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 "id": "obs-surface-stations",
 "type": "observing-system",
 "name": "Surface weather stations (SYNOP)",
 "also": [],
 "summary": "Staffed and automatic stations on land reporting pressure, wind, temperature, humidity and rain at fixed hours; exchanged between countries through the WMO Global Observing System.",
 "url": "https://community.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-observing-system",
 "label": "fact",
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   "verb": "assimilated_by",
   "to": "model-ecmwf-ifs",
   "source": "https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/focus/2020/fact-sheet-earth-system-data-assimilation",
   "read_utc": "2026-11-11T11:28Z",
   "state": "stated",
   "quote": "observations reflect conditions at the location of the instrument. Such in-situ measurements come for example from weather stations, aircraft, radiosondes, ships or buoys. Other observations are based on remote sensing, for example from satellites or ground-based radar. Most satellite"
  },
  {
   "verb": "assimilated_by",
   "to": "model-gfs",
   "source": "https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/global-data-assimilation",
   "read_utc": "2026-11-11T11:28Z",
   "state": "stated",
   "quote": "(IEEE) binary Output Data Format World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Gridded Binary (GRIB) Observation Types Surface Balloon Wind Profiler Aircraft Reports Buoy Radar Satellite Related News May 20, 2026 Rhode Island Receives New 24-Hour State Snowfall Record Read More April 30, 2026"
  },
  {
   "verb": "operated_by",
   "to": "body-wmo",
   "source": "https://wmo.int/activities/global-observing-system-gos",
   "read_utc": "2026-11-11T11:28Z",
   "state": "stated",
   "quote": "Global Observing System (GOS) Skip to main content Weather Climate Water Select your language English عربي 中文 Français Русский Español عربي 中文 English Français Русский Español"
  },
  {
   "verb": "redistributed_by",
   "to": "site-ogimet",
   "source": "https://www.ogimet.com/index.phtml.en",
   "read_utc": "2026-11-11T11:29Z",
   "state": "stated",
   "quote": "Weather Information Service provided by www.ogimet.com . It uses freely available data from the net, mainly from NOAA , and it uses Open Software to process it. The goal of this site is to provide data on current weather conditions in a fast and professional way. This is a free service"
  }
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 "by": "incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis",
 "updated": "2026-11-11T11:36Z"
}