1. GCOS Networks (GSN & GUAN) (2015 Report – GCOS Network Manager)
Global Climate Observing System
GCOS Networks (GSN & GUAN)
(2015 Report – GCOS Network Manager)
5th CBS-LC-GCOS & AGG
7-9th September BAS, Cambridge, UK

2. GCOS/GCM is concerned with …
The observations:
what is measured, how is it measured, where is it measured, how is the measurement sustained, etc.
Data transmission:
what is transmitted, with what time delay, in what code
Data management (including data rescue):
archiving and access to raw data, metadata, and data products
recovery and rehabilitation of past data
Data and products:
Fundamental records, including recalibration and homogenisation
Satellite retrievals, gridded fields from in situ and remotely-sensed measurements, etc.

3. GSN & GUAN Network

4. 2015 ( ) Summary – NCEI

5. GSN NCEI

6. RBCN NCEI

7. GUAN Performance 2015 (2011 – 14) - NCEP
Minimum requirement of 25 daily soundings each month to at least 30hPa.

8. GUAN March ECMWF

9. Network Station List (2016 update)

10. GCOS Focal Points / National Contacts

11. THANKYOU

12. c/o World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) E-mail: gcosjpo@wmo.int
GCOS Secretariat
c/o World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
7 bis, Avenue de la Paix
P.O. Box 2300
1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Reporting Relations
Impact of WG recommendations (e.g. for UNFCCC)