CLIMATE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS BY Lubega N Fortunata, flubega@icpac.cnet, Climate Data management Expert. ICPAC P.O. Box 10304, 00100 Nairobi
AVAILABLE CDMS RECOMMENDED BY WMO WMO RECOMMEDE CDMS CDMS USED IN IGAD NMHSs CDMS DBMS Used Supplier License CLICOM DataEase WMO (CLICOM still used in a few countries but no longer maintained) Free CLIMSOFT MS Access MySQL PostgreSQL WMO license – support from other institutions e.g. Met Office, ACMAD Free, but license required for MS Access CLIDATA Oracle Czech Republic Hydromet and ATACO (a private company) License Required CLIWARE Roshydromet, Russian Federation Open Source? CLISYS Meteo France & MFI CLDB MicroStep-MIS, Slovakia CliDE BoM, Australia MCH Mysql Mexico (supported by WMO Water Programme) Others e.g. Finland (FMI) database developed for capacity development projects e.g. Nepal Various # Country CDMS Used Status of use 1 SUDAN CLIMSOFT Good 2 DJIBUIT _ 3 ETHIOPIA CLIDATA 4 SOUTH SUDAN Inefficient 5 UGANDA CLICOM Poor 6 KENYA Efficient Use 7 TANZANIA 8 ERETREA 9 SOMALIA 10 RAWANDA 11 BURUNDI