The METEO/NOA unit produces and provides operationally a wealth of data and information, by operating:
- the densest network of automatic meteorological stations in Greece (420, December 2019),
- high-resolution operational weather forecasting systems (waves, ultraviolet radiation, transport, thunderstorms, etc.), not only for Greece but also for Europe,
- a system for weather-related satellite-based products (rain probability, clouds’ height and thickness, thunderstorms’ monitoring, etc.),
- Crowdsourcing systems for the reporting of severe weather phenomena,
- Early warning systems for severe weather events including fire weather conditions, which affect the ignition and spread of wildfires,
- Databases for the systematic recording of weather-related natural disasters, impact analysis and vulnerability.
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DISARM/IRIS
Integrated observatory and early warning system aiming to assist interested authorities in better preventing, addressing and mitigating the adverse impacts of wildland fires, which include:
- Forest fire risk assessment
- A platfrom for satellite detection and monitoring of fires.
- A rapid response system for fire spread forecasting – IRIS
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DUST
A service for operational forecasting of the transport of African Dust. METEO/NOA is today the only Greek provider of relevant forecasts to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Sand and Dusta Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System.
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TALOS
Lightning monitoring and forecasting service at European-level. NOA operates, since 2005, ZEUS lightnings detection system, which, combined with ‘TALOS’ – a lightning forecasting system, makes NOA as one of the very few European Centers that provides full coverage (monitoring and forecasting) of lightning activity.
More information can be found in https://www.meteo.gr, https://www.meteo.gr/talos and http://map.disarmfire.eu
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Computing Facilities
A computing center with infrastructure for operational weather forecasting that includes:
- 508 CPU-core (2.4TB RAM) Linux cluster for the operational execution of weather forecast models
- 28 CPU-core (256GB RAM) Linux server
- 2x 16 CPU-core (24GB RAM) Linux server for receiving and archiving the data from the network of the automated surface stations
- 8 CPU-core (16GB RAM) Linux server
- 1 server Windows for receiving and archiving METEOSAT satellite data
- 1 server Linux for processing and archiving METEO data
- 3 windows servers supporting the web page www.meteo.gr
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