COROBOR celebrated in October the first anniversary of the installation of MESSIR systems at the Romanian National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology by signing a new contract, this time with the country's civil aviation authority.
This new contract stems directly from the excellent collaboration between COROBOR and the Romanian Met Office and comes exactly a year after the installation of a complete MESSIR package at the NIMH.
This last project consisted in the supply of MESSIR-AERO and MESSIR-VISION workstations to the Bucharest Otopeni Airport. MESSIR-VISION will provide assistance to forecasters, and MESSIR-AERO will be used as a flight documentation server for pilots.
These workstations will also permit direct reception of data from SADIS, and PDUS via a connection to the TECNAVIA reception system, located at the airport.
This new equipment adds to the MESSIR-COMM message switching system and the MESSIR-VISION forecasters workstations already in operation at the NIMH - and in several regional centers.
Via the MESSIR-COMM switch, the Romanian Met benefits from direct connections to four meteorological centers in Europe - Moscow, Sofia, Kishnau and Toulouse, and six regional centers - Craiova, Arad, Sibiu, Bacau, Constanta and Cluj - all equipped with MESSIR-VISION forecaster's workstations and relayed to the NIMH via national VSAT.
The NIMH is now also able to receive data from Météo-France and models from Toulouse via RETIM satellite 1 & 3.
The two projects have so far proved to be a great success in terms of the co-operation between France and Romania, with numerous and fruitful joint developments like the improved SYNOP plotting and