The WMO MEditerranean DAta REscue (MEDARE) Initiative By Manola Brunet WMO/CCl Co-chair OPAG 2 Monitoring and Analysis of Climate Variability and Change Centre on Climate Change (C3), University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich, UK manola.brunet@urv.cat ACRE DATA & DATA VISUALISATION MEETING, Met Office, Exeter, UK, 15th – 17th September 2009

1. A RECENT & LONG RUN ONGOING WMO COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE FOR ENHANCING INSTRUMENTAL CLIMATE DATA AVAILABILITY OVER THE GMR FOR THE SURFACE ATMOSPHERIC DOMAIN 2. A JOINT EFFORT BRINGING TOGETHER CLIMATOLOGISTS FROM NMHSs WITH SCIENTISTS FROM UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH CENTRES & INTERNATIONAL BODIES AND PROJECTS 3. WITH THREE BASIC COMPONENTS: UNDERTAKING DARE PROJECTS DEVELOPING HIGH-QUALITY SURFACE CLIMATE DATASETS CAPACITY BUILDING ON DARE&D&H WHAT'S MEDARE

BACKDROP Antecedents: The GCOS Regional Plan for the Med Basin The WMO/WCDMP International Workshop on Rescue and Digitization of Climate Records in the Mediterranean Basin (Tarragona, November 2007) Got WMO EC-60 endorsement to MEDARE (June 2008): “The Council endorsed the MEditerranean climate DAta REscue (MEDARE) initiative…. It urged all Members, and particularly those in the Mediterranean Region, to support the initiative”

ORGANIZATION Management groups: Working groups: Steering Group: A 3-years rotating steering group to allow all MEDARE countries to be part of the system The first MEDARE SG will be composed of Chairs: Pierre Bessemoulin (WMO: CCl President) Manola Brunet (co-chair WMO/CCl OPAG2) Members: Phil Jones (CRU, UEA) Sylvie Jourdain (Meteo France) Tania Marinova (Bulgarian NMHS) Serhat Sensoy (Turkish NMHS) Azzadine Sazi (Algerian NMHS) Elena Xoplaki (UBern) Supporting organisations (most of the Med NMHS involved: 20) Working groups: WG1. Inventorying/assessing/approaching old material sources and holders. WG2. DARE techniques and procedures (including digitization). WG3. Approaches on best practices for quality controlling and homogenizing specific climate variables. WG4. Promotional activities, bringing MEDARE to the wider scientific and other communities

ACTIVITIES & OUTPUTS Publicising MEDARE & Raising awareness Conferences attendance: WMO/CCl/ETCCDI: Vietnam, December 2007; UNFCCC Expert Meeting on Methods and Tools and Data and Observations under the NWP on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change (March 2007). Recommendation: “Enhance and promote data recovery, as historical data is of great importance for improving the reliability of predictions and projections of climate variability and change” European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (Vienna, 2008) WMO/CCl Expert Team on the Rescue, Preservation and Digitalization of Climate Records: Mali, May 2008; WMO/CCl/ETCCDI/ENSEMBLES Mtg: Holland, May 2008, The 31st International Geographical Congress: Tunis, August, 2008 EMS/ECAC Meeting: Amsterdam, Holland, September, 2008 AEC Int. Conference: Tarragona, Spain, October 2008 CLIVAR-ES Workshop: Madrid, Spain, February, 2009 Plinius 11th Conference, Barcelona, September 2009 Publicising MEDARE Brochures, posters, DVD, MEDARE proceedings MEDARE web site: http://www.omm.urv.cat/MEDARE/index.html Organizational: Setting up of the SG and WGs

MEDARE website & Data Portal: http://www.omm.urv.cat/MEDARE.index.html A web site linking MEDARE Community, raising awareness, data & documentation exchange A web data portal for climate data and metadata archiving and accessing The first step a Data Inventory (shortly accessible on-line) Aimed, first, at identifying and getting metadata of the longest and not available climate records in the Med Basin (to be targeted as MEDARE project) and to get an overview of what climate data is available. Second, as an integrated web portal infrastructure to data entry and access With a restricted space (password protected) for MEDARE Community and users Regulated by MEDARE data policy

Data exchange policy and the recovery of critical long-records will be discussed and initially agreed at The 2nd MEDARE workhop: Addressing climate data sources and key records for the Mediterranean Basin in support of an enhanced detection, prediction and adaptation to climate change and its impacts (Malta, early 2010)

WITH THE HOPE MEDARE WILL BE AN USEFUL INSTRUMENT TO ENHANCE CLIMATE DATA AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OVER THE GMR

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