1. GISC Exeter Status Report - 2016
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GISC Exeter Status Report
TT-GISC Melbourne 18th to 22nd April 2016 (Doc19)
Mark Francis
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2. Contents GISC/RTH Exeter Status Report RTH Exeter GTS connectivity
GISC Exeter WIS connectivity
WIS Items of interest
OpenWIS
WIS Issues
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3. RTH Exeter GTS connectivity
Connections to RTHs:
Brasilia, Melbourne, Moscow, New Delhi, Offenbach
Pretoria, Rome, Tokyo, Toulouse, Washington
Connections to NMCs:
Brussels, Copenhagen, De Bilt, Dublin, Lisbon,
Madrid, Montreal, Oslo, Reykjavik
Daily traffic:
Input 16 GBytes per day
Output 36 GBytes per day
99.99% availability between April 2015 and March 2016.
SLA for the RTH service at Exeter is 99.8% availability.
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4. GISC Exeter WIS connectivity
Backup of user subscriptions in co-operation with Météo-France.
Daily traffic statistics:
Ingesting 6.6GBytes of Essential data into 24hr Cache.
Replicating 300Mbytes of Essential data with GISC Météo-France.
Metadata catalog contains 154,514 records.
Daily catalog synchronisation with GISCs:
Beijing, Brasilia, Casablanca, Jeddah, Melbourne, Moscow
Offenbach, KMA, Tehran, Tokyo, Toulouse and Washington.
100% availability between April 2015 and March 2016.
SLA for the GISC service at Exeter is 99.8% availability.
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5. WIS Items of Interest
In September 2015, the first OpenWIS Development Conference took place at the Met Office in Exeter. Attended by experts from:
Met Office
Météo-France
Météo-France International
Korea Meteorological Administration
Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Next OpenWIS Development conference in Washington in September 2016.
Taking part in the pilot project to synchronize GISC cache through the cloud. Acting as proxy for Pretoria & Washington.
Metadata and User training scheduled for October 2016 in Toulouse.
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6. OpenWIS
OpenWIS software provides all GISC, vGISC, DCPC and NC functions.
OpenWIS is used operationally in:
Australia, Finland , France , Indonesia , Kenya , KMA
Morocco, The Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, UK, USA
Exeter DCPC will be operational in May 2016.
OpenWIS development:
Software development is being carried out as a collaboration involving all members of the association.
Latest release brings additional capability and bug fixes.
Development includes changes to GeoNetworks that will be committed back to the trunk version.
Software built nightly and a suite of automated tests run against the build.
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7. WIS Issues Hierarchical metadata expected by users:
Is it possible to have common sets defined?
Can common and specific sets be defined?
Performance & Quality monitoring.
Metadata ownership and publishing e.g. TIGGE metadata on GISC Beijing
Metadata catalogue and Cache inconsistencies between GISCs
User search experience needs to be improved.
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8. Any questions?
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