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...