To publish your weather data on the MISTRAL portal

Observational data

1. License

   Data is required to be available with an OPEN license. Most of the data available on MISTRAL has CC BY 4.0 license and this is the recommended license. However, the system is designed to accept and redistribute data with any type of OPEN license.
   For further information please contact us: mistral@cineca.it.

2. Modality

   Data must be sent to MISTRAL via the AMQP protocol.
   AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) is a protocol for communications through message queues that guarantees interoperability, security, reliability and persistence.

   An additional method is available for the Regions to publish the observational data of the ground stations they own:

   • giving the authorization to the Civil Protection to redistribute to MISTRAL the data that it already collects from the Regions. MISTRAL has already activated this collection flow for 11 regions and an autonomous province.

   For further information please contact us: mistral@cineca.it

3. Data model: data and metadata

   Each data is a value associated with 6 unique metadata:

   • Time: date time of the observation or end of the observation period
   • Longitude, latitude and identifier: geographical coordinates and identification of the data generator
   • Network: it defines stations with homogeneous characteristics (class of instruments, representativeness and / or mobile or fixed stations)
   • Time range: it indicates observation or time of the forecast and any "statistical" processing in coded form using a table
   • Level: the vertical coordinates (possibly layer) in coded form by means of a table
   • Variable: physical parameter defined with a description, unit of measurement, measurement range and significant figures.

   For more details please see: doc.rmap.cc/rmap_rfc/rfc.html#data-model-dati-e-metadati
   

   Each data can also be equipped with attributes, for example produced by quality control.

4. Format

   The formats managed are:

   • BUFR
   • JSON (in development)
   For more details please see: doc.rmap.cc/rmap_rfc/rfc.html#formati

5. To publish observational data on the MISTRAL portal, please contact the MISTRAL team: mistral@cineca.it

Forecast model data

To publish forecast model data on the MISTRAL portal, please contact the MISTRAL team: mistral@cineca.it

Other types

To publish data of other types on the MISTRAL portal, please contact the MISTRAL team: mistral@cineca.it