How do we best share and manage the data within WIS in order to fulfil the ever increasing demand for Weather and Climate Data? Submitted by: Working Group Three Expert team on WIS centres ET-WISC Melbourne, Australia. 18-22 April 2016 WMO. ET-WISC 2016

Fundamental issues There is a change in environment – demand, user needs, flexibility, data growth. Policies and governance issues Trying to understand global programmes that are diverse, that support global, regional and national needs There are many different ways of viewing the same information There needs to be a common language to describe this ET-WISC 2016

Achieving a global view of data - federation, harmonising data model Achieving a global view of data - federation, harmonising data model. A lot of time is spent harmonising data before you can use it So how to provide standardised formal data models that allows for federated data services to be built, with common data policies and governance systems in place? ET-WISC 2016

SERVICE CULTURE Culture change - drivers – how to keep users engaged, open up to more communities, user engagement – why do this? So that people use the data? So that the services are consumed, so that we meet agency goals, so that political masters are happy, so that funding is maintained. ET-WISC 2016

Know you customer – appropriate service levels, KPIs, Service Levels become very important, as does user feedback to maintain the service. Know you customer – appropriate service levels, KPIs, Providing services that exploit your core assets – ensures you remain aligned to your organisation’s mission statement. User feedback – small workshops and direct conversation. ET-WISC 2016

User behaviour has changed – User Community management function addressing differences between internal vs external users Priority User community – we generally know our proirty users, but who else? UNDP, World Bank, DRR, philanthropic groups (google etc) Feedback from users? Have discussion portals – ask questions and seek expertise. ET-WISC 2016

USERS Diversity of Users have different needs – some want a half terabyte a day, others want sub-setting. Some need near real-time vs online/offline delivery mechanisms Real-time access – availability is very important, User management processes needed ET-WISC 2016

TECHNOLOGY Address the technology stack - Use of private cloud – and data storage to give users what they want. Think about put processing capabilities in WIS, and think about policies to manage this that are acceptable to WMO members. Put the processing to the storage. Questions on how we architect this ET-WISC 2016

Public clouds have, in most cases, legal and policy implications. Look for the one-stop shop - provide common data interface to users so they don’t need to come to the centre – they just use the transparent interface. Public clouds have, in most cases, legal and policy implications. The need for WIS to be able to define services (SOA) – Could be exposed as an API. Non NMHS data isn’t exchanged by WIS – needs to be able to handle this. ET-WISC 2016

Large data volumes – harmonised climate data management in a harmonised way across WMO, with for e.g. Himawari data and model data and GCOS data. Some centres have specialised on certain data types, while NMHSs have broader needs – WIS to engage with these so they become WIS centres. Specialised Computational interfaces e.g. National computing infrastructure. Provide this via WIS via the cloud, including GIS capabilities, or hosted by a particular country. ET-WISC 2016

STANDARDS Different user communities use different standards in varying degrees. Needed to guarantee interoperability. ET-WISC 2016

SECURING LONG TERM RESOURCING Nothing is free – not even free data. WIS should support enhancing the core services of individual agencies to help them deliver to THEIR users. Explore tiered services, and the individual strengths of contributing agencies, in a thematic context. Data is THE asset, which has value, while you may not be able to charge for the data, you might be able to charge for the service provision. ET-WISC 2016

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