Climate Monitoring and Data Management

Omar BADDOUR (*)

&

Hama Kontongomde (*)

World Meteorological OrganizationGeneva, Switzerland

(*)Data Management Applications DivisionObserving and Information System DepartmentWorld Climate Data and Monitoring Program (WCDMP)World Climate Program

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OUTLINE

• Challenges

• New initiatives

• Update on Climate extremes, MEDARE and Climate Watch

• Recommendations

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Monitoring of Climate Variability and Changes

Trends, global and regional climate variability, and extreme climate events constitute an important driving force for an increased awareness of Climate Observations and Climate Data

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Challenges

• Climate Data availability, QC

• Changing Climate Observations Networks

• Data Rescue

• Back up of existing data

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New Initiatives• 2 Guidelines for Developing and Least

Developed countries (ET-ORSC, ETCCDI )

• CD-ROM material on Observations, Data, and related QC, Metadata and Homogeneity

• MEDARE Data Rescue in the Mediterranean

• CLIMSOFT-WIS demonstration project Historical Data Inventories and Metadata exchange through WIS

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GCOS Steering Committee meeting, Geneva 14-17 October 2008

Update on Climate Indices

• Workshop in Brazaville, Congo, April2007

• Workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam, December 2007

Congo Workshop, Brazzaville April 2007

Submitted to JGR, August 2008

Recent development in Climate extremes and Indices / ETCCDI

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Main outcomes 1. The workshop was a very good beginning for regional

cooperation in a climatologically important and understudied region of the planet.

2. Workshop attendees have generously made all the indices

calculate for these station time series available for the international research community at the ETCCDI’s Web site

http://cccma.seos.uvic.ca/ETCCDI

3. In a region with limited international exchange of data this is a significant advance

4. Opens up possibilities of many additional lines of research, such establishing links between climate and agricultural production or ecosystem responses.

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Review Article, BAMS September 2008

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Update on MEDARE

• Endorsed by EC-60

• Web Site was set up and a web Portal for Data Inventory is under construction

• Working Groups

• Steering group

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WMO Workshops on Climate Watch

• Help NMHSs to Implement Climate watch system to contribute in preventing climate related hazards – floods, windstorms,droughts, Heat waves, Landslides,etc

• Focus Period: 2008-2011

• First one in ECUADOR, 8-11 December 2008, WMO,CIIFEN, ESPOL (UV), NMHS in RA-III

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RECOMMENDATIONS III.1 See what CBS-GCOS lead centres could

do to further encourage all CLIMAT stations to report on regular monthly basis and possibly creation of more CLIMAT reporting stations

III.2 Linkage between some GCOS and WMO(WCP) regional activities

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