Turkish Met links up with 48 airports, 400 stations, GTS and SADIS thanks to MESSIR

TURKEY’s National Meteorological Institute and the French company COROBOR Systèmes celebrated in September 1999 the successful completion of the $1 million modernisation of the country’s meteorological facilities.
The success of the massive project means Turkey can now boast one of Europe’s most reliable and extensive meteorological networks with 48 airports, 400 stations of observation, RMDCN, GTS and SADIS all linked together via the MESSIR-COMM Message Switching System.
With data coming from a wide variety of sources, including satellites, telephone, telex or fax, the Turkish NMI was in bad need of modernisation in order to be able to cope with the increasing and changing demand for meteo information.
With MESSIR-COMM, the NMI has found the ideal message switch. MESSIR-COMM combines power, speed and reliability when it comes to processing and distributing important flows of data to many different users.
Now, data coming from the country’s 48 airports, its 400 meteo stations, major meteorological centres like Offenbach, Roma, Sofia or Vienna, and from all over the world via SADIS and ACEWEX, can be processed and sent in just a few seconds to hundreds of users.
MESSIR-COMM in Ankara handles ONE MILLION messages a day - 100,000 incoming and 900,000 outgoing.
Two months were necessary for COROBOR engineers to install the MESSIR systems and train users and operators at the Ankara-based Devlet Meteoroloji Isleri Genel Müdürlügü. Very quickly, the high level of performance provided by MESSIR systems was acknowledged by all those involved in the project.
Niyazi Yaman, the centre’s director of telecommunications, said: "With this new system, we have become a real modern meteo centre. MESSIR gives us the opportunity to follow all the latest technological evolutions like the RMDCN.

NMI staff celebrate with Michel Bourguès, director of COROBOR Systèmes

"Thanks to MESSIR, we are able to receive all types of data especially GRIB, SADIS and T4, from all over the world seven times faster than before."
In addition to MESSIR-COMM and its ten operator workstations, the NMI also received three MESSIR-VISION forecaster’s workstations and became the first meteorological institute in the world to benefit from COROBOR’s new Production module, a part of MESSIR-VISION dedicated to the "on-screen" production of SIGWX charts.
As part of the project, Turkey’s main 48 airports will all receive, MESSIR-TurkMetCap workstations for the meteorological briefing of pilots. MESSIR-TurkMetCap is a version of MESSIR-AERO – COROBOR’s world-leading Pilot Met Briefing System, enriched by Turkish engineer Kemal Dokuyucu.
Undoubtedly, with MESSIR, Turkey has opted for THE right meteorological system in its ongoing process of modernisation.