1. The WMO MEditerranean DAta REscue (MEDARE) Initiative
By Manola Brunet
WMO/CCl Co-chair OPAG 2 Monitoring and Analysis of Climate Variability and Change
Centre on Climate Change (C3), University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich, UK
ACRE DATA & DATA VISUALISATION MEETING, Met Office, Exeter, UK,
15th – 17th September 2009

2. 1. A RECENT & LONG RUN ONGOING WMO COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE FOR ENHANCING INSTRUMENTAL CLIMATE DATA AVAILABILITY OVER THE GMR FOR THE SURFACE ATMOSPHERIC DOMAIN
2. A JOINT EFFORT BRINGING TOGETHER CLIMATOLOGISTS FROM NMHSs WITH SCIENTISTS FROM UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH CENTRES & INTERNATIONAL BODIES AND PROJECTS
3. WITH THREE BASIC COMPONENTS:
UNDERTAKING DARE PROJECTS
DEVELOPING HIGH-QUALITY SURFACE CLIMATE DATASETS
CAPACITY BUILDING ON DARE&D&H
WHAT'S MEDARE

3. BACKDROP Antecedents: The GCOS Regional Plan for the Med Basin
The WMO/WCDMP International Workshop on Rescue and Digitization of Climate Records in the Mediterranean Basin (Tarragona, November 2007)
Got WMO EC-60 endorsement to MEDARE (June 2008): “The Council endorsed the MEditerranean climate DAta REscue (MEDARE) initiative…. It urged all Members, and particularly those in the Mediterranean Region, to support the initiative”

4. ORGANIZATION Management groups: Working groups:
Steering Group: A 3-years rotating steering group to allow all MEDARE countries to be part of the system
The first MEDARE SG will be composed of
Chairs:
Pierre Bessemoulin (WMO: CCl President)
Manola Brunet (co-chair WMO/CCl OPAG2)
Members:
Phil Jones (CRU, UEA)
Sylvie Jourdain (Meteo France)
Tania Marinova (Bulgarian NMHS)
Serhat Sensoy (Turkish NMHS)
Azzadine Sazi (Algerian NMHS)
Elena Xoplaki (UBern)
Supporting organisations (most of
the Med NMHS involved: 20)
Working groups:
WG1. Inventorying/assessing/approaching old material sources and holders.
WG2. DARE techniques and procedures (including digitization).
WG3. Approaches on best practices for quality controlling and homogenizing specific climate variables.
WG4. Promotional activities, bringing MEDARE to the wider scientific and other communities

5. ACTIVITIES & OUTPUTS Publicising MEDARE & Raising awareness
Conferences attendance:
WMO/CCl/ETCCDI: Vietnam, December 2007;
UNFCCC Expert Meeting on Methods and Tools and Data and Observations under the NWP on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change (March 2007). Recommendation:
“Enhance and promote data recovery, as historical data is of great importance for improving the reliability of predictions and projections of climate variability and change”
European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting (Vienna, 2008)
WMO/CCl Expert Team on the Rescue, Preservation and Digitalization of Climate Records: Mali, May 2008;
WMO/CCl/ETCCDI/ENSEMBLES Mtg: Holland, May 2008,
The 31st International Geographical Congress: Tunis, August, 2008
EMS/ECAC Meeting: Amsterdam, Holland, September, 2008
AEC Int. Conference: Tarragona, Spain, October 2008
CLIVAR-ES Workshop: Madrid, Spain, February, 2009
Plinius 11th Conference, Barcelona, September 2009
Publicising MEDARE
Brochures, posters, DVD,
MEDARE proceedings
MEDARE web site:
Organizational: Setting up of the SG and WGs

6. MEDARE website & Data Portal:
A web site linking MEDARE Community, raising awareness, data & documentation exchange
A web data portal for climate data and metadata archiving and accessing
The first step a Data Inventory (shortly accessible on-line)
Aimed, first, at identifying and getting metadata of the longest and not available climate records in the Med Basin (to be targeted as MEDARE project) and to get an overview of what climate data is available.
Second, as an integrated web portal infrastructure to data entry and access
With a restricted space (password protected) for MEDARE Community and users
Regulated by MEDARE data policy

7. Data exchange policy and the recovery of critical long-records will be discussed and initially agreed at
The 2nd MEDARE workhop: Addressing climate data sources and key records for the Mediterranean Basin in support of an enhanced detection, prediction and adaptation to climate change and its impacts (Malta, early 2010)

8. WITH THE HOPE MEDARE WILL BE AN USEFUL INSTRUMENT TO ENHANCE CLIMATE DATA AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OVER THE GMR

9. THANK YOU