1. Page 1© Crown copyright 2004 Quality Management of a European Wind Profiler Network (CWINDE) Tim Oakley TECO-05 Bucharest, 4 th -7 th May

2. Page 2© Crown copyright 2004 Introduction  EUMETNET & WINPROF  CWINDE Hub Status  Products & Quality Monitoring  Challenges for the Future

3. Page 3© Crown copyright 2004 What is EUMETNET? EUMETNET is a network grouping 18 National Met. Services. Provides a framework to organise co- operative programmes. Members aim to develop their collective capabilities to serve environment management & climate monitoring. Bring to all European users the best available quality of meteorological information. Make more efficient the management of their collective resources

4. Page 4© Crown copyright 2004 Observations Programmes  EUCOS  E-ASAP  AWS  SWS  OBS-INFO  Protection of Radio Frequency  E-AMDAR  SURFMAR  PWS  OPERA  RADIOSONDE  WINPROF

5. Page 5© Crown copyright 2004 WINPROF main objectives  2 year EUMETNET Project - started 1/7/2002  Harmonise and improve the existing exchange of all wind profiler (from National Met Services and Universities) and Weather radar profiler data in Europe.  Run and further develop a network hub for data processing and quality evaluation.  Integrate new wind profiler systems.

6. Page 6© Crown copyright 2004 WINPROF main objectives  Establish appropriate quality control procedures.  Define general quality standards and user requirement for operational use.  Work on improved processing algorithms to improve data quality/availability.  Provide expert support to members for wind profiler installations.

7. Page 7© Crown copyright 2004 Current/Future Wind Profiler sites Red indicates that data is expected in the near future.

8. Page 8© Crown copyright 2004 Current/Future - Weather Radar Wind Sites Red indicates that data is expected in the near future.

9. Page 9© Crown copyright 2004 HOW THE DATA IS PROCESSED

10. Page 10© Crown copyright 2004 Data Frequency  VIA GTS(BUFR) - 3500 MESSAGES/DAY (32 SITES)  VIA GTS(ASCII) - 600 MESSAGES/DAY (13 SITES)  VIA FTP-OUT(ASCII) – 1200 MESSAGES/DAY (4 SITES)  VIA FTP-IN (BALTRAD) - 1750 MESSAGES/DAY (19 SITES)  VIA FTP-IN (ASCII) - 250 MESSAGES/DAY (6 SITES)  VIA FTP-IN (BUFR) - 24 MESSAGES/DAY (1 SITE)  VIA NETLINK (BUFR) - 50 MESSAGES/DAY (2 SITES)  VIA E-MAIL (ASCII) - 48 MESSAGES/DAY (1 SITE) – to be suspended soon.  TOTAL OF ~7,500 MESSAGES/DAY (~77 SITES)

11. Page 11© Crown copyright 2004 Wind profiler real-time data averages

12. Page 12© Crown copyright 2004 Weather radar winds real-time data averages

13. Page 13© Crown copyright 2004 Hub Requirements (Hub managed by UK Met Office)  Provision of wind data for NWP  Provision of displays for Forecasting & Monitoring  Feedback of Quality Monitoring to Operators  Maintain expertise in communication & coding (BUFR)  Maintain a data archive  Develop new products

14. Page 14© Crown copyright 2004 Wind Barbs Example – South Uist

15. Page 15© Crown copyright 2004 SNR Example – South Uist

16. Page 16© Crown copyright 2004 Wind Profiler v Weather Radar (VAD)

17. Page 17© Crown copyright 2004 Plan view Plots Now updated every 3hrs. No longer relies on model fields. Faster method of data extraction.

18. Page 18© Crown copyright 2004 Monitoring Statistics against NWP models.  Monthly monitoring against UK NWP.  Monthly statistics from Meteo France.  Offline ‘network’ statistics available from ECMWF.  Future – Statistics from DWD (Germany)

19. Page 19© Crown copyright 2004 UK Monthly Model Statistics

20. Page 20© Crown copyright 2004 UK Monthly Model Statistics

21. Page 21© Crown copyright 2004 Wind Profiler UK Model Assimilation

22. Page 22© Crown copyright 2004 Weather Radar Winds UK Model Assimilation

23. Page 23© Crown copyright 2004 ECMWF ( Aug04) – Wind Direction (All systems)

24. Page 24© Crown copyright 2004 ECMWF ( Aug04) – Wind Direction (Used systems)

25. Page 25© Crown copyright 2004 ECMWF ( Aug04) – Wind Speed (All systems)

26. Page 26© Crown copyright 2004 ECMWF ( Aug04) – Wind Speed (Used systems)

27. Page 27© Crown copyright 2004 ECMWF Aug04 - Networks Europe USA Japan

28. Page 28© Crown copyright 2004 CWINDE WEB SITE Hosted by UK Met Office. UK Model Assimilation Status added. New web address – www.metoffice.gov.uk

29. Page 29© Crown copyright 2004 Challenges for the future.  Maintain a network of diverse systems operated by different organisations.  WINPROF II (starts 01/05/05 – UK Programme manager).  By 2007 by ready to incorporate wind profilers as part of EUCOS. ( European Observing Systems)  Work to increase the number of wind profiler systems acceptable for data assimilation.  Develop the use of other products and high resolution data.  Technical support to the Galileo & 1290MHz wind profiler issue.  Possible expansion of network hub to include other systems. (Weather radar products, GPS Water Vapour)

30. Page 30© Crown copyright 2004 Questions & Answers