Climate Variability and Change—Hydrological Impacts (Proceedings of the Fifth FRIEND World
Conference held at Havana, Cuba, November 2006), IAHS Publ. 308, 2006, 31–36.
Real-time monitoring and management of point and areal
hydrometeorological data in the Athens metropolitan area
MARIA MIMIKOU & ANDREAS GRAMMATIKOGIANNIS
Department of Water Resources, Hydraulics and Maritime Engineering,
School of Civil Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens, 5 Heroon Polytechniou, 15780
Zographou, Athens, Greece
mimikou@chi.civil.ntua.gr
Abstract This paper focuses on the
implementation of a fully automated telemetric network (METEONET) of 11
hydrometeorological stations which was installed for the integrated analysis and
management of the meteorological information concerning the Athens metropolitan
area in the Attica district of Greece. Various dynamic software applications
are linked to the central database of the project supporting the analysis and
synthesis of the data, the inspection of the temporal and spatial evolution of
meteorological events, as well as the elaboration and dissemination of
derivative information through the Internet for public awareness. The entire
procedure has been standardized for easy implementation in other similar
networks.
Key words METEONET; telemetry;
hydrometeorological network; Athens; Greece; database; Internet; public
awareness