Fostering climate data in support of GFCS/CSIS WMO-OMM Omar Baddour Chief Division Climate Data Management Applications Observing and Information System Department WMO - GENEVA CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Collection, generation and exchange of climate data WMO-OMM Collection, generation and exchange of climate data Ongoing plans for improving climate data World Data Centres CCl priority (CCl-XV, February 2010) Towards high quality climate data system CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Collection, generation and exchange of climate data WMO-OMM Collection, generation and exchange of climate data Ongoing plans for improving climate data World Data Centres CCl priority (CCl-XV, February 2010) Towards high quality climate data system CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

The Global Observing System underpins climate data collection WMO-OMM Surface & Ocean in situ observing networks Upper-air networks Surface remote sensing (Radar) networks Airborne and observations Satellite CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Climate Data Management Data Management for operational weather analysis and forecast time-critical exchange SYNOP, SHIP, TEMP, AIREP, ….. Reports Data Processing WMO-OMM Numerical Weather Prediction Observations QC Weather Analysis and Forecast GTS GDPFS Climate Data Management Climate System Monitoring Monthly CLIMAT Reports Data Homogenisation QC Climate Data Management System (CDMSs) Climate Assessment & Projections Climate Data sets QC, DIGITAL ARCHIVING, RETRIEVAL & DATA SERVICES Reanalysis National Climate summaries & data products (NMHS) Climate Models Climate Prediction DARE CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Global climate data exchange WMO-OMM Real Time Data reporting and exchange SYNOP SHIP TEMP  Content (Manual on GOS, Guide to GOS)  Dissemination manual on Code and manual on GTS  Processing ( GDPFS) These reports are also used to generate operational climate monitoring at 10 and 30 days periods Monthly CLIMAT / CLIMAT-SHIP / CLIMAT TEMP : Monthly averages  Content  Guide to climatological practices  Dissemination  GTS  Network - Regional Association (RBCN) - GCOS (GSN ,GUAN, GRUAN) World Weather Record (WWR) Compiled as monthly values of certain climate elements on 10year basis the latest edition 1991-2000 Compilation through WMO + Dataset development at NCDC Climate Normals WMO Compiled as 30 year averages of all climate elements available. Standard reference periods are used (… 1951-1980, 1961-1990,…) CLINO WMO No.847 CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Global Surface Temperature Datasets WMO-OMM Developped mainly for climate change assessement and monitoring There are three centres that maintain global climate datasets: Met Office, UK, in collaboration with the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom); National Climatic Data Center, which is part of NOAA (United States); Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which is part of NASA (United States). The development of climate datasets is based on the following: Routinely disseminated daily and monthly weather and climate observations by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of the 189 WMO Members following the WMO standards for data collection, quality control and exchange; Historical climate records dating back to 1850, including those available from marine climate summaries; Recovered old climate records worldwide as part of continuous data rescue efforts promoted by WMO and its Members; Peer reviewed scientific methods for quality control, homogenization and interpolation to constitute high-quality global climate datasets. The data sets are gridded 5°x 5° CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

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Collection, generation and exchange of climate data WMO-OMM Collection, generation and exchange of climate data Ongoing plans for improving climate data World Data Centres CCl priority (CCl-XV, February 2010) Towards high quality climate data system CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Ongoing WMO work on climate data WMO-OMM - WWR to be updated on yearly basis - Climate normals for operational climate services  Guidance to be prepared Promote exchanging useful climate extreme indices based on daily data ( formal procedure?) - Set up an International portal on historical Data and Metadata Capacity building on CDMS: + Assess existing infrastructure at national level and the need for improvement + Accelerate Data Rescue worldwide + Promote using WMO standards and WIS infrastructure for climate data and metadata discovery, access and exchange through training workshops CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Collection, generation and exchange of climate data WMO-OMM Collection, generation and exchange of climate data Ongoing plans for improving climate data World Data Centres CCl priority (CCl-XV, February 2010) Towards high quality climate data system CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

World Data Centres WMO-OMM World Data Center System part of the International Council of Scientific Union (ICSU), 52 WDCs as of 2003 The World Data Center system works to guarantee access to solar, geophysical and related environmental data. It serves the whole scientific community by assembling, scrutinizing, organizing and disseminating data and information. Meteorology and climat WDC for Meteorology, National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Asheville, USA WDC for Meteorology, National Meteorological Information Center , Beijing, CHINA WDC for Meteorology, All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information , Obninsk RUSSIA World Data Centre for Climate, Humburg Germany WMO World Data Centres World Radiation Data Centre (WRDC), St Petersburg, RUSSIA World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre (WOUDC) CANADA World Data Centre for Aerosols (WDCA), Kjeller, Norway WMO World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG) Tokyo, JAPAN World Data Centre for Precipitation Chemistry, (WDCPC) Albany, U.S.A. World Data Centre for Remote sensing of the atmosphere (WDC-RSAT), Wessling, GERMANY Other interesting WDCs : Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Glaciology, Land cover, Renewable resources and environement, Sun Spot.... CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Data information Systems WMO-OMM ICSU- World Data System WDS GAW Station Information System- GAWSIS Global Observing Systems Information Centre - GOSIC CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

Collection, generation and exchange of climate data WMO-OMM Collection, generation and exchange of climate data Ongoing plans for improving climate data World Data Centres CCl priority (CCl-XV, February 2010) Towards high quality climate data system CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

CCl priority w.r.t climate data WMO-OMM CCl-XV stressed the importance of climate data in climate monitoring, research and applications, climate change and adaptation as well as in supporting the operation of the newly established Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). Recognizing that real opportunities exist for the improvement of climate data management in its various aspects including archiving, quality control, discovery and timely exchange Underlining that collaboration of Members is critical to ensure high quality, timely and accessible climate data from all possible sources encompassing land and marine data and including in-situ, space based and proxy data. CCl-XV recommended to work towards to the development of a high quality global climate data management system which will benefit from the progress made in implementing modern Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs) and Climate Data Rescue (DARE) and the utilization of international standards for data representation, exchange and database models. CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

High quality global data management system for climate HQ-GDMSC WMO-OMM HQ-GDMSC will support the operational functions of the GFCS Climate Services Information System. Its concept is based on putting in place operational climate data processes. It will build on and link Climate Data Management infrastructure at country level, regional and global levels. The technical procedures for operating the HQ-GDMSC will build on existing WMO manuals with the core elements being the CCl Guide to Climatological practices, the guidelines on best practices (WCDMP series) and the upcoming WIS and WIGOS manuals. HQ-GDMSC will use WIS data discovery, access and retrieval facilities and standards, and WIGOS standardization for Quality Control and Quality Assurance CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

HQ-GDMSC in the GFCS / CSIS context WMO-OMM CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011

WMO-OMM THANK YOU CSIS workshop, Geneva 5-7 April 2011