CAP Pilot System in China Meteorological Administration CAP Implementation Workshop – Geneva, 6-7 April 2011 Chunfang WANG National Meteorological Information Center of CMA

CMA Introduction CMA is a public service agency directly affiliated to the State Council of the People's Republic of China with the authorization by the State Council, CMA has been responsible for organizational and operational management of the national meteorological services as a whole. Hierarchical administrative system –1 National center –31 Provincial centers –328 Prefecture centers –2431 County offices Communication system –Private terrestrial wide band network –Satellite two way communication and broadcast network –WMO RTH Beijing, WIS GISC, GEONETCast network center Objectives –taking the people as our fundamental interests –being thoughtful, considerate and ready for –serving any customers anywhere at any time

Public Weather Service of CMA Media and Capability MediaServiceCapability TVChina Weather ChannelCover 20 Million families Weather TV program2978 TV channels RadioOcean weather radio station8 Weather radio program1,230 radio stations MobileSMS90 million Polyphonic ring tone0.24 million WAP32,000/people/month 3GTest Cell BroadcastTest

Public Weather Service of CMA Media and Capability MediaServiceCapability TelephoneAudio phone for weather forecast 26millon/month WEBhttp:// Top1 in weather service local web site Print mediaNews papers882 Local papers LED panelWeather forecast display96,726 Mobile TVWeather service programBus, subway Loud speaker in village80,000 Weather information personal0.67million

Existing Public Weather service Infrastructure Of CMA National wide all media, all hazard (Unexpected public events ) Public warning system Current Plan Expansion Improvement Modification

Challenge Technology –Coverage at sea area and distant area –Time effect, MSM –Understanding, minority people, handicaped people –Catalog and encoding for all unexpected public events –Multimedia distribution Coordination –Local bureaus of CMA –Other department –Telecommunication operators and service providers

Current Practice Event type encoding of 4 category, 33 sub category and 283 type has been submitted. Integrated alert edit and distribute platform has been developed CAP profile for alert dissemination from integrated platform to multimedia platform or private systems is under test New dissemination media is introduced –Beidou, China’s Navigation and communication Satellite

Integrated Platform and CAP Profile Difficulty: Additional national standard is needed to fill the gap between CAP and current national standard

Gap Between CAP and National Standard ElementCAPChina category“Geo”,“Met”,“Safety”,“Security”, “Rescue”,“Fire”,“Health”,“Env”, “Transport”,“Infra”,“CBRNE”,“Other” Nature disaster Accidental catastrophe Public health Social security responseType“Evacuate”,“Prepare”,“Execute”, “Avoid”, “Monitor”,“Assess”, “AllClear”, “None” - urgency“Immediate”, “Expected”, “Future”, “Past”, “Unknown” - severity“Extreme”, “Severe”,“Moderate”, “Minor”,“Unknown” Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue certainty“Observed”,“Likely”,“Possible”, “Unlikely”, “Unknown” -

Beidou Navigation Satellite System First generation system active-mode regional navigation system serving east and south Asia Three function –positioning –short-data communications –time service Second Generation is called Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS) –passive-mode global navigation system

Service Area of Beidou System

Beidou Alert Broadcast Format Start of Message Head –Distributing agency –issue time, effective time –Event code (event type and category) –Severity level (red, orange, yellow, blue, green) –Affected area (geo-code, circle, polygon) Text message End of Message

Beidou Terminal for Alert Reception SMS transmit and receive Alert receive Alert filtering according to targeted area (geo-code, circle, polygon) Severity indication Message display Text-to-Speech audio generation Beep tone Message storage active and power saving mode. AC/DC power supply with backup battery Backlight for low light situations.

Thank You Chunfang WANG Senior communication engineer National Meteorological Information Center China Meteorological Administration No.46,Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District,Beijing,China, Postcode: Tel: