1. NATIONAL DATA MONITORING REPORT
Hamza Akbelwa, PhD
Director, Forecasting Services
Tanzania Meteorological Agency
website:
2nd Workshop on WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring and Incident Management, December, Geneva, Switzerland

2. CONTENTS Introduction Monitoring
Proposed Solution for the national data monitoring
Observations

3. Observational Network

5. Number of Stations and telecommunications
The number of Tanzania synoptic station are 27 stations.
Dar es Salaam communication center is a national telecommunication network NMCs) which is center of collecting and transmitting of data.
GTS link to Nairobi (RTH) is working. Communication is through internet , AMSS (TRANSMET) and AFTN.

6. Number of Stations and telecommunications
Monitoring was conducted on 25 synoptic stations;
15 stations out of the above 25 are operating over the GTS for international data exchange;
Stations performance indicated that 2 stations (Bukoba and Mtwara) scored the highest marked 100% out of 25 GTS stations and (Mbeya) the is the only station marked the lowest (97%) on Synops;
For Metar reports Bukoba station scored the highest 100% while Mbeya station marked the lowest (97%); and
Graphs are presented to indicate the results for both Synops and METAR reports.

7. Digital Meteorological Observatory (DMO)
A software for determination of meteorological parameters, report generation, report transmission and archiving
Purpose of DMO
To improve TMA’s weather and climate forecasting by increasing accuracy in observation and monitoring 7

8. Purpose of DMO
Create interface for weather data (Input, Execution, Output)
Create interface for data analysis (trend)
Create interface for Climate data (Input, Execution, Analysis, Output)
Create interface for Observation/ observer control
Create interface for Severe weather monitoring and reporting 8

9. Interface Trend generation

10. Interface Visualization and Observation Control

11. Interface Visualization and Observation Control, Cont…

12. Observations
DMO reduces a big amount of paper used in recording data as part of climate change mitigation
DMO can generate BUFR messages category I and automatically transmit to AMSS

13. THANK YOU
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