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Report of the Secretary-General on the Agricultural Meteorology

ProgrammeCAgM-XV/Doc. 3

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WMO helped establish Drought Management Center for South Eastern Europe (DMCSEE)

• Oct. 2004: Poiana/Brasow Workshop

• Apr. 2006: Sofia Workshop

• Sep. 2006: Decision on DMCSEE hosting country

• Nov. 2006: Technical meeting in Geneva

• Preparation of project proposal, Jan. –Apr. 2007

• Kick-off meeting in Ljubljana, Apr. 2007

• Two International Steering CommitteeMeetings in 2008 and 2009

• Funding received from the EuropeanUnion

http://www.dmcsee.org/

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WMO working on establishing DroughtManagement Center for Central Asia (DMCCA)

• WMO, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) working together to establish the DMCCA.

• Technical Seminar on preparation towards Terms of Reference for a Regional Drought Centre in Central Asia (20-21 November, 2007, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

• Second Workshop on establishing a Drought Management Centre in Central Asia (May 2008, Kyrgyzstan)

• WMO Consultant visited the five Central Asian countries ie., Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in November 2009 to consult with relevant organizations and institutions and prepare project proposal.

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Proposed Integrated Drought Management Programme

• WMO and the Global Water Partnership are proposing an Integrated Drought Management Programme. Similar to APFM

• Targeting intergovernmental, governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in drought monitoring, prediction, drought risk reduction and management.

• Primary beneficiaries are expected to be governmental institutions, agencies responsible for developing drought management policies and/or implementing systems for drought monitoring, prediction, preparedness and mitigation.

• The principal approach to develop global co-ordination of efforts to strengthen drought monitoring, risk identification, drought prediction and early warning services and development of drought management knowledge base.

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Proposed Integrated Drought Management Programme (cont)

• The expected services to be provided are:– Regional coordination of drought monitoring, prediction and

early warning activities– Inception of pilot projects and coordination of regional projects

to showcase best practices – Collection and dissemination of information and knowledge on

good practices; – Guidelines, methodologies, tools and supporting documentation

on policy development and management practices and procedures; and

– Capacity building and advice on Integrated Drought Management.

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Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM)

Joint Initiative - www.apfm.info

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)Global Water Partnership (GWP)

SecretariatTechnical Support Unit in WMO

Inception Phase: 2001- 2002Implementation Phase I: 2002- 2006Implementation Phase II: 2006-2010

Trust Fund current contributors: Japan and Switzerland

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Lincoln Declaration - Recommendations

• The National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) around the world are encouraged to use the SPI to characterize meteorological droughts and provide this information on their websites, in addition to the indices currently in use. WMO was requested to take the necessary steps to implement this recommendation.

• A comprehensive user manual for the SPI should be developed that will provide a description of the index, the computation methods, specific examples of where it is currently being used, the strengths and limitations, mapping capabilities, and how it can be used.

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Lincoln Declaration - Recommendations

• Two working groups with representatives from different regions around the world and observers from UN Agencies and Research Institutions (and water resource management agencies for hydrological droughts) be established to further discuss and recommend, by the end of 2010, the most comprehensive indices to characterize agricultural and hydrological droughts.

• Recognizing the need to develop a framework for an integrated approach for drought monitoring to address all sectoral needs, a comprehensive study of consensus drought indicators is needed for potential global application.

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Lincoln Declaration - Recommendations

• A simple, systematic analysis of drought impacts in different sectors should be initiated in all affected countries in order to provide useful decision-making information for policy-makers.

• Drought indices and early warning systems must be implemented from the beginning with the end-users in mind. To accomplish this goal, a multi-disciplinary approach incorporating user involvement is absolutely necessary.

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Current Drought Activities

• The recommendation to use the SPI was approved by the WMO Executive Council in June 2010. It will be sent to the WMO Congress in 2011, along with the recommendations from the other two working groups.

• The UN International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR) is providing funding for the meetings of the working groups on agricultural (June 2010 - Spain) and hydrological (August - September 2010 - India) drought indices.

• With these recommendations, WMO will assist ISDR in finalizing the chapter on drought risks for the 2011 UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

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National AgrometeorologicalStation Network (NASNET)

• ICT on Agrometeorological Services (OPAG 1) Hanoi, Viet Nam (12-14 December 2007) the participants discussed the issue of density of agrometeorological station networks at the national level.

