Transcript WMO Polar and High Mountain Activities

WMO Polar and High Mountain
Activities
Jeff Key, NOAA/NESDIS, United States,
Rodica Nitu and Lars Peter Riishojgaard
World Meteorological Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
GEOCRI Side Event, GEO Plenary
Saint Petersburg, 8 Nov 2016
WMO and GEO
WMO EC-68 (Executive Council, 2016), Partnerships agenda
Decision 12(6)/1 on WMO-GEO key collaboration areas:
Endorsed the ten key WMO-GEO collaboration areas:
#6. Cryosphere activities, as exemplified by GEO Cold Region
Activities and the WMO Polar and High Mountain Regions
activities, including the Global Cryosphere Watch, Year of Polar
Prediction, etc.
WMO Activities in Polar and High Mountain
Regions: one of the seven key priorities of
WMO, Strategic Plan 2016-2019
WMO Executive Council Panel of Experts on Polar and
High Mountain Observations, Research, and Services
(EC-PHORS)
• Framework to enable the provision of services to users and governments:
– Integrated approaches to understanding the global impact of changes in Polar
Regions (from research to operations) e.g. WMO is member of the SAON Board
(Arctic Council)
– Coordinated programmes of meteorological observations in the Antarctic: WMO an
observer with the Antarctic Treaty and SCAR;
– Contributing to high mountain regions’ hydrometeorological and cryospheric
observing systems and services;
EC-PHORS: Framework
 Collaboration/Engagement essential to advancing the agenda in Polar Regions:
 WMO & co-sponsored Programmes (e.g. WWW, WIS/WIGOS, WCRP, GCOS)
 Intergovernmental Organizations (e.g. UNESCO/IOC, Arctic Council, ATCM, GEO); WMO seeking
Observer status with the Arctic Council
 Coordinating bodies (e.g. IAATO, COMNAP, FARO, AMOMWF, SOOS, etc.)
 Scientific Bodies (e.g. SCAR, IASC, IPA, APECS, IASSA)
 International Initiatives (e.g. GFCS, GEOSS, SAON, Arctic-HYDRA /HYCOS)
 Observations Framework.
 Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW) –
 including the 3rd Pole region (Tibetan Plateau Himalaya-Karakorum-Pamir);
 Polar Space Task Group (PSTG);
 Antarctic Observing Network (AntON).
 Research Framework : advance the understanding of processes driving polar and high
mountain weather and climate: the Global Integrated Polar Prediction System (GIPPS)
 Services Framework : improved climate services across the Arctic Polar Regions
 Polar Regional Climate Centers (PRCC)
 Polar Regional Climate Outlook Forums (PRCOF)
Global Cryosphere Watch
CryoNet 2016
Immediate priority: CryoNet. A standardized
cryosphere observing network, building on
existing programmes.
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all components of the cryosphere (glaciers, ice
shelves, ice sheets, snow, permafrost, sea ice,
river/lake ice)
A component of WIGOS: WMO Integrated Global
Observing System
Operated based on internationally accepted best
practices, compiled by GCW.
GCW Data Portal: gateway to all CryoNet data
GCW Glossary, WIGOS data framework: ensure the
consistency of CryoNet data.
http://globalcryospherewatch.org
PROMICE Greenland
TANGGULA China
TIKSI Russia
GCW High Mountain Region focus:
GCW CryoNet Asia, CryoNet Africa, CryoNet Latin America:
addressing regional needs for improved cryosphere monitoring at high
elevation
SOURCE: Arendt, A.A.,
et al., 2014. Randolph
Glacier Inventory – A
Dataset of Global
Glacier Outlines:
Version 4.0.
GLIMS Technical
Report, National Snow
and Ice Data Center,
Boulder, USA. Digital
Mediwww.glims.org/RG
I/00_rgi40_TechnicalN
ote.pdf
Polar Space Task Group (PSTG)
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established in 2011 under auspices of WMO EC
PHORS
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members of 13 Space Agencies
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realisation of benefits from the growing constellation
of polar-orbiting satellites by mobilising the
complementary capabilities of participating Agencies
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GEOCRI IP Task relevant to PSTG
Credit: Rignot, E. and J. Mouginot (2012)
Supporting Sea
Ice Services
Combined result using RADARSAT-1 (CSA), ALOS
PALSAR (JAXA), and Envisat ASAR (ESA) InSAR
data – with processing funded by NASA
Data gaps and model deficits
cause poor forecasts in polar
Uncertainty of near-surfaceregions
temperature initial conditions (K)
 Major decadal initiative, coordinated effort, research and operational :
• Earth System approach, hours / seasonal / decadal timescales
• a contribution to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
• Partnerships: AMPS, AMOMWF, SCAR, IASC, ICPM, WMO Global Producing
Centres (e.g. ECMWF, NCEP)
 WWRP Polar Prediction Project (PPP):
• Promote cooperative international research enabling development of improved
weather and environmental prediction on scales hourly to seasonal
– Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) 2017-2019
 WCRP Polar Climate Predictability Initiative (PCPI)
• Identify chains of processes that may lead to predictable skill for seasonal to
multi-decadal time scales,
Hamill, pers. comm.
Global Integrated Polar
Prediction System
(GIPPS)
Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP)
Polar Regional Climate Centres (PRCC)
RCC-Networks for the Arctic and the Third Pole, with the key
functions distributed over a network of host entities (Nodes)
Nov 7-9, 2016, Geneva: Arctic PRCC Network Planning Meeting;
• To facilitate the development of a technical implementation plan:
– Identify an initial set of Arctic PRCC demonstration phase products and
services, with the priority on the mandatory functions;
– Agree on structure for the Arctic PRCC-Network (Node configuration,
contributing entities, coordination, governance);
– next steps towards implementation.
• To plan a 2017 demonstration phase of an Arctic PRCC Network.
Northern Europe and
Greenland Node
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, The
Netherlands, Norway, Sweden UK
Eurasia Node
Russian Federation
North America Node
Canada and USA (potentially led by Canada)
WMO and GEO
WMO EC-68 (Executive Council, 2016), Partnerships agenda
Decision 12(6)/1 on WMO-GEO key collaboration areas:
Endorsed the ten key WMO-GEO collaboration areas:
#6. Cryosphere activities, as exemplified by GEO Cold Region
Activities and the WMO Polar and High Mountain Regions
activities, including the Global Cryosphere Watch, Year of Polar
Prediction, etc.
WMO Activities in Polar and High Mountain
Regions: one of the seven key priorities of
WMO, Strategic Plan 2016-2019