1. Omar Baddour Chief World Climate Data and Monitoring WMO, Geneva obaddour@wmo.int WMO Climate Watch System Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011 WMO OMM Weather warning systems provide alerts on extreme weather occurring locally with a lead time of several hours to a week A natural evolution of meteorological alerts is to expand the time scale of the alerts to include information on climate conditions which can be expressed in terms of the departure from average climate conditions of the week, month or a season (called climate anomalies) and also to provide information on their persistence and evolution with time.

2. 2 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011 Climate anomalies can occur over large geographical scale with a long lasting lifetime from a week to a season. This map shows a list of such extremes which occurred during 2009. Such extreme conditions can bring heavy and extended precipitations or extended episodes of deficits, heat waves, cold waves, etc. all having serious potential negative impacts on sectors A climate Watch system is therefore such system that enables providing climate advisories including alerts on the geographical extent, time frame and the magnitude and evolution of these anomalies  To enable improved Climate Risk Management Rational

3. 3 DateKilled(no. of people) Italy200320,089 France200319,490 Spain200315,090 Germany20039,355 Portugal20032,696 India19982,541 France20061,388 United States 19801,260 India20031,210 Belgium20031,175 Heat Wave 2003: A natural disaster Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

4. Cold wave 2009-2010 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

5. 5 Impacts of climate extremes 1980-2008 ImpactsHeat waveCold wave Average number of people affected per year159,1186,875,103 Average number of people killed by year3,100400 Average economic damage per year (10 6 US$)758203 Source : http://www.preventionweb.net WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

6. 6 Purpose Elements Outputs Concept of CWS WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011 WMO-TD-N0 1269

7. 7 - To monitor climate anomalies and related extremes - To produce and disseminate climate advisories (climate alert bulletins) on significant ongoing or foreseen climate anomalies - To heighten awareness among relevant users to initiate preparedness measures - To interact with the users prior, during and after the Alert episode Purpose WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

8. 8 Elements Operational Components Data& Climate MonitoringLong-range Observations& Analysis Forecast Criteria Content & Format Issuing Organization Dissemination Users community Strong partnership and feedback Forming the climate watch WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

9. 9 The heading Issuing organization Name of warning, Area affected, Date and time issued, Period of validity Text Climate situation Information on update advice, NMS contact details List of attachments Template of a climate advisory / Alert WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

10. 10 Three founding principles -Global and Regional institutions ; e.g GPCs and RCCs provide inputs to CWS in terms of global and regional products/guidance; -Met Services deliver outputs to the national users (advisories); - Interactions with the users is an essential element( for the planning and operational levels) Need to bring a common understanding of these principles and promote a quick implementation in the regions:  Regional workshops as a mechanism for enabling countries implement CWS Implementation WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

11. 11 4 workshops: 2008-2011 2008 2009 2010 WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

12. 12 Global Framework for Climate Services Research & Modeling and Prediction Health Agriculture Transport Tourism Water Energy Ecosystem SectoralUsers Climate Services Information System User Interface Programme Research & Modeling and Prediction Observations and Monitoring Health Agriculture Transport Tourism Water Energy Ecosystem Users Climate Services Information System User Interface Programme Government Private sector Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011

13. 13 THANK YOU WMO OMM Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011