ICT-ISS – WIS strategy Matteo Dell’Acqua Expert team on WIS centres ET-WISC Melbourne, Australia. 18-22 April 2016

Information exchange service WIS status Network infrastructure, process and procedure to access and share data WIS intended to support all WMO Programmes; Reality is that only WWW is well represented. WIS is a network for expert (centres from WWW) Difficult to put new data on WIS Difficult to find data Difficult to know that WIS exist Dedicated MPLS networking is complex to manage and provides increasing IT security challenges Information exchange service The GTS is a merge of technical and procedural elements involving NMHSs and RTH GTS Infrastructure Network Connectivity WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

WIS status WIS Part A and WIS part B have very little in common WIS Part A is still mainly relying on current point to point store and forward MSS and still depends on TTAAii routing Very ‘fine-grained’ metadata; dominated by “GTS” bulletins “one metadata record per TTAAii+timestep” is damaging the search experience; e.g. when searching for temperature products, a user is deluged with bulletins ‘Quality’ of metadata is mixed With the retirement of WMO No. 9 Vol C1, the primary function of WIS appears to have become management of operational bulletins WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

WIS status Constant increase in the flow of data to exchange and information to be disseminated to our various users mean that it is necessary to re-think how data is shared Current and future earth observation mission/project continuously increase the amount of data available and computing power needs Data volumes created in numerical weather prediction continue to grow at a considerably faster rate than the performance of telecommunications networks In its current form, the WIS, and mainly the GTS, is a niche infrastructure that supports the expert meteorological community CBS-Ext(2014), OPG-ISS report

Opportunities Increasing use of the Web as a data sharing platform Commercial infrastructure providers offer stable, secure and cost-effective ‘cloud’ hosting of virtualized computing resources ‘content distribution networks’ (CDN) Search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.) remain the common entry point for consumer discovery of information OpenSearch API is widely used to enable searching within remote data holdings and forms a core element of the Open Geospatial Consortium Catalogue Service (CSW) specification Applications such as Dropbox indicate that file distribution services have become commoditized and are no longer the domain of specialized applications such as GTS message switching WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

Opportunities Infrastructure-level messaging services, e.g.  RabbitMQ, and messaging protocols, e.g. AMQP,  have become the de facto mechanism to share event driven notifications and alerts Common data sharing platforms and technology are a prerequisite Risk reduction and emergency response requires collaboration with multiple agencies Assessing the impact of environmental hazards requires meteorological data to be combined with other socio-economic data WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

WIS vision Information System operated by Members built on commercially available services and industry standards To exchange at the right moment the relevant information Redundant, resilient, efficient and scalable infrastructure With an applications/services layer A global catalogue of information and services And Ready to support SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics (Big Data), Cloud) and IoT One stop shop for meteorological information, the “virtual marketplace” of data and products of all WMO Programmes “WMO members have the data and we offer through WIS an open eco-system with application and services” Provide standard interfaces for data exchange and access Provide seamless experience to users to access information and services in real time and from archive in order to develop new services and products WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

WIS vision Move away from statically defined store and forward mechanism Subscription to events related to availability data Not limited to global data exchange, should be used also by any WIS centres “WIS cloud infrastructure” NCs and DCPCs publish ‘real-time’ data to cloud-based file repository Include common services across the cloud Add interoperable API and services onto the WIS with SLA to improve the exchange and easy sharing of data and information and develop new way to use met information Processing close to the data Mapping services Subsetting, aggregation Format conversion, reprojection WMO.ET-WISC, 2016 8

WIS vision NC and DCPC roles are the primary roles within WIS as these Centers generate the content Role of GISC become a management, governance function in operating a portion of the shared infrastructure Helping their affiliated Centers publish quality metadata and data Data providers can published directly on the central data store Providing quality control and timeliness metrics for data collected by affiliated Centers Governance body to define/review process on data to exchange, how to exchange them, how to manage them Operation, evolution, improvement, planification, … Evolution and not revolution Incremental changes New data should not be exchanged through the current routing technologies and should be provided through the new WIS system WMO.ET-WISC, 2016 9

WIS vision - the plateform Acquisition Dissemination Collaboration WMO.ET-WISC, 2016 10

WIS strategy - The cloud ! Opened to new partners from different business (energie, health, ..) to develop the use of WMO information WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

WIS Part C: Data Lifecycle Management Information activities Create Store Share Acquisition, dissemination, access services Use Processing services Archive Destroy WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

WIS strategy: what next 2nd WIS strategy ad-hoc meeting in May Finalyse the vision and draft strategy ICT-ISS meeting in June Review the draft document Draft sent to CBS MG Input from others TC Draft presented to CBS Guangzhou, November 2016 WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

Input from ET-WISC WG1 (chair: Weiqing, rapporteur: Hassan): Review the organisational structure( GISCs, DCPCs, NCs, network, governance, ... ) needed to best support the WIS and review the status of data centres that should be connected to WIS and define a strategy on how to engage with them WG2 (chair: Robert, rapporteur: Mark): Analyse how do we best present and  deliver data in a world that will be looking more and more carefully at weather & climate data WG3 (chair: Lothar, rapporteur: Kevin): Analyse how do we best share and manage the data within WIS in order to fulfil the ever-increasing demand of weather & climate data Invited expert : Bruce Bannerman WMO.ET-WISC, 2016

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