OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE

Regional Consultation on Climate Services for Indian Ocean

Islands,Mauritius, 14-16 March, 2016

GFCS Pillar – Observations & Monitoring

Geoff Gooley, CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Australia

Omar Baddour et al, Data Management Applications Div, WMO, Switzerland

GFCS Pillar – Observations & Monitoring

WMO Information System

WIS

WMO Global Observing System

INDARE/Pacific-Australian Perspective

GFCS M & O Pillar - context

The effectiveness of national climate services requires an adequate

global system, especially for observations and monitoring

• This pillar of the GFCS helps to ensure climate observations meet user needs,

and are managed, disseminated and supported by appropriate metadata

• Starts with high quality station data and climate data management systems,

including capacity to develop, manage and maintain critical infrastructure and

human capacity

• In scope for O & M:

– In situ land, oceans & atmospheric data plus AWS and satellite data

– Historical and real-time across climate system and multiple time-scales

– Foundational data for monitoring and understanding climate variability, extremes and

change

– Includes emphasis on:

• data rescue, digitisation and QAQC

• derived/value added data

• Availability and accessibility (n.b. data sharing and security imperatives)

• Integration and interoperability of remote and in situ data across multiple variables (n.b.

limitations and spatial and temporal scaling and other forms of heterogeneity)

GFCS M & O Pillar – Gaps & needs

• Rescue and digitisation of national climate records

• Standardised formats and QAQC (homogenisation of data????)

• Climate Data Management Systems

– Standardised platform, Fit-for-purpose, open-source

– Functionality, utility and reliability

– Development, trouble shooting/help-desk

• Availability and accessibility

– Data sharing and security

• Metadata standards and cataloguing

• Maintaining and developing observational networks

– Infrastructure and human capacity development

• Integration and interoperability of multiple data sets

• Value-adding and derived data sets

– Enhanced visualisation and multiple delivery platforms

– Research and development

• gridded data sets, re-analysis – historical and current climate trends

• Application ready data – future climate projects/scenarios

• Guidance materials and end-user outreach

– ??????

GFCS M & O Pillar – INDARE

– Aim for highest QAQC on what is measured, with emphasis on WMO essential

climate variables

– Apply and maintain appropriate national/international (‘gold’) standards

– Plan for long-term sustainability to avoid funding ‘cliffs’, and for progressing end-to-

end, climate services value chain

– Seek to develop ‘open-access’ platforms to facilitate data sharing, while managing

appropriate standards on security for access national climate records

– Support the role of Regional Climate Centres to facilitate consistent approach to

capacity development and applications

– Data rescue and digitisation, CDMS and associated capacity development within

NMSs are the foundation stones

– Discoverability and accessibility via user-friendly platforms:

• Need for functional, versatile, reliable and secure (inter-facing) data portal(s) with enhanced

visualisation and guidance materials

– Inter-operable (spatially and temporally scaled, within agreed confidence levels),

multi-variable data and information-based ‘knowledge products’ are the key to

realising national/sub-national path to impact with sectors and communities

WMO Information System (WIS)

WMO Integrated Global Observing

System (WIGOS)

WIS and WIGOS Project Office

WMO; OBS/WIGOS

WMO Information System – connecting Members

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Vientiane

Baghdad

Doha

Kuwait

Bahrain

Dhaka

Yangon

Kabul

Karachi

Colombo

Male

Phnom Penh

PyongYang Ashgabad

Macao

1M

Dushanbe

Almaty

NI

NI

NI

Seoul

NI

NI

10M

14.4-28.8K

(V.34)

64K

1200

64K

64K

64k

Offenbach

Cairo Algiers

Kuala Lumpur

Tashkent

Novosibirsk

Khabarovsk

Bangkok

Washington

NI

64K

64K

Regional Meteorological Telecommunication Network for Region II (Asia)

Current status as of 27 October 2014 (Based on the annual survey produced by RA-II EG-WIS)

Bishkek

64K

Singapore

RTH in Region II

NMC in Region II

Centre in other region

MTN circuit

Regional circuit

Interregional circuit

Additional circuit

Non-IP link

IP link

Internet E-mail transmission

NI No implementation

Tehran

Sanaa

Hong Kong

Moscow

NI

F/R CIR

<32/32K>

Manila

Internet

Jeddah

Muscat

64K

64K

64K

Washington

64K

via Moscow

64K

64K

Thimpu

NI

1M

64K

64K

1M

9.6K

Ulaanbaatar

Abu-Dhabi

1200

64K

Melbourne

IMTN

MPLS

10M

64K

10M IMTN

MPLS

IMTN

MPLS

IMTN

MPLS

IMTN

MPLS

IMTN

MPLS

Internet

Internet

4M

8M

10M

4M

2M

50M

4M

MPLS

50M

128K

MPLS

8M

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet

Internet Internet

Internet MPLS

20

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Toulouse

Internet

64K

64K

64K

NI

Internet

Internet

Internet

64K

Internet

128K

2M

MPLS

2M

1M

MPLS

128K

2M

64K

MPLS

4M

MPLS

64K

64K

64K

64K

MPLS MPLS

50M

Toulouse

Moscow

64K

64K

64K

Internet Internet

Internet

4M

8M

IMTN

MPLS

10M

50M

Exeter

IMTN

MPLS

10M

20M

IMTN

MPLS

8M

64K

8M

EUMETSA

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MPLS 20

M 10M

VPLS 10M

VPLS VPLS

1M 1M 10M

8M

VPLS

10M

10M

MPLS

512K

VSAT

128K

Internet

4M

Hanoi

Melbourne

10M

MPLS

Offenbach

ISDN

128K

50M

50M

10

M

Tokyo

MPLS 10M

64K

MPLS

8M

50M

Internet Internet

Beijing

Kathmand

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Exeter

MPLS

4M

20M

New Delhi

MPLS 4M 50M

Toulouse 50M

Dissemination of warnings

There are many technologies involved

These include fixed and mobile technology; land

and space based.

