1. Mariane Diop Kane, Chair
Status of infrastructural development at NMHSs in Africa in support of systematic Observation and Telecommunication
Mariane Diop Kane, Chair

2. Observational networks
Sparse surface and upper air stations network
A number of stations not owned by NMHs
Poor infrastructures
Outdated meteorological equipment and buildings
Lack of maintenance and calibration
Lack of human resources: deficit of observers and lack of qualified staff
Deficit of observers
Lack of qualified staff
poor telecommunications for data transmission and reception
Limited financial resources

3. Sparse network and quality of data

4. Quality management system
ICAO constrainst ???
Some countries develop procedures for a quality mangement system and went through certification: South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria and ASECNA countries
How about the other countries?

5. Observations from space
Aircrafts (AMDAR)
Radar very few; often unoperational or under used; maintenance problems
Rely on others satellite and EU-AU projects (PUMA, AMESD, MESA) for acquisition, processing and visualisation systems.
South has Africa has launch some environnemental satellites. Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt have projects
Now AMCOMET space program
Meanwhile RAI needs to be ready for MTG. Will GMES catter for the Met Services and provide infrastructures?
RAIDEG is working with EUMETSAT to optimise the data sent to ARI as the volume of data will be huge (x100 than MSG) and EUMETSAT has bandwidth constraint

6. Data archiving & databases
Lots of data on paper and microfish
Heterogenous datasets from the same country:
Which one is right?
Difficult to get a good series of climate data; lots of gaps for many reasons (stations closed for wars or lack of staff, or insecure buildings ) to derive products for climate services in line with GFCS
Unqualified staff to manage the databases
Lack of archiving servers

7. GTS in Africa

8. WMO introduced WIGOS
A framework for integrating WMO observing systems and WMO contributions to co-sponsored observing systems,
… for better planning, operating and delivering observations to meet user needs, to enable more efficient and effective service delivery.

9. WMO introduced WIS A web based system, built on the GTS
Easy access to data through web search like google
data coded using standard defined format to allow easy exchange
Lots of advantages but needs qualified staff adequate infrastructures and telecommunications

10. NMC NC RSMC DCPC WMC DCPC and/or GISC RTH RTH on MTN Others
WWW centres
WIS centres
NMC NC
RSMC
DCPC
WMC
DCPC and/or GISC
RTH
RTH on MTN
Others
NC and/or DCPC

11. Potential DCPC in Africa: old RTH & RSMC, and RCC
ACMAD, Congo Brazza, Egypt CAIRO, Morocco, Niger Niamey RTH, AGRHYMET, Senegal Dakar RTH, RSMC & Aviation center, South Africa Pretoria RTH
Only Pretoria approved, the others have not yet submitted application to WMO relevant Commision
Potential GISC: Morocco and South Africa
Approved by Cg/EC june 2011 and pre-operational

12. To conclude: we need to invest a lot on
Infrastuctures
Telecommunications
Capacity development

13. Thank you
Merci