1. WMO PTC Meeting, 30 January-1 February 2012, Geneva. Collaborations among TCs for GFCS Implementation from the perspective of CAgM Byong-Lyol LEE President of CAgM

2. Objectives & Expectations To share impending issues within CAgM for future collaborations in GFCS implementations with TCs, RAs and Secretariat To invite suggestions/recommendations from PTC for efficient GFCS implementations by TCs under limited resource availability while reflecting WMO requirements including strategic plan. (human, financial, infrastructure & governance) To report recent progresses having been made with obstacles confronted or expected during implementation processes To bring up any necessity of re-structuring of CAgM for better management and operation in order to meet user requirements from member countries under GFCS umbrella

3. 1.Strategic Plan : GSN 3 – ST 5 – ER 8 Enhanced Capabilities for High Quality resources, Risk Management, better information service, earth system monitoring, ST developments, for emerging members through better partnerships and cooperations 2.WMO Reform a. Improved Documentation & communication between TCs and Ras b. Orientate the constituent bodies of WMO to deliver the Strategic Plan c. Reduce the intergovernmental part of constituent body sessions 3.GFCS Implementation 4.WIS Implementation 4.WIS Implementation - Agronomy data sharing beyond WMO 5.WIGOS Implementation 5.WIGOS Implementation – LDAS, Carbon Tracker supports WMO Requirements to CAgM a. Internal working methods, …deciding on implementation priorities, b. Mechanisms to strengthen the global cooperative system c. Projects for the needs of developing countries d. External communications, resource mobilisation and capacity development

4. GFCS Implementation Priorities by WMO 1. Capacity building in developing countries (CB) Linking climate service users and providers. Building national capacity for climate services. 2.Strengthening the Climate Services Information System (CSIS) Standardizing products; promoting WIS; facilitating access to, use of GPC products Strengthening regional climate capabilities through establishing and promoting RCCs and RCOFs 3.Building capacity to implement the User Interface Platform (UIP) 4.Improving climate observations in data sparse areas (OM) 5.Building the capacity of the climate research sector (RMP)

5. GFCS Structure vs CAgM Legacy Products/Applications Monitoring Communications User Interface CapacityBuilding CAgM GFCS

6. Legacy Service Components of CAgM WAMIS (CSIS, UIP,..) - Web portal of World AgroMeteorological Information Service INSAM (CB, RMP,..) - on-line International Society of Agricultural Meteorology NASNET (OM,..) - National Agricultural Meteorological Station Network RTC (CB,..) - Education/Training, Roving seminar, Field school, etc. TECO (RMP,..) - prior to Congress, ET meetings jointly with RA events/symposium Pilot projects (CSIS, UIP, RMP, OB,..) - regional/sub-regional research/operational programmes - WIS, WIGOS related pilot proposals WMO PTC Meeting, 30 January-1 February 2012, Geneva.

7. Global Federation of AgMet Society (GFAMS) Global Center of Research, Excellency in AgMet (CREAM) Global AgMet Pilot Projects (GAMPP) Global AgMet Outlook System (GAMOS) WAMIS next phase (WAMIS II) Global Initiatives in AgMet

8. Service Enhancement Scheme by CAgM WAMIS (CSIS, UIP,..) -> WAMIS Grid portal - Web portal to Grid Portal for resource sharing INSAM (CB, RMP,..) -> INSAM off-line - Global Federation of AgroMeteorological Society (GFAMS) NASNET (OM,..) -> Core AgMet Station - Crop Phenology, Ground truth information, flux monitoring, etc. - Global AgMet Outlook System (GAMOS) – drought, land use, etc RTC (CB,..) -> Global Center of Excellency in AgMet - Center of Research, Excellency in AgroMeteorology(CREAM) - including Graduate courses in AgMet. and Outreach Pilot projects (CSIS, UIP, RMP, OB,..) -> 1~3 in each RA - Global AgMet Pilot Projects (GAMPP) TECO (RMP,..) -> Regional/Global AgMet society meetings - prior to or in parallel with CAgM Congress or ET meetings - together with GFAMS, CREAMs, GAMPP, etc.