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Authoritative Warning Service Provider

Authoritative Warning

Recipient

GTS (including satellite broadcast, etc) FAX SMS Internet (email, FTP, etc)

Dissemination of warnings in WIS

WIS incorporates all dissemination types.

Opens the way for using our common

infrastructure for “all hazards warnings”

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Authoritative Warning Service Provider

Authoritative Warning

Recipient

GTS (including satellite broadcast, etc) FAX SMS Internet (email, FTP, etc)

Partnerships

Internationally coordinated

network of WMO

WIGOS GDPFS

WMO

Programmes

Partnerships

WIS / GTS

Conclusion

WIS is an enabler for “all hazards systems”

Regional WIS Implementation Plans are there to ensure all Members implement and benefit from WIS

PRs can authorize contributing partners to join WIS as NCs

Make implementing WIS a core part of any national or regional strategy for establishing other services, including the All Hazards systems

Remember, at a national level, WIS is largely a matter of staff competencies and effort.

Make WIS implementation a high priority for all NCs

Utilize GISC infrastructure, support and training

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WIGOS Overview - Contents

The Pre-operational-phase of WIGOS

The WMDS and OSCAR/Surface

WIGOS projects in the region

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WIGOS

Pre-operational

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Plan for WIGOS Pre-operational Phase (PWPP)

Objective of the WIGOS Pre-operational Phase

o To build on and strengthen the WIGOS framework to deliver a fully

operational WIGOS in 2020;

o To place increased emphasis on regional and national activities.

Five priority areas:

1. National WIGOS implementation

2. Regional WIGOS Centers

3. WIGOS Information Resource, with a focus on WMDS & OSCAR

4. WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System

5. WIGOS Regulatory and Guidance Material

ICG-WIGOS-5 has prepared a draft PWPP for EC-68

The WIGOS Metadata Standard (WMDS) and OSCAR

The WIGOS Metadata Standard (WMDS) is a semantic standard that

specifies the metadata elements to be recorded and exchanged for all

WIGOS stations/platforms.

The WMDS refers to observational metadata, which describes the way the

observations are taken, allowing to interpret their results.

OSCAR (Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review tool) is the

practical implementation of the WMDS and OSCAR/Surface is a new

platform intended for all metadata regarding surface observing stations: http://oscar.wmo.int/surface - IT WILL BECOME OPERATIONL ON 2ND MAY 2016

To help Members implement the WMDS (which comes into force by July

2016, according to the Manual on WIGOS approved by Cg-17) the WIGOS

Project Office is planning to deliver training on OSCAR/Surface at

observations related training events/workshops being organized by RTCs at

the various Regions/Sub-Regions - depending on resources available.

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WIGOS Projects

There are no specific WIGOS projects for the SIDS in the Indian Ocean

In RA II (which includes the Maldives) there are some WIGOS projects:

Also relevant for the SIDS in the Indian Ocean are the projects proposed

by the Joint RA II/RA V WIGOS Workshop on DRR (Oct.2015), described by

the “Jakarta declaration”, in particular the “Satellite Data Project” aimed at: (i) strengthening the capabilities of all Members to use geostationary satellite images and derived products in support of DRR; (ii) developing a protocol for the NMHSs in the project countries to request event-driven rapid-scan imagery for their respective national areas of interest.

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No. Project title Key regional players

I Monitor and review the Implementation of EGOS- IP in RA II China; Hong Kong, China

II Standard and best practise Portal, including technical documents with necessary

details in English from all RA II Members

Republic of Korea

III.1 Observing systems integration for supporting disaster risk reduction - Integration of

Surface-based Remote Sensing Data in the East Asia

China, Japan, Republic of Korea

III.2 Observing systems integration for supporting disaster risk reduction - Capacity

Building in Radar Techniques in the Southeast Asia

ASEAN (Thailand, Malaysia)

IV Enhance the Availability and Quality Management Support for NMHSs in Surface,

Climate and Upper-air Observations

Japan

V Developing a Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System

(SDS-WAS) in Asia Node

China, Japan, Republic of Korea

VI Develop Support for NMHSs in Satellite Data, Products and Training Japan, Republic of Korea

The Jakarta Declaration – 14 October 2015

The WIGOS Workshop adopted the Jakarta Declaration:

proposes to develop 2 WIGOS projects across regions II and V;

a “Satellite Data Project” and a “Radar Data Project”

to establish a joint coordination group for each project;

the Management Groups of RA II and RA V are requested to review,

approve and support these projects.

Recommended: the WMO SG to support the projects with technical assistance within

available resources;

satellite operators provide the necessary support via CGMS.

Encouraged: satellite operators of the Rep. of Korea, China and Japan to make

digital data at the full resolution available to all Members involved in the

“Satellite data project” and to support it in any way they can;

all participating Members to freely share their radar data products with

other project Members, according to the project plan

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Thank you

For further information

geoff.gooley@csiro.au

obaddour@wmo.int

WIS and WIGOS Project Office

WMO; OBS/WIGOS