1. GISC Exeter Status Report - 2015
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GISC Exeter Status Report
TT-GISC Brasilia 13th to 16th October 2015
Mark Francis
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2. Contents GISC/RTH Exeter Status Report RTH Exeter GTS connectivity
GISC Exeter WIS connectivity
WIS Items of interest
OpenWIS
WIS Issues
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3. RTH Exeter GTS connectivity
Connections to RTHs:
Melbourne, Moscow, New Delhi, Offenbach, Pretoria
Rome, Tokyo, Toulouse, Washington
Connections to NMCs:
Brussels, Copenhagen, De Bilt, Dublin, Lisbon,
Madrid, Montreal, Oslo, Reykjavik
Daily traffic:
Input 16 GBytes per day
Output 37 GBytes per day
99.99% availability between September 2014 and August 2015.
SLA for the RTH service at Exeter is 99.8% availability.
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4. GISC Exeter WIS connectivity
Backup of user subscriptions in co-operation with Météo-France.
Daily traffic statistics:
Ingesting 6.5GBytes of Essential data into 24hr Cache.
Replicating 280Mbytes of Essential data with GISC Météo-France.
Metadata catalog contains 149,000 records.
Daily catalog synchronisation with GISCs:
Beijing, Brasilia, Melbourne, Moscow, Offenbach
Seoul, Tehran, Tokyo and Toulouse.
100% availability between September 2014 and August 2015.
SLA for the GISC service at Exeter is 99.8% availability.
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5. WIS Items of Interest Implemented basic WIS Monitoring.
In September 2015, the first OpenWIS Development Conference took place at the Met Office in Exeter. Attended by experts from:
Met Office
Météo-France
Météo-France International
Korean Met Agency
Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Taking part in the pilot project to synchronize GISC cache through the cloud.
Exeter DCPC will be operational in December 2015.
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6. OpenWIS GISC, vGISC, DCPC, NC functions all use OpenWIS software.
Non-profit, Limited liability Association to own IPR created in August 2015.
Association members are GISCs:
Exeter, Toulouse, Melbourne, Seoul, Washington
OpenWIS will be in public GitHub repository
Documentation, test cases, etc.
Open Source governance:
Ordinary member – annual fee, influence direction.
Strategic member - big fee, control direction.
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7. WIS Issues All Metadata will need updating in the next year:
ISO19115:2006 -> ISO19115:2013
WMO Core Metadata 1.3 -> 2.0?
What strategic approach to adopt?
Use WMO Core 1.1 -> Core 1.2 -> Core 1.3 as prototype?
Hierarchical metadata expected by users:
Is it possible to have common sets defined?
Can common and specific sets be defined?
User search experience needs to be improved.
Performance & Quality monitoring.
Possibility of standardising subscription API using PubSub (publish / subscribe pattern).
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8. Any questions?
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