Transcript WIGOS and WIS

World Meteorological Organization
Working together in weather, climate and water
WMO
WIGOS and WIS
M. Berechree (WIGOS)
D. Thomas (WIS)
www.wmo.int
WIGOS and WIS
• WIGOS:
WMO Integrated Global Observing
System;
• WIS:
WMO Information System
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WMO Strategic Planning
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“Enhanced capabilities of Members to
access, develop, implement and use
integrated and interoperable surface-based
and space-based systems for weather,
climate and hydrological observations, as
well as related environmental observations,
based on world standards set by WMO and
partner organizations” (ER4);
The success of WIGOS and WIS will have a
major impact on all WMO Strategic Thrusts.
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Challenge for the future
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WMO Members’ requirement:
More extensive and advanced observations
and information to improve both service
quality and service delivery.
WIGOS and WIS:
Coordinated, comprehensive, and
sustainable systems that meet the
requirements of WMO Members and partner
organizations.
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Evolving User requirements
WIGOS and WIS will:
• Enable NMHSs to meet expanding national
mandates of achieving higher national
visibility with other environment related
agencies.
• WMO Members will be able to better respond
to natural hazards, improve weather, water,
climate and related environmental
monitoring, and adapt to climate change and
human-induced environmental impacts.
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WIGOS
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will provide timely, quality-assured, qualitycontrolled and well-documented long-term
observations;
Implementation of Quality Management
procedures will be required to enable
enhanced utilization of both existing and
emerging observational capabilities.
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WIGOS supported by WIS
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An integrated global observing system
(WIGOS), supported by an interoperable
information system (WIS) - essential to
realizing the socio-economic benefits to be
derived from a wide range of weather,
climate, water and related environmental
products and services.
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WIS for WIGOS
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WIGOS is crucially dependant upon effective
WIS support and services:
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collection & sharing of observational data and
products,
DAR services,
Standards for data management.
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WIGOS together with WIS
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Enable WMO Members to meet expanding national
mandates which are calling for increasing coordination
and integration to help them better respond to natural
hazards, improve weather, water, climate and related
environmental monitoring, and adapt to climate change
and other human-induced environmental impacts;
Enhance operational components of WMO Programmes,
especially in Developing and Least Developed Countries
and ensure essential WMO support for the observational
and information elements of the future GFCS;
Provide a basis for sound decision making and enhance
delivery of services to society in all WMO applications
areas.
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WIGOS and WIS
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The combination of both efforts would allow
for an integrated WMO end-to-end system
designed to improve Members’ capability to
effectively provide a wide range of high
quality services and to better respond to all
WMO Programmes requirements.
The end result will be better prediction and
services that provide the required information
for the public and for policy and decision
makers.
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What is WIS
• A set of
– Networks including
• private and public
internet
• Sat and Radio
• Broadcast & two way
– Information mgt practices
– Agreed set if Standards
• Allows WMO to collect,
distribute data and products
• Global analyses & forecasts
several times daily
• Distributes of the order of 4
GB daily on private
network, and ½ TB via
internet and satellite
• DAR open to public and
specialist users
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Historically; a Closed System
• Designed to facilitate the collection and sharing of
observations and products for World Weather Watch, WIS
started out as a private network known as the Global
Telecommunications System (GTS)
• Other programmes started to use internet and establish own
information systems
• No electronic Discovery Access and Retrieval (DAR)
• WIS brought these together through having a central
catalogue and standard metadata. (See next slide)
• WIS opened up the GTS and other WMO systems to
partners and other users.
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Search Request
marine warnings in area bounded by 40W to 10W and 45N to 70N
Search Results
User searches for
metadata then
retrieves
information from
data custodian
Information request to custodian
http://weather.gmdss.org/I.html
Retrieve information
Centre publishes
metadata to
GISC DAR
catalogue
Security/authentication/authorization
and even charging is managed by each
service provider
GISC – DAR service
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access service
Web address - http://gisc.dwd.de
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You can benefit from WIS
• You can
– Subscribe to relevant data and products
– Search for and retrieve new information
• We can help you better if we
– understand your business and decision processes
– Know what type of decision you need to make so we can point you to the
right type of input
– What quality and time frame of information at particular points. eg:
• Climate outlook for strategic planning
• Seasonal outlook for operational placement
• Current forecasts and observations for deployment and response.
• Greater long term benefits are possible if you incorporate the same
minimal standards.
– Can interface with search ISO23950
– Can understand and work with ISO19115 metadata
– Develop automated machine to machine decision support systems
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