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EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP Haleh Kootval Chief, Public Weather Services WMO Montreal, Canada, 1-2 May 2012

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EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP. Haleh Kootval Chief, Public Weather Services WMO Montreal, Canada, 1-2 May 2012. WMO’s Global Operational Network. Global Observing System. Global Telecommunication System. Global Data Processing And Forecasting System: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP

EMERGENCY ALERTING POLICY WORKSHOP

Haleh KootvalChief, Public Weather Services

WMO

Montreal, Canada, 1-2 May 2012

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WMO’s Global Operational Network

NMHSs have the crucial alerting function and deliver information and warning services

Global Data Processing And Forecasting System:

3 World Meteorological Centres

40 Regional Specialized Centers

Global Observing System

Global Telecommunication System

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PWS DisseminationWeather