9. GAMOS (Global AgroMeteorogical Outlook System) - GDEWS (Global Drought Early Warning System) - GLUMS (Global Land Use Monitoring System) - GWHAS (Global Weather Hazard Assessment System ) - GPPON( Global Plant Phenology Observation Network) GAMOS GDEWS GLUMS GWH AS GPPON GFCS : Observation & Monitoring

10. NASNET Pilot Sites Tall Tower Observation Climate Change Monitoring Climate Change Landmark Water Cycle Monitoring Boundary Layor Monitoring GHG Background Monitoring Global WIGOS Reference Site - Data standardization at global scale - GEOSS supporting hub - WIGOS regional center - GEOSS demonstration site Core AgMet Station New Governance for enhanced AgMet National Service - Strengthening multi-institutional governance within a nation - High level education system for next generation AgMet experts - Core AgMet Station (national reference site for AgMet)

11. Global Federation of AgMet Society S.Asia - India E.Asia- Korea/Jap an/China OZ(?)- Australia/ NZ Africa- S.Africa(?) L.America -Brazil + ? N.America -USA /Canada Europe-/ Italy + EU GFCS : Research, Modeling, Prediction

12. Global Federation of AgMet Society(GFAMS) Mission : to strengthen INSAM for complementing with WAMIS, to consider simultaneous/parallel meeting with CAgM session Issues : How to establish regional associations, Who will take care (Federica, Shiv) - RAI : jointly help subregional AgMet society meetings when exists. (Sue, All) - RAII : China/Japan/Korea, India, Central Asia (Byong, Rathore) - RAIII : Already exists (Brunini) - RAIV : North A. MS A. Caribbean (Ray, Adrian) - RAV : SE Asia, Oceania (Roger) - RA VI : Europe, Eastern E (Simone, Sasha) * at least 2 persons needed : one from CAgM MG, another from Societies

13. Global AgMet Pilot Projects (GAMPP) Mission : to develop reg. specific operational applications Issues : How to identify then, who will take care? (MG members) - RA I : (Sue, John) - RA II : (Zhou, Rathore ) - RA III : (Brunini, Jose) - RA IV: (Ray, John, Adrian ) - RA V : (Roger, Azhar) - RA V : (Simone, Federica, Sasha )

14. Global Center of Excellency Cream- India (PAU?) Cream- Korea (SNU) Cream- Australia (SQU) Cream- S. Africa (FSU?) Cream- Brazil (SPU) Cream- USA (GMU) Cream- Italy (UFL) GFCS : Capacity Development CREAM : Center of Research & Excellency in AgroMeteorology

15. RA I : South Africa – Free State University (Sue) RA II: S. Korea – Seoul National University (Byong) China - Nanjing RTC / ST University (Caifang) India – Pune Agric. University (Lathore) RA III : Brazil – Federal University (Paulo, Brunini) RA IV : USA – George Mason University (John) RA V : Australia – Southern Queensland University (Roger) RA VI : Italy – University of Florence (Simone) * Scholarships for Graduate Course : Rob Masters, Bob Stefanski * Joint Graduated Course in AgroMet at global scale Candidates for CREAMs

16. GFCS : User Interface Platform uWAMIS - RS/GIS, Global Climate/weather info, NWPS, GISC/(DCPC), CAMI, DSSAT, JAWF, E/T, GFCS kWAMIS - IT/GIS, IT Resource, NWPs, Downscaling, GISC/(DCPC), Russia/FSU-DM, Interface, E/T, GFCS iWAMIS - Model/GIS, INSAM, Reg. projects, Phenology GISC/(DCPC)(DWD), COST, Education/Training bWAMIS - *Region-specific Information GISC/(DCPC) Argentina/Peru for Spanish aWAMIS - sWAMIS -

17. GRID Portal Resource sharing Forecast-based AgMet Services for researcher / extension Benchmarking on AMBER (DWD), expanding with DSAT NCAR (GDAS, MM5), DWD (GME, LM) as NWPs Super ensemble of Seasonal Forecasts (APCC / KMA, etc.) GISC / DCPC dedicated to WAMIS will be established (NCAR, DWD) LIS (NASA) as a framework for LSM (GDS / LAS + GRID) Web Portal information sharing XML-based service : standard schema development Machine translation : multi-lingual interfaces Operational applications based on Web service architecture Tutorial interfaces for real practices WAMIS next phase for resource sharing

18. GISC UNIDAT Data Broker GDS LAS DCPC NCAR NCDC TIGGE WAMIS Climate Projection SIP GDAPS / GME RDAPS / GME : WRF Mesoscale model Nowcasting Historical (Legacy) data Non-Meteorological Data Surface Flux Vegetation Soil Profile GRID Computing Data Access Computation Research KMA/KISTI WAMIS Grid Portal AMBER DSSAT GIS RS User Interface GridSphere END- USERS K*GRID eScience LDAS/LIS Flux, GHG Data Grid MME Applied Meteorology GFCS : Climate Service Information System

