1. Report of Responsible Members (RM) Hildrun Otten-Balaccanu (DE), Hing-yim Mok (Hong Kong, CH), Dr G.Krishnakumar (IN), Tomoko Sakama (JP), Jan Rozema (NL), Somova Svetlana (RU), Fraser Cunningham (GB), Eric Freeman (US) ETMC-5, June 22, 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

2. Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme (MCSS) Areas of Responsibility

3. Germany Area of responsibility: South Atlantic Ocean between 20°N and 90°S Service provided at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) –DWD also serves as one of two Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) CM Contributions from German VOS 2012-2014 : DM-data supply by German fleet during 2012/01 and 2014/12 All data are checked by DWD-HQC and MQCS-6 QC software

4. Germany RM Activities: –164,341 observations collected within area of responsibility from 2012/01 – 2014/12 from 17 different CM

5. Germany Potential Roles in MCDS: –Delayed-mode Data Acquisition Centre (DAC) –Global Data Assembly Centre (GDAC) to combine data and metadata from all streams (delayed and real time) with Higher-level Quality Control (HQC) DWD is already a registered DCPC –Centre for Marine-Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOC) To begin February 2012 Product development –Historical data (Data rescue project HISTOR): rescuing the existing data of the archives of Deutsche Seewarte –Delayed-mode data from German ships Development of high quality checking applications Processing of data Dissemination of high quality data and products for interdisciplinary use Mirroring facility of ICOADS data holdings contingent on the development of a CMOC-ICOADS

6. Hong Kong, China Area of responsibility: area bounded by the Equator and latitude 30°N, and longitudes 100°E and 120°E Service provided by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) CM Contributions from 2012-2014 (by year of observation): Year of observation Total ≤ 20082009201020112012 619524748142-2033 Year of observation Total ≤ 20092010201120122013 2825801225112-2199 Year of observation Total ≤ 20102011201220132014 208946493539093887 Number of data sent in 2012: Number of data sent in 2013: Number of data sent in 2014:

7. Hong Kong, China RM Activities: –79,020 observations collected within area of responsibility from 2010-2014 –2,229,424 total observations stored in HKO’s database (through 31/12/2014) 20102011201220132014Total 122231427021389187421039677020

8. Hong Kong, China Potential Roles in MCDS –Delayed Mode DAC for area of responsibility Collect marine climate data Prepare marine climatological summaries - Explore feasabililty of GDAC role

9. India Area of responsibililty: Indian Ocean Area north of 15 o S bounded by the longitudes of 20 o E and 100 o E Service provided by India Meteorological Department (IMD) CM Contributions: –Distributed in IMMT2 format –Quality controlled using MQC software version 4 Year 201020112012 Number of submitted observations Q118122971336 Q2--- Q3730-180 Q4--

10. India Archive quarterly files from GCCs 1961-2014: Currently producing decadal marine climatological summaries –2001-2010 is in progress

11. India Potential Roles in MCDS –DAC for VOS data collected in area of responsibility –Upgrading to WMO Climate Data Management (CDM) Systems

12. Japan Area of responsibility: western North Pacific and its marginal seas Service provided by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) CM Contributions from 2012-20115 by quarter: –Submitted to GCCs in IMMT-5 format and quality controlled using MQCS-7 standards JMA will continue efforts to increase the number of unmasked call signs in GCC delayed-mode submissions JanuaryAprilJulyOctoberTotal 201253465,6332,6683,01516,078 20133,5565,5352,40728,70314,258 20141,0534,8183,6511,38710,819 20151,7495,065 -- 6,814

13. Japan Potential Roles in MCDS DAC for marine climate data

14. Netherlands Area of responsibility: Mediterranean, Southern Indian Ocean and the Australian waters Service provided by Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) CM Contributions 2012-2014: DateNumber of submitted observations Jan-20121,661 Apr-201221,093 Jul-20127,315 Oct-201212,855 201335,867 201430,181 Total426,510

15. Netherlands RM Activities: –Number of observations archived from area of responsibility, since 1854: Potential Roles in MCDS –Due to budget cutbacks in staff and finances, there are no active roles anticipated in the MCDS Responsible AreaNumber of observations Mediterranean4,250,482 Southern Indian Ocean2,261,027 Australian waters3,228,480 Total9,739,989

16. Russian Federation Service provided by the All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Center (RIHMI-WDC) Data is in the IMMT-3 format checked against MQCS-5 164,503 observations submitted to GCC in last 5 years CM Contributions 2010-2014 :

17. Russian Federation CM Contributions 1997-2011: –1,414,845 observations provided to go GCCs Observations are currently provided to GCCs in IMMT3 format using MQC-5 qc software, with additional RIHMI-WDC qc applied

18. Russian Federation Spatial distribution of Russian observations submitted to the GCCs in last 5 years Potential Role in MCDS The Russian Federation is interested to play a role in the MCDS

19. UK Area of responsibility: North Atlantic Ocean Service provided by the UK Met Office –UK Met Office also serves as one of two Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) CM Contributions 2013-2015 (Q1): Data are processed using Met Office quality control software in addition to the MQC software YearTotal Obs 201387,385 201485,904 2015 (Q1)14,366

20. UK RM Activities: –Receive data in IMMT4 and qc with MQCS-6 software and UK Met Office HQC software –Volume of data stored in the UK Met database for the RM’s area of responsibility:

21. UK Potential Roles in MCDS –Heavily involved in development of MCDS –Migrate role as CM to DAC –Migrate role as GCC to GDAC –Potential role as mirroring Centre for Marine- Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOC)

22. US Area of responsibility: Western Atlantic and Central/Eastern Pacific Oceans Service provided by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) CM Contributions 2010-2012 (Q1-Q3): Observations submitted to GCCs in IMMT-4/5 format using MQCS-7 qc standards Quarter 1Quarter 2Quarter 3Quarter 4Total 2013112-1278-1390 2014312539682225260311921 20152553---

23. US RM Activities: –Archive quarterly files from GCCs containing observations made within and outside of the USA area of responsibility Potential MCDS Roles: –Consider migrating role of CM to DAC for US delayed-mode data –Consider role of DAC for real time GTS data –Continue to provide DAC service for the Voluntary Observing Ship Climate (VOSClim) fleet as needed/recommended by the JCOMM Ship Observation Team (SOT).

24. Questions?