Dear,
I am a master student working on the theme 'Urban Heat Island' for my master thesis whereby I get help from my promotor Matthias Demuzere who is a post-doctoral researcher at the KU Leuven University in Belgium. He works on the theme 'urban climate' in the regional climate research studies led by Prof. Dr. Nicole van Lipzig.I contact you because I am looking for observations from hobby meteorologists. Last year Gert-Jan Steeneveld (Wageningen university) published an article in which he quantified the strength of the Urban Heat Island in Dutch cities based on observations of hobby meteorologists (see attach). This gave my promotor the idea to develop a similar research for Belgian cities.
I noticed that quite some Belgian meteorologists send their data to the CWOP database, but I have some questions concerning the retrieval of their data via MADIS. When I look at the information on the MADIS website (http://madis.noaa.gov/), I noticed that amongst the available datasets observations, CWOP is not mentioned. However, I did find it (and many others) back under the name 'Integrated Mesonet'. Next, I logged in (https://madis-data.noaa.gov/, OPeNDAP Login Links, Public) to view the Public Catalog and there I find different datasets (archive, LDAD, point, grid and gc). When I clicked further, I encountered 'mesonet', but never CWOP.
The most straightforward for my research would be if I could retrieve all data from the Belgian meteorologists at once, but I don't even know where this data is displayed. I would appreciate it if you could advise me on how to go forward with this? Which tools are best suited to do this?Of course, in case I could obtain the CWOP data I would take contact with all the responsible people of the dataset to let them know what we plan to do.
Kind regards,Evy