1. Chris Little, Met Office, RTH & GISC Focal Point
WIS Implementation Plan in RA VI GISC Seoul Workshop, Jeju, Korea,
Chris Little, Met Office, RTH & GISC Focal Point
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3. RMDCN - Next Generation
Contract has been re-tendered after 10 years
Cut over plan milestones:
Pilot sites to
Initial deployment to
Reliability testing to
Main migration to
Switch off old network
Same or increased bandwidth
Technology & price refresh after 3 & 6 years

4. RA VI GISCs Operational and endorsed by WMO Cg: GISC Exeter
GISC Offenbach
GISC Toulouse
Plan to offer West European (virtual) GISC
GISC Moscow
Pre-Operational
to be audited early 2013

5. RA VI DCPCs 27 in RA VI Endorsed by WMO Cg or EC: 22 more proposed:
6 France
10 Germany
1 Norway
8 UK
1 ECMWF
1 EUMETSAT
22 more proposed:
1 Croatia
1 Finland
2 Netherlands
7 Russia
3 Sweden
1 Bulgaria
1 Czech Rep
2 Italy
2 Norway
1 Serbia
1 UK

6. RA VI WIS Implementation Workshop
RA VI (2009) established WG/TDI and TT/WIS-DI
(Working Group on Technical Development and Implementation)
(Task Team on WIS Development & Implementation)
1st Workshop, NIHM Sofia, Bulgaria,
Draft Implementation Plan developed by RAVI WG/TDI, TT/WIS-DI & Management Group
Several workshops on GISC backup in 2012
Next backup workshop at DWD, Nov 2012

7. RA VI Implementation Plan for NC - 1
1. Make internal decision to join WIS in RA-VI.
2. Choose a WIS Focal point, who should be knowledgeable about current GTS transmissions.
3. Check comms network connectivity, including bandwidth to current RTH and Internet access.
4. Check the traffic pattern of GTS data. Ensure bandwidth is sufficient to send & receive all data without undue delays. If not, plan increase in bandwidth or stay with GTS data transmissions.
5. Determine which GISC in the region should become the primary GISC. Communicate with GISC to gain its approval.
6. Inform WMO by PR letter of decision to be an NC, the choice of primary GISC and WIS Focal point.
7. Set up communication link to primary GISC via RMDCN. Create GISC user account for administrative matters.

8. RA VI Implementation Plan for NC - 2
8. Decide whether metadata editing done locally or remotely at GISC. Set up editing software locally or a connection to the GISC for editing.
9. Train a staff member and a reserve in the WMO Metadata Core Profile, either WMO or GISC training courses or via the WMO Jumpstart Offer.
10. Take responsibility for the metadata records describing data submitted by the NMHS. If necessary, modify the initial metadata records provided by Météo-France.
11. Start using WIS to send and receive data with appropriate metadata descriptions.
12. Join the user group of the GISC by attending meetings and other organised events.
13. Help monitor the regional WIS by regularly updating the country’s records in the Country Data Base including availability of service, traffic figures, errors and other comments.

9. RA VI Implementation Plan for DCPC
More or less the same steps as for NC, plus:
Gain support and liaise with the appropriate WMO Programme for the DCPC data to be made available.
An RTH that wishes to become a DCPC, the NCs to be connected to the new DCPC for data collection and distribution services should be contacted for support, expressed by the relevant PRs.
In accordance with the mandatory services to be provided by a DCPC as described in the Manual on WIS, select the necessary special software and install it locally. Make sure that it passes all the tests for DCPC’s which have been published by WMO.
Inform and liaise with WMO CBS and appropriate Expert Teams.

10. RAVI WIS draft Implementation Plan - 1
Background
Cg-XVI Decision to implement WIS; WMO guiding documents (1060, 1061); GISCs and DCPCs endorsed
Levels of planning:
Global
Regional
National
RA VI Scenario – brief explanation of the ToRs of WG on Technology Development and Implementation (WG/TDI) and Task team on WIS Development and Implementation (TT/WIS-DI)

11. RAVI WIS draft Implementation Plan - 2
Objectives:
Harmonized and synchronous implementation by RA VI Members;
Optimize and achieve maximum compliance;
Ensure that capacity building needs of Members are addressed properly through regional cooperation

12. RAVI WIS draft Implementation Plan - 3
Planning Elements
Designation of (additional) DCPC and NC and notification to WMO
Determination of Primary GISC
Capacity for handling metadata (staged?)
Capacity for DAR
Monitoring capabilities
(GTS development and evolution – RMDCN development)
Capacity development – identification of RA VI and respective action plan with involvement of all GISCs
Assisting tools – dedicated web pages; on-line forum

13. RAVI WIS draft Implementation Plan - 4
Staged implementation - Timeline
Designation of all centres participating in the RA VI WIS Structure – end of 20xx
Capabilities – metadata, DAR – end of 20xx
All GISCs fully functional – 20xx
All DCPCs fully functional – 20xx
All NCs fully implemented – end of 20xx

14. RAVI WIS draft Implementation Plan - 5
Monitoring and Evaluation
Milestones
– the first milestone is the Workshop itself;
RA VI Session Sep 2013
– implementation progress report
KPIs
Progress monitoring and reviews (WG/TDI & Task Team)
Risk analysis

15. RA-VI NCs and nominated GISCs
GISC Offenbach
Austria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Finland
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Montenegro
Romania
Serbia
Sweden
Switzerland
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
GISC Exeter
Netherlands
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
GISC Toulouse
France
GISC Moscow
Armenia
Belarus
Republic of Moldova
Russian Federation
Ukraine

16. RA-VI NCs: no nominated GISC
Albania
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Denmark
Estonia
Georgia
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Netherlands1
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Syrian Arab Republic
Turkey

17. RA VI Implementation Plan status
Areas of responsibility between 4 RA-VI GISCs should be finally agreed during RA-VI session June 2013

18. WMO Future activities Lots of WMO Technical work:
Agree cache replication mechanism (OpenWIS proposes Bit Torrent over RMDCN)
Tighten WMO Core ISO19115 Metadata interoperability
“Business as Usual” operating procedures with CMA, JMA, …
Back-up between UK & France OpenWIS and DWD IBL
Improve connectivity of GTS/RMDCN/MTN (ITT in 2012/13)
Rollout:
more countries in RA-VI and MTN
WMO ET work – metadata, registries
Open source release of OpenWIS, community building
VCP and project activities (e.g. Algeria,…, Zambia)
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19. Questions & Answers
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20. Spare slides, to be used only if required
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21. Internet and Web traffic
‘Wave’, Invent’ & WOW (public beta test!)
Also secure sites for other customers
Hot failover clusters in two IT Halls
2 x 100Mb/s, scalable up at 24 hours notice
Public Web site hits in two hours in bad weather, page impressions/day normally.
Contract for Akamai edge servers to cope – pages tailored, dynamic, not static HTML
Service desk support

22. OpenWIS Open Source Geonetwork (Catalogue)
Licence compatibility with Open AM licence
Use with or without modifications
More secure, more scalable
DWD used OAI-PMH Java API
Open SSO / Open AM (Security)
Licence
Interfaces definition
Middleware with standards based interfaces
Postgres D/B
Possibility to add different software
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