Python script to decode WMO FM13 SHIP telegram data recorded during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE)

• Main Authors: Luís, Diogo, Gorodetskaya, Irina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: python; science; meteorology; telegram; SYNOP; SHIP; World Meteorological Organisation; WMO; weather report; wind; air temperature; dew point; cloud level; sky cover; SST; sea surface temperature; wave; sea ice; Southern Ocean; Antarctica; Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition; ACE; Antarctic; Austral; Gorodetskaya; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice; Swiss Polar Institute
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3735028; https://zenodo.org/record/3735028

This python script decodes the raw telegrams with meteorological, ocean and ice information encoded using WMO FM13 SYNOP/SHIP code. The original telegrams were recorded on board R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE; November 2016-April 2017). Decoded output data are ASCII tab-separated (which can be imported to Excel). The script can be used to decode WMO FM13 SYNOP/SHIP telegrams from other sea stations. : The Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition was made possible by funding from the Swiss Polar Institute and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. I.G. thanks FCT/MCTES for the financial support to CESAM (UID/AMB/50017/2019) through national funds. This project has received funding from EPFL, Swiss Polar Institute and from Ferring Pharmaceuticals. : {"references": ["World Meteorological Organization (2018). Manual on Codes - International Codes, Volume I.1: Part A - Alphanumeric Codes. (2018: 2011 edition updated). Geneva, Switzerland, WMO, 466pp. (WMO-No. 306: I.1.A). https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13617", "Veledin, V. and Gorodetskaya, I. (2020). Original telegrams of surface weather, ocean and ice state observations in the Southern Ocean on board the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) in the austral summer of 2016/2017. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo."]}