19. Emerging Needs & Requirements Urgent Needs : High quality, Value-added, Feasible, Operational, Diverse Applications at Farmers site (Quantitative) Value-added Operational Service (Qualitative) Feasible Communication Networks (Timely) Impending Requirements : High-resolution information production (spatial/temporal/elemental) Feedback Mechanism from Users (bidirectional communication) ICT Resource Sharing Platform (Computing/Storage/Networks/Interface) Future Considerations Contribution to NWP models (as information provider) Multi-lingual Translation (efficient sharing of experiences/information)

20. Implementation of Requirements Advanced Services High-resolution information production (data processing) - Downscaling of climate/observation/forecast/projection data - GIS-based micrometeorological downscaling technology NWP-based Forecast services (AgMet forecasting) - Linking NWP outputs to AgModels for value-added forecasts - Short-, medium-, long-range, sub-seasonal to seasonal, CC scenario - Various AgModels : DSSAT, AMBER, etc. ICT resource sharing platform (ICT infrastructure) - Computing resources for NWP/AgModel with GIS/RS technology - User communication interface as information provider and feedback

21. Advanced service based on ICT sharing

22. ICT Resource Sharing Platform Region-specific Service Platforms – Currently 3 to at least 6 servers with differentiated functions Computing resources for – NWPs operation on user domain on time – NWP output downscaling to high spatial resolutions – User-specific AgModel operation on time – GIS S/W operation – RS data processing – Derived products processing Large volume of data storage for – NWP and AgModel outputs – RS/GIS raw and processed data – Ground truth data (vegetation, weather, soil)

23. Summary of GFCS Implementation by CAgM 1. WAMIS Next Phase - WAMIS mirrors in each RAs - WAMIS implementation : contents, tools, resources, infrastructure, interface, service - new Governance : collaboration/operation, feedbacks, resource sharing, - NCAM 2. Regional Pilot Projects - Identification of existing/candidate projects (1-3 per RA) - Collaborating mechanisms with RAs/TCs 3. Global Federation of AgMet Society (INSAM next phase) - Regional federations (existing/potential) - Governing mechanism including joint society meetings with CAgM session 4. Education/Training/Outreach : Global CoE - NCAM - Strengthening current system - Accommodation of emerging user requirements - Collaborations among centers now/future (center of excellency in AgMet) 5. Global Monitoring Networks : crop, phenology, drought, etc. - Collaboration with global efforts : GEOSS AG-0702 (crop monitoring/risk management) - Joint networks : ISBM/CBD (tree/bird/insect/germs/coral phenolgy) - Integration of existing/potential domestic/regional networks : WAOB (crop status) 6. Collaborations with relevant international programs/institutions - INFITA/WCCA : Informatics in Agriculture - FluxNet : GHG/Energy flux monitoring, Caron tracker, LDAS - Geant/Tein2/APAN/Gloriad : high performance networks

24. (Joint)GISC SIMDAT GISC UNIDAT Data Broker GDS LAS GTS/WIS GEOSS DCPC NCARNCDCTIGGE WAMIS Climate Projection SIP GDAPS / GME RDAPS / GME : WRF Mesoscale model Nowcasting Historical (Legacy) data Non-Meteorological Data Surface Flux Vegetation Soil Profile GRID Computing Data Access Computation Research KMA/KISTI WAMIS Grid Portal AMBERDSSAT GIS RS User Interface GridSphere LDAS/LIS Flux, GHG Data Grid MME AppliedMeteorology Pilot Projects SIMDATWAMISUNIDAT.... WMO Integrated GOS WMO Information System Climate Service Schematics of CAgM

25. Global Center of Excellency in AgroMet Global Federation of AgM Society Regional AgMet Pilot Projects Global AgMet OutLook System GraduateExpert Research Scientist Policy- Maker ManagerLecturer CAgM Implementation Components for GFCS

26. RS/GIS ICT WIS Applications Models GFCSPrimaryUser(TC/CAgM) Global Federation of AgMet Society Regional Pilot Projects (1~3/RA) AgModel, IT Resource, Tools, Storage, DBMS, Server, Interface Regional Associations (operation) CAgM GFCSSecondaryUser(RA/NMHS) Feedback Feedback (Ground Truth Information) (Land Surface Information) Regional Federation (R & D) GFCS End User (Farming Community) Partnerships among TCs/RAs

27. End-User + Service Provider = uSERvicer You Servicer! USER=SERVICER Thank for Your Attention!