The Asia-Pacific Regional
ATOVS Retransmission Service

Regional ATOVS Retransmission Service

Definition

Regional ATOVS Retransmission Services (RARS) are operational arrangements for the real-time acquisition of polar-orbiting satellite data over a wide region containing a network of direct readout stations and their rapid delivery to the global user community through regional Processing Centres. This initiative has improved weather forecasts over the globe, and is being expanded.  RARS is comprised of several regional components, one of which, the Asia Pacific Regional ATOVS Retransmission Service (AP-RARS) covers the Asia-Pacific Region

General information for this service can be found on the World Meteorological Organization's RARS web site.

Asia-Pacific RARS

The Asia-Pacific RARS is that part of RARS handled by the Dissemination Centres at Tokyo and Melbourne.

Participants within the AP-RARS are show on the following map. Clicking on the placename will take you to the corresponding Meteorological Service or, if available, that agency's RARS web site.

The red outlines show the approximate coverage of the AP-RARS.

Table of AP-RARS Sites

Useful Links

• Obtaining AP-RARS
• WMO RARS website
• Minutes of the 2^nd Session RARS implementation Group Meeting Geneva, 20-21 May 2008 (pdf 28kb)
• Minutes of the 1^st Session RARS implementation Group Meeting Geneva, 3-4 Jul 2007 (pdf 28kb)
• Timeliness of RARS Data at Tokyo