RA-IV WIGOS Implementation Workshop Curacao December 1- 3, 2015 Commonwealth of Dominica FITZROY PASCAL SENIOR METEOROLOGICAL OFFICER www.weather.gov.dm.

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RA-IV WIGOS Implementation Workshop Curacao December 1- 3, 2015 Commonwealth of Dominica FITZROY PASCAL SENIOR METEOROLOGICAL OFFICER

OUTLINE  MISSION  MAJOR MET EVENTS  STAFFING  OBSERVING NETWORKS  CHALLENGES / NEEDS  PLANS  WIGOS  SUMMARY

MISSION  To provide reliable, accurate weather information in a timely manner for safe air navigation, disaster preparedness, agriculture, tourism, forestry and water resource management.

MAJOR MET EVENTS  Hurricane DAVID  August 29,1979  56 Dead  180+ Injured  80% Houses damaged or destroyed  About 60,000 or 75% of pop. homeless  75% of Agriculture destroyed – mainly bananas and coconuts.

MAJOR MET EVENTS  Tropical Storm ERIKA  August 27, 2015  14 Confirmed dead  16 Missing  574 Homeless  713 Evacuated – 2 Communities  7229 people Impacted  EC$1.3B or US$483M Damage.  s  7229 people impacted

STAFFING SMOSLMTMLMTELMTMLMT ELMTMLMTELMTMLMT ELMT

OBSERVATION NETWORK Manned 2 (Aeronautical and Synoptic) Stations Automated 7 Full AWS - 2 located at each Airport - 2 located at National Parks - 1 located in an Agricultural Region 12 Rainfall Stations 1 Water level monitoring – River 1 Soil monitoring

REPORTING AIRPORTS Transmit via NWS EDIS INPUT - Hourly routine aviation reports - Synoptic and Intermediate reports BRCCC 1 Agricultural Station transmits via GOES CIMH DEWETRA Platform 2 Airport AWS 2 Rainfall Stations Water level Soil Monitoring

CIMH DEWETRA PLATFORM

Manually Downloaded

MAINTENANCE - Monthly sites visits - Data downloads - Cleaning - Maintenance/Repairs - Spot checks to identify anomalies

METADATA

CHALLENGES Terrain Suitable access and transportation to remote site Security, theft and vandalism Limited staffing Limited capabilities for Early Warning Limited Quality Control on AWS Data No Database Solely Internet RX / TX

NEEDS???  SHARING EXPERTISE 1. HARDWARE 2. SOFTWARE 3. DATABASE  STAFF TRAINING / DEVELOPMENT

FUTURE  CABINET HAS APPROVED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MODERN AND EFFECTIVE HYDRO- METEOROLOGICAL NETWORK TO BE OPERATED WITHIN THE DOMINICA METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE WITH COMMITMENT TO THE LONG- TERM SUSTAINABILITY OF THE NETWORK 1. METEOROLOGICAL BUILDING 2. HYDRO-MET NETWORK (AWS – TX) 3. CENTRAL REPOSITORY FOR ALL HYDRO-MET DATA

WIGOS  PRESENTLY, NO WIGOS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN  TRAINING NEEDS – TECHNICAL DIRECTION / EXPERTISE / RESOURCES TO SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT WIGOS  NO AGREEMENTS WITH PARTNERS  UNINTERRUPTED (RELIABLE) RX / TX METHOD FOR DATA ACCESS BY PARTNERS  QMS REALIZATION IS ONGOING  PROCESSES DOCUMENTED, BUT LACK MONITORING

SUMMARY  EVERY ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED TO IMPLEMENT WIGOS

Questions / Comments Thank You !