But what is strange, what is most incomprehensible, is how authors can take such
plots, I confess, itβs completely incomprehensible, thatβs for sure ...
No, no, I don't understand at all.
NV Gogol
By the will of fate, I became a participant in a grandiose project β modernization of the meteorological network of Roshydromet. Almost nowhere in the civilized world do observers rush around the site to take instrument readings - everything that is possible is automated. In Russia, this was delayed, but thanks to the modernization project of Roshydromet, the weather network was also re-equipped. There has never been such a scale anywhere and never, but we implemented the project in just two years (2008-2009). And this, for a moment, is the supply of 1842 weather stations, plus other communications and energy equipment. It was also necessary to assemble the stations, complete and pack them, deliver them to each of the 85 regional centers, and then deliver them to the stations, install and configure them.
At the moment, the second stage of modernization is in full swing. Excavations in the archives of documents and prompted me to think about such a post.
Tragedy on a scale of 1:4 000 0000. Geography of weather stations of Roshydromet
In general, the entire project for the modernization of organizations and institutions of Roshydromet consisted of several contracts: for meteorology, hydrology, aerology, oceanology, etc. Next, I will show photographs that relate to the most remarkable of them.
The part of the project that we covered included the supply of equipment for more than 2000 objects of the observation network and the installation of more than 500 sites.
1. Weather network
Equipment
To implement the project, LANIT became a manufacturer of weather stations. We decided that we would deploy this production on our own at the Luch plant in Novosibirsk. Components were brought from all over the world, we also received Russian components (traditionally, we had the most problems with them).
Novosibirsk, plant "Luch". Production of our equipment
The plant organized a whole assembly line, which employed 10-15 people. For this reason, we have several times brought in crowds of production managers from Vaisala, who shared their knowledge without fear or reproach.
Then the stations passed through the packing shop. Luch also made metal products - masts, boxes, racks, traverses, etc. They also assembled the stations, tested and packaged them.
Installing components on the station mounting frame
The plant removed a serious part of our worries from us. If we did everything ourselves, we would still be implementing this project. Separately, it is worth thanking these wonderful people for getting rid of problems with the assembly and packaging of equipment. There were practically no mistakes. On the other hand, we heartily ate with a different warehouse in subsequent projects, for example, the task of sending equipment to a certain recipient with given serial numbers turned out to be practically unsolvable.
Typical warehouse staff behavior
In order to meet the budget, the installation supervision was included in the project. We visited 23 territorial departments (UGMS) of Roshydromet. They gathered local management specialists there, taught technicians how to install and maintain stations, and methodologists were told how to work with new equipment and software. The practice was fixed just by supervision of installations. Further, these trained control engineers independently installed the complexes and trained observers at weather stations.
Up to 12 brigades, each with 2 people, were involved in supervising the installation.
Kursk, training. There was supposed to be a joke about heating, but I couldn't come up with it.
Forget about grandma's methods
Previously, an observer who (and usually who) receives several thousand rubles a month had to go to the site 8 times a day in any weather, climb a ladder, get thermometers, record readings, etc. Now, at most Roshydromet facilities, modern automated stations have replaced mercury barometers, hygrographs and other obsolete meteorological instruments.
As a result, manual observations have not gone away (a classic example is the determination of the shape of clouds), but at some points that are not related to the main observation network, stations are switched to a fully automatic mode.
And this is a by-product - a mobile (collapsible) weather station
There is a favorite story from Soviet times, which we were told in Hydromet. It well characterizes the relevance of our project.
The students studied at some meteorological university and decided to go south. Previously, everything was simpler - they called one of the southern weather stations:
We are students and will be back soon. We will live here.
- Yes, please come.
They come - no one is there, only one little boy of 10-11 years old walks.
Students ask:
βBoy, where is everyone?β
- And they went to a neighboring village for a wedding.
A couple of days go by and still no parents. Go to the boy
Boy, where are your parents?
So they left for two weeks.
- Well, but this is a weather station, you need to be on duty here every day, record and transmit everything on time.
β Ah, nothing. They wrote everything two weeks in advance.
Here he is, our hero. Logger
In our weather station, the most unique thing is the software component. I'm talking about scripts, or configuration. The QML201 logger is very fancy. So we did all sorts of unimaginable things that hardly anyone has repeated since then. Example: There is a key code for transmitting meteorological information. It's about , which was invented in shaggy years and was imprisoned exclusively for the telegraph. The main data processing lay on the observer, and in our case it was necessary to load the logger fairly, instead of sending the primary data to the center and processing it already there.
Despite our stormy protests, we had to implement this miracle in the logger. Yes, and with the sending of data from the observer. Less than 8 years later, we managed .
In addition to weather stations, the project included 18 actinometric stations that measure all types of solar radiation.
Actinometric station in Khabarovsk
And sea surface stations:
Sochi. The sea buoy measures a ton of weather and underwater parameters.
He is the same, but without extras
ID tag
This sign, by the way, saved us all a lot of money. A couple of months after installation, the buoy was torn off the anchor by a storm. He went, presumably, to Istanbul, but was intercepted by valiant border guards and delivered to the owners.
And underwater:
St. Petersburg, installation of a bottom profiler
At the lighthouse Tolbukhin
proof
Into the great wide open
Karachay-Cherkessia
Of course, the project manager cannot reach all the stations - there is simply no time for this. But one day I gave up on everything and went myself to Karachay-Cherkessia, to the Klukhorsky pass. It is near Dombay. This area has the status of a hard-to-reach territory. By definition, rudely, a βhard-to-reach stationβ is where you canβt get there by car, you canβt ride a horse. And it is quite possible to get to the Klukhorsky Pass and live the life of the locals. The only thing missing is the connection.
Kluhor village
The Klukhor Pass is the highest mountainous section of the Sukhum Military Highway (height 2781 m), leading from the great Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea coast. Here is the border between Russia and Abkhazia. It was in this place that during the Second World War the fiercest battles with the German invaders took place for the Kluhor Pass.
Klukhorsky pass and wind gauge. Made for each other
We worked at the Klukhor Pass in August, the weather was fine. More precisely, here you can see who worked and who did not.
The same manual (personnel) measuring instruments
HF radio setup
After Kluhor, he decided to stay on the installation of an automatic station at the Zelenchuk Observatory.
Or rather, in a special astrophysical observatory of the research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the North Caucasus.
At present, it is the largest Russian astronomical center for ground-based observations of the Universe. In the photo - an optical reflector BTA and me. Try not to confuse.
Zelenchuk observatory. The weather station was set up right next to the hotel. Why go far?
And then, as in a joke about Pinocchio and a broken leg, off we go ...
2. Modernization of the upper-air network
This contract included the supply and installation of 60 airborne radars throughout the country. Below is about one of the locations.
Yakutia, Kotelny Island
Our project touched on places where you really canβt get to anything other than a helicopter.
So, the LANIT team went to Kotelny Island in Yakutia. It is located between the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea and is the largest in the archipelago of the New Siberian Islands.
Getting from Moscow to Kotelny is extremely simple. Almost 7 hours to fly to Yakutsk on a regular plane. Then you need to fly to Tiksi - it's another three hours, and from there to Kotelny "within a stone's throw" - just another three hours by helicopter over the sea with refueling on Stolbovaya Island or by ship a day or two.
A couple of times a year, the expedition drops canned food and fuel at the station. Under this case, they also threw a locator with materials.
Equipment can be delivered by ship only during the short navigation season.
It's a boat, sea and sun
Special men unload radio transparent cover
They also load the rest of the locator
The climate on the island is arctic, severe. Snow lies 9-10 months a year. The average temperature in July is +2,9 C. Temperatures below -30 degrees C can be observed from October to April.
Installation of a tower for the installation of a new aerological complex
Polar bears often visit
Commission of local colleagues
Hi
Many people ask if it was difficult to manage such a project. The answer is yes. If several such contracts fell on me at once, I would probably creak and still run around in a helmet and smile.
But in general, I quite smoothly immersed myself in this story and, by analogy with children's essays, immersed my team there. Yes, and it was very interesting for me to do this: you can tell your children and grandchildren about such a project. It was kinda warm, for the most part.
3. Meteo-2
As I already wrote, almost 10 years after the start of the first project, the second Roshydromet modernization project was launched. Where, among other things, we got a contract for the continuation of the modernization of the weather network. Below is a very fresh photo of a week ago - the installation of a new generation station.
New weather station in the Central UGMS. Planes are no longer scary.
Spherical calibration laboratory in vacuum
And finally, during my work with Roshydromet, I willy-nilly became one of my own there. When you congratulate people on their professional holiday, you can often hear in response: "Mutually, and you too." This is really cool =)
Source: habr.com