Recent news

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute has uploaded YOPPSiteMIP data for YOPP supersites Ny-Ålesund and Sodankylä that are within the geographical domain of the Arome-Arctic model. Data are searchable and also directly available at:

https://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/alertness/YOPP_supersite/AROME-A…

The HydroMeteorological research Center of Russia has made YOPPSiteMIP data from the SL-AV model available for YOPP supersites.

https://yopp.met.no/metadata_search/?quid=07afe109d494f4062371a197ff5d4…

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has developed the Canadian Arctic Prediction System (CAPS). CAPS has been runned in operation at the Canadian Meteorological Service in experimental mode since February 2018. Prior to the 28th of June 2018 (included), CAPS was runned uncoupled, whereas since the 29th of June 2018 (included), CAPS was coupled with the Canadian Regional Ice and Ocean Prediction system (RIOPS).

Due to maintenance, the transformation service will be unavailable from 08:00 to 16:00 Tuesday 29th October 2019. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

During the Cinese Arctic Cruise in 2018 frequent radiosoundings were launched in support of YOPP Special Observation Period along the path of XUELONG ice breaker. The radiosoundes were launched 2-3 times per day from July 28th to September 3rd in the Arctic Ocean and a total of 76 soundings data were shared through WMO GTS in BUFR format. These BUFR files are now available for download at:

http://data.wis.cma.cn/GTS/open/BUFR/Upper_air/Arctic_Xuelong

Data from the Yopp-endorsed project KPOPS are now available.

The radiosonde balloon sounding observations were performed from 5 August 2019 to 17 September 2019 to obtain the Arctic Ocean high-resolution atmospheric vertical profiles along the IBRV Araon cruise track at four times daily intervals (00, 06, 12, 18UTC). The data include vertical profiles of temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and wind direction up to about 30km. The data have been used for the data assimilation of the KOPRI Arctic weather forecast system.

Radiosonde and SYNOPs for Baranova and Tiksi stations for the YOPP SOP NH1 and NH2 are now available at

• http://www.aari.ru/main.php?lg=1&id=407 (Baranova)
• http://www.aari.ru/main.php?lg=1&id=273 (Tiksi)

Data are yet not indexed in the YOPP catalogue. Work is in progress to index these datasets.

ECMWF IFS for YOPP supersites are now available at http://thredds.met.no/thredds/catalog/alertness/YOPP_supersite/ifs-ecmw…. Preparation of discovery metadata for inclusion in the YOPP Data Portal is in progress. ECMWF is not responsible for any use that may be made of the YOPPsiteMIP dataset.

Information on YOPP datasets hosted by the Arctic Data Archive System (ADS) of the National Institute for Polar Research in Japan is now included in the searchable data catalog for YOPP.

The search interface has been updated. Now the map used in the search box supports more map projections, including a southern and northern hemisphere map. Furthermore, the search interface has been further restructured and prepared for more faceted searchs (e.g. by institutions) in the future. The business logic supproting transformations has also received some upgrades, but many of these will first be fully visible once the backend services are updated as well.