Dear WIGOS community,
the WDQMS development team released v1.6 of WDQMS last Tuesday 02/09/2025.
The main function of v1.6 is the addition of the timeliness metric to the NWP surface observations view. Timeliness provides a new perspective on the observing system performance and complements the already implemented availability and quality metrics. With the addition of timeliness WDQMS now covers all the vectors in which requirements are expressed by the community.
Timeliness for upper-air, marine observations and GBON will be added in future releases.
The release also features new map functions, such as a new complimentary monochrome map and a user timezone based map focus. It also contains background improvements to the software architecture and data processing.
The team is excited to release this long awaited function, hopes that it will be useful to better understand the observing system, and looks forward to feedback from the community.
with kind regards
the WDQMS development team