{"id":3817,"date":"2019-03-25T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?page_id=3817"},"modified":"2019-04-24T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T07:35:15","slug":"ewob-exchange-of-crowd-sourced-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/european-severe-weather-database\/ewob\/ewob-exchange-of-crowd-sourced-data\/","title":{"rendered":"EWOB International Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESSL and a number of weather serives in Europe have initiated a collaboration to exchange crowd-sourced weather and weather impact reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This works as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Weather Services in various countries collect weather reports from individuals, e.g. through the weather app that they operate, or from storm spotters or emergency services.  <\/li><li>These reports are uploaded in real-time to the EWOB database at ESSL, which acts as an overarching data hub. <\/li><li>Reports from the international database are frequently downloaded by the participating Weather Services to ensure they also obtain reports from neighboring countries to complement their national report database.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cooperation_Scheme-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cooperation_Scheme-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cooperation_Scheme-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cooperation_Scheme-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cooperation_Scheme-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cooperation_Scheme.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Scheme of the data exchange at the national and international level<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Some important points are that&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The international collaboration and the EWOB Standard for data exchange are governed by the EWOB Oversight Committee with delegates from all partners.<\/li><li>The data are not checked for correctness, with the exception of data obtained by reliable sources such as spotters or emergency  management. Thus, they differ from quality-controlled data, e.g. that collected in ESSL&#8217;s European Severe Weather Database. <\/li><li>EWOB reports do not contain any personal identifiable data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EWOB data exchange takes place using the EWOB API. The specification can be requested from ESSL at  <a href=\"mailto:ewob@essl.org\">ewob@essl.org<\/a>. Please also contact us here if you are a weather service interested in joining EWOB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSL and a number of weather serives in Europe have initiated a collaboration to exchange crowd-sourced weather and weather impact reports. This works as follows: Weather Services in various countries collect weather reports from individuals, e.g. through the weather app &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/european-severe-weather-database\/ewob\/ewob-exchange-of-crowd-sourced-data\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1899,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3817\/revisions\/3941"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}