PRACTICE AND DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS China Meteorological Administration Pan Jinjun 2017.3 Genvena

The Principle of System Construction: Government organization Meteorological Adminstration undertaken Departments collabration Media participation 2

2015-05-18: the national emergency warning releasing center was put into official operation The construction of the national emergency warning releasing center is the important section of emergency management！

Objectives and Contents About 4 kinds of emergencies: Natural disasters, accidents disasters, public health emergencies, social security incidents, it has the ability of receiving, processing and timely releasing information. The Main Contents of Construction Setting up warning information management platform Improving the warning message methods Establishing operation, mechainsm, technical standards and specifications Establishing security system and support environment 4

NEWRS relationship and structure Early warning dissemination system emergency command system（20 sectors） provincial 手机预警平台 Business & Operating Support System national Municipal and county Local featured warning system Internet early warning service NEWRS Departments’ self-built distribution channels IP channel network IP distribution network National emergency broadcasting system Social media Info collect, verify, release Social media NEWRS gathered info from emergency command sectors, and verified info adopted by CAP, then release them through dissemination system to the public and the person in charge of emergency. Adopted CAP Cell phone early warning platform Restricted channel for person in charge of emergency 应急责任人专用通道

Overall Process Design of Warning Information Distribution 100% 100% 95% Message Speaker 100% Warning information LED 90% Websites 100% Leader approval TV Printing document Warning levels Warning types Warning contents Images Warning Release Releasing situation 舆情 System approval Track and feedback Approval documents Quick report Analysis Summary Generating analysis report Emergency duty staff Publishing department staff

Nationwide early warning release system construction scale 1 national center Nationwide early warning release system has been built with 1 national, 31 provincial, 343 municipal, and 2015 county centers. 31 provincial center 343 municipal center 2015 county center 6085 specialty staff

rapid release of the designated area via entire network 31 provincial 1 national National center Provincial center Municipal and county centers 342 municipal and 2015 county

4. Sharing of early warning across departments Land & Resources Water conservancy Health Environment Transportation Agriculture …… Forestry Tourism Earthquake Meteorology Marine 15 Chinese government authorities Natural disasters Accidental disasters Social security Public health Adopted CAP By sharing the warning information freely, the cross departments should be cooperating response with each other rapidly.

NEWRS based on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Adopted CAP standards to establish release progress and tech principals NEWRS based on the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) a CAP-based regional meteorological warning system is completely feasible and necessary The world meteorological organization promote the international general alarm protocol implementation. Geneva

Different Application of National-CAP CAP version 1.2 Application in National Early Warning System of China Identifier A number or string uniquely identifying this message, assigned by the sender. Set detailed rules for Identifier, 30 bit code, including country, district, first-class unit, second – class unit, extension bit and time. SenderCode Added labels, code of organization. event The text denoting the type of the subject event of the alert message The code of event type,5 bit code. (e.g.,11B01 means typhoon). SendTime Effective onset expires Represented in the Date Time. (e.g., 2016-05-24T16:49:00-07:00) (e.g., 2016-05-24 16:49:00+08:00) … …

Improvement of Distribution Channels Based on the current channels: Broadcast TV Internet Marine radio Loudspeakers Display New Channels have been developed: Emergency message platform National emergency message website Broadcast and TV special line Meteorological service center Enlarge the scale of emergency message, and improve the releasing time of warning information. 12

WWW.12379.CN Main functions： 10 Channels 3 types warning publishing channels Websites content management Analysis of traffic statistics 13

Multiaspect cooperation, China Weather TV Starting in May 18, 2006 China Weather TV broadcasts 150 minutes live program daily. Providing uninterruptedly release 24 hours per day for TV meteorological service programs, including weather news and information, warning and forecasting, documentary “China Mitigation” program, cooperating with the Ministry of Civil Affairs since 2012 , is the most authoritative platform to interpret national disaster prevention and mitigation policies and to popularize the disaster prevention knowledge China Weather TV Being a timely, comprehensive platform for meteorological forecast and warning information communication service Becoming the most authoritative publicity platform for meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation Warning releasing in time NEWS Multiaspect cooperation, Nationwide linkage Documentary Disaster prevention and mitigation Popularizing knowledge

Touch Interactive Display system for Weather Show Program Real-time Data Visualization with outstanding special effect. Diversified product line includes Weather Forecast, Early Warnings, real-time weather data. Real-time tech. support for China Weather Channel, which is launched first during typhoon CHAN-HOM coverage.

12379 National Early Warning APP Multi-disaster early warning information Based on user’s location According to user’s needs Subscribing by adding attention to the city

China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System By now, Beidou Global Positioning System has converd the Asian-Pacific region And by the year 2020, it can cover all the world by 35 satellites Quick-positioning, Location-reporting, Informaiton-exchange played important roles in various areas Disaster mitigation Surveyiand mapping Communication Water conservancy Marine Forest fire rescue etc. Now tens of thousands of ships can receive the warning information by Beidou Constellation GEO Satellite MEO Satellite Beidou terminal distribution in Shanxi Province

Suggestions for Roadmap of Sendia Framework Establish a worldwide unified early warning release system via CAP which has been proved available in China, with the most complicated disasters. WMO should consider to support the project of the system construction, and CMA glad to take part in. Coordinated development of digital model and forecasting technology all of the world, promote scientific research ability.

Thank You contacts: Jinjun Pan, the deputy director of CMA Public Meteorological Service Center EMAIL: panjinjun@cma.gov.cn