• 60th session of the WMO Executive Council adopted Resolution 6 on “Establishment of National Agrometeorological Station Network (NASNET)” based on ICT recommendations.

WMO OMMAdaptation to Climate Change

• International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia - Dhaka, Bangladesh (August 2008)

– creation of a Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia Network (CCFSSANet)

– establishment a South Asia Climate Outlook Forum (SACOF)• International Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change

in West African Agriculture - Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (April 2009)

– establishment West and Central African Network on Climate Change and Food Security (ROCACCSA)

– Technical Secretariat, part of the ECOWAS Sub-regional Action Programme on Climate Change

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• Inter-Regional Workshop on Improving Agrometeorological Bulletins, Bridgetown, Barbados (Oct 2001).

• Attended by 25 experts from 21 countries.

• Participants developed the concept of a centralized web server for agrometeorological products.

Inter-Regional Workshop on Improving Agrometeorological Bulletins

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• Expert Group Meeting on Internet Applications for Agrometeorological Products, Washington, D.C. (May 2002). Attended by 12 experts from 7 countries.

• Experts developed a plan to implement a centralized web server to host:– National Agrometeorological Bulletins– Agrometeorological Advisories– Agrometeorological Training Modules

Expert Group Meeting on Internet Applications for Agrometeorological Products

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Benefits of WAMIS to Members• WAMIS helps members to disseminate and improve their agro

meteorological products. • As a dedicated web server, it allows countries to place their existing

agrometeorological bulletins and advisories on a near real-time basis.

• Provides tools and resources to help members improve the quality and presentation of their agrometeorological bulletins.

• Provides a central location for agrometeorological information so that members can quickly and easily evaluate the various bulletins.

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Reminder – Keep in Mind

• Providing agrometeorological bulletins through the Internet is ONLY ONE DISSEMINATION METHOD for interacting with users.

• This does not replace direct interactions with users or using other media (newspaper, radio, TV, etc)

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Current Status• As of March 2010, there are products and bulletins from 50

countries and organizations.

• Nearly 500,000 visits since the inception of the website in December 2003 and an average of about 15,000 visits are made per month.

• WAMIS mirror servers still maintained by Italian Institute of Biometeorology (http://wamis.bo.ibimet.cnr.it) and by NCAM –Republic of Korea (http://www.wamis.net)

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Goals of WMO Information System (WIS)

• GTS needs to be open to all WMO activities to provide time critical information exchange

• Internet should be a part of WIS to allow support of less critical requirements

• The continuous improvement and adaptation of new technologies inthe GTS should be maintained.

• The WIS should be open to more than just WMO programs allowing partners to participate

• Need seamless discovery, access and retrieval (DAR) across all WMO systems, including collaborators and partners.

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Commercial Service Providers

5 GAW World Data Centres

GCOS Data Centres

Global Run-off Data CentreIRI and other climate research institutes

Universities

Regional Climate Centres

International Organizations (IAEA, CTBTO, UNEP, FAO.. )

World Radiation Centre

Regional Instrument Centres

WMO World Data Centres

Real-time “push”On-demand “pull”

InternetInternet

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National Centres (NC)Global Information System Centres (GISC)Data Collection and Production Centres (DCPC)Data communication network

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ISO Search Engine for WMO Information System (WIS)

• Inter-Commission Coordination Group on the WMO Information System (ICG/WIS) – CAgM Representative Byong Lee

• First phase: development ISO compatible search engine on WAMIS, enable users to make searches on WAMIS via WIS.

• WIS Expert visited KMA in May 2009 • WIS-compliant search interface "GeoNetwork“ was implemented,

free, open source, software written primarily in Java. • KMA & WIS expert created metadata for WAMIS links & products, • Development and testing of Geonetwork-based WAMIS metadata

search and maintenance Web site continues.

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• Several information technologies and internet tools have potential to aid the agrometeorolgical community:

• Web-based GIS tools, • remote-sensing information, • Online crop model applications, • XML standards for agrometeorological bulletins, • Downscaled model information (gridded evapotransipiration

and soil moisture estimates),

New Technologies

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• To review the current status and capabilities of WAMIS

• To survey the current state-of-the-art information technologies and internet tools that have application to agrometeorology;

• To evaluate and identify technologies and tools on their usefulness to global or regional agrometeorological communities and their potential to be hosted on WAMIS;

• To make recommendations on potential new WAMIS applications including the development of draft project proposals

WAMIS Meeting – South Korea Apr 2010

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