can activate the observation types and ask for increased observation frequency. This manual explains the procedure to activate them.

The point of contact responsible for the coordination of all observations by the EUMETNET Observations Programme Management is

> Sabine Hafner

> EUMETNET Observations Programme Management

> Operations and Projects Manager

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)                    

Phone:+49 (0) 69 8062 4491

email: sabine.hafner@dwd.de