Upper-air station availability issue

Re: Upper-air station availability issue

de Cristina Prates -
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Dear Gohar,

Thank you very much for your enquire. I did check the status of the Armenian Yerevan upper-air station on the daily availability map. In fact on the pop-up window below the Number of Expected observations (#Expected: 2) there is the comment "Default schedule".  WDQMS is assuming a default schedule  (2 observations per day, at 00 and 12UTC) because there is no schedule available in OSCAR/Surface for this station. Since the station is only reporting at 00UTC, it is shown as a "green" dot on the 00UTC availability map and as a black "dot" on the 12UTC availability map. On the daily view, WDQMS expect 2 ascents per day and the station only sends one, therefore it's displayed as a red dot (Availability issues). The only way to fix this is by updating the OSCAR/Surface accordingly. 

Regards,

Cristina Prates