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User reports from the RMI smartphone app

Since August 2019, users of the RMI smartphone app are able to send an observation of the meteorological conditions at a certain place and a certain time. The observations provide information about the weather conditions and potentially severe weather to the other users and to RMI. The collection of citizen weather reports is a valuable complement to the information obtained with the classical instruments like stations, radar and satellite. The data can be exploited for nowcasting, warnings and model verification, and eventually in assimilation. A general introduction of the data and their characteristics can be found in Reyniers et al. (2023).

A basic quality control is implemented on the received observations via a plausibility check. This plausibility check determines whether an observation is plausible, suspicious or false, by comparing it to the INCA-BE nowcasting system using a simple thresholding scheme. INCA-BE is RMI's operational nowcasting system described in Reyniers et al. (2021).

There is no strict spatial extent since there is no restriction at the input side: users can send observations from all over the globe. The bulk of the observations are received from within Belgium. Note that the plausibility check is not available for reports from outside Belgium.

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Date (Creation)
2019-08-01
Identifier
RMI-be / appobs
Status
On going
Point of contact
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Owner
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Atmospheric conditions
Keywords
  • federal government
  • crowdsourscing
  • citizen science
  • severe weather
  • natural risks
  • cloudiness
  • precipitation
  • hail
  • wind
  • wind gust
  • whirlwind
  • floods
  • snow
  • road conditions
  • fog
  • optical phenomena
Spatial scope
  • National
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

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Scientific publications should refer to https://doi.org/10.5194/ecss2023-50

Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2019-08-01T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4258
Distribution format
  • CSV ( 1.0 )

  • GeoJSON ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
RMI opendata portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

RMI opendata portal

OnLine resource
appobs:appobs ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities )

WMS 1.3.0 getCapabilities document

OnLine resource
appobs:appobs ( OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-capabilities )

WFS 1.0.0 getCapabilities document

OnLine resource
Documentation ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Documentation

OnLine resource
Reyniers, Maarten, Simon, André, Delobbe, Laurent, Deckmyn, Alex, & Goudenhoofdt, Edouard. (2021). The INCA-BE system: ten years of operational nowcasting and its applications at the national meteorological service of Belgium (p. 42). Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5798952 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Reyniers, Maarten, Simon, André, Delobbe, Laurent, Deckmyn, Alex, & Goudenhoofdt, Edouard. (2021). The INCA-BE system: ten years of operational nowcasting and its applications at the national meteorological service of Belgium (p. 42). Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5798952

OnLine resource
Reyniers, M., Delobbe, L., and Watelet, S.: Citizen observations via smartphone in Belgium: data collection and applications, 11th European Conference on Severe Storms, Bucharest, Romania, 8–12 May 2023, ECSS2023-50, https://doi.org/10.5194/ecss2023-50, 2023. ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Reyniers, M., Delobbe, L., and Watelet, S.: Citizen observations via smartphone in Belgium: data collection and applications, 11th European Conference on Severe Storms, Bucharest, Romania, 8–12 May 2023, ECSS2023-50, https://doi.org/10.5194/ecss2023-50, 2023.

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Dataset
Other
dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure
INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement
A basic quality control is implemented in the form of a plausibility check. Possible outcomes of this plausibility check for the validity of an observation are: 'possible', 'suspicious' or 'false'. This assessment is made immediately after the reception of the observation by comparing it to the latest INCA-BE output. There is no offline revision of this plausibility at a later time.
File identifier
RMI_DATASET_APPOBS XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-10-02
Point of contact
  Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
http://www.meteo.be
 
 

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