1. Markus Heene, DWD markus.heene@dwd.de
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Markus Heene, DWD

2. Agenda Welcome Timeline Capacity building Metadata review 24h cache
Plans
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3. Timeline September 2011 – Start operations GISC Offenbach
December – Start operational metadata exchange with CMA and JMA
January 2012 – Start WIS operations together with CMA and JMA
June 2012 – UK MO and Météo France joined as operational centres
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4. Capacity Building and WIS Jumpstart Offers
September 2010 – WIS Jumpstart Offer, Turkish State Meteorological Service
October 2010 – WIS Workshop with SMHI
October 2010 – WIS Workshop with Czech Hydrometeorological Institute at DWD
September 2011 – WIS Jumpstart Offer, South African Weather Service
January 2012 – WIS Workshop with Meteo Swiss
February 2012 – WIS Workshop with Meteorological and Hydrological Service Croatia
April 2012 – WIS Jumpstart offer, RHMS Serbia
October 2012 – WIS Workshop with Turkish State Meteorological Service
DWD is strongly committed to capacity building and supports WIS related projects like BALTRAD+, GAWSIS, …
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5. Metadata reviews Review WMO baseline metadata Review examples 1. Step
Tool based review (check for missing metadata, …)
2. Step
Manual review of particular cases
Review examples
Contact Details, availability (CU)
Access Rights
WMO Essential, WMO Additional or WMO Other
Geography
Geography correct
Bounding Box
If BUFR: Geography is based on Table C3 and not the country or stations ( )
Missing stations
Keywords
Insert a few keywords
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6. 24h cache WIS Core Network Additional connections
Tokyo
Moscow
Seoul
Melbourne …
Additional connections
Completeness of 24h cache
Ordering missing bulletins from RTHs
Improves up-to-dateness of VolC1
Inhouse benefits
NWP
GPCC
CLIMAT collection centre
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7. Plans Launch new GUI based on user feedback Continue capacity building
Workshops in AoR
WIS Jumpstart Offer
Improve quality of metadata
GISC Backup
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