Standard activites of the MOSS department
(MOSS – Meteorological Observation System of Serbia)

Meteorological observation system of Serbia (MOSS) is a part of Global observation system (GOS) and consists of all the micro-locations with observations. Protection of life, property and environment are essential tasks of every state. Maintaining of observing infrastructure is the precondition for the carying out of these tasks. A group of meteorological elements and phenomena measured and observed on one location for the needs of certain branch of meteorology (work programme) makes a type of station for these purposes, and all the stations of that kind make a station network of that kind. Networks of various types of stations have many common physical components, so they are located on the same place with simultaneous operation as a rational solution in expert and economic sense. On meteorological stations the following parameters are measured and observed:

• present weather;
• past weather;
• direction, speed and wind intensity;
• quantity, type and height of cloud base;
• visibility; air temperature;
• air humidity;
• atmospheric pressure;
• pressure tendency and its characteristics;
• extreme temperatures (minimum and maximum);
• precipitation intensity, duration and quantity;
• soil condition;
• cloud movement direction;
• special occurrences;
• solar radiation;
• minimum temperature on 5 cm;
• soil temperature on depths of 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 50 and 100 cm;
• soil evaporation;
• evaporation from open water surface;
• phenological observation;
• soil moisture;
• solar radiation components;
• daily samples of air and precipitation;
• air and precipitation gamma radiation intensity;
• icing on conductors;
• electric discharge.

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