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The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) monitoring of Antarctica is carried out by BAS for the WMO.
Jon Shanklin (J.Shanklin@bas.ac.uk), currently maintains these pages.
Latest news:
Monitoring
 UK Met Office global monitoring |
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ECMWF global monitoring |
NCDC data list |
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AMPS usage stats
(Pressure; site also gives temperature, humidity & wind) |
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Operational GSN stations with missing CLIMAT messages in
the last 12 months (2025 April to 2026 March, updated 2026
May) are: 89004 (2025 May, July, August,
2026 February, March), 89262 (2025 May, June, July, August, September,
October, November, December, 2026 January, February), 89272 (2025 June, July, August), 89377 (2025 May, June, July, August, September,
October, November, December, 2026 January, February, March), 89573 (2025 June), 89577 (2025 March, May, June, July, August, September,
October, November, December, 2026 January, February), 89592 (2026 January) and 89879 (2025 May, June, July,
August). Non operational GSN stations are: 68992, 89327,
89345.
Although 89577 is reporting SYNOP messages it did not report CLIMAT messages in 2025.
Please check
our GCOS AntON CLIMAT and SYNOP monitoring if your station is listed here
and resend the data for the missing month(s). See
the latest CLIMATs
to check if your report has been received at BAS. See
CLIMAT data for Antarctic AWS
for all the University of Wisconsin AWS. |
The first five stations to submit CLIMAT reports for 2026
April were Halley, Neumayer, Arturo Prat, Novolazarevskaya and Russkaya.
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BAS GTS monitoring |
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BAS GCOS AntON monitoring: Where we see problems with
receipt of SYNOP, TEMP or CLIMAT messages
stations or operators will be notified by email. Several AWS
experience problems with
low battery voltages restricting real-time transmissions during the
winter. |
All GUAN stations are now carrying out at least some radiosonde
flights each month. Several stations experience problems with balloons
bursting early during the winter due to low stratospheric temperatures.
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Climate monitoring
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If the SYNOP or TEMP message
percentage given here is lower than you think it should be, please check your GTS
routing. Prior to 2015, TEMP monitoring is included with the SYNOP
reports.
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Ships
The graph shows the number of ships reporting and not reporting each year since
2005 [Last updated 2025 April]. There has been a slow increase in the number reporting
and a large increase in the number not making reports.
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Ships reporting in 2004/05 |
Ships reporting in 2005/06 |
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Ships reporting in 2006/07 |
Ships reporting in 2007/08 |
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Ships reporting in 2008/09 |
Ships reporting in 2009/10 |
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Ships reporting in 2010/11 |
Ships reporting in 2011/12 |
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Ships reporting in 2012/13 |
Ships reporting in 2013/14 |
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Ships reporting in 2014/15 |
Ships reporting in 2015/16
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Ships reporting in 2016/17 |
Ships reporting in 2017/18 |
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Ships reporting in 2018/19 |
Ships reporting in 2019/20 |
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Ships reporting in 2020/21 |
Ships reporting in 2021/22 |
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Ships reporting in 2022/23 |
Ships reporting in 2023/24 |
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Ships reporting in 2024/25 [Final
2025 June 23] |
Ships reporting in 2025/26 [Updated 2026
May 11] |
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Sign up to send met reports through
Yotreps
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Latest list of
ships with significant errors/biases in their reports |
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Download electronic met logbook software from the
VOS website
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Download Turbowin for sending messages |
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Oceanographic ship locations (Sailwx) |
Ship locations (Sailwx) |
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Live ships map (Marine Traffic) |
Palmer AIS (APRS.fi) |
Planes
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Coding aircraft observations
(Draft) |
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Overland traverses
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Reporting traverse observations
(Draft) |
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Forecasting and Forecasts
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BAS Antarctic Weather Forecasting Manual |
International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Manual
[updated 2009 June] |
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Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System Forecast products from Byrd Polar Research Center of Ohio State University |
UV forecasts
from SCIAMACHY |
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Antarctic
ensemble plots
from the Australian
BoM & CSIRO |
Forecasts for Norwegian Antarctic sites |
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TAFs and Forecast charts generated at Rothera for
BAS operations |
Forecasts for Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) |
Information
Other Programmes
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International Polar Year |
International Programme for Antarctic Buoys |
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Automatic Observations on Glaciers |
WMO/JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice |
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Standing Scientific Group on Physical Sciences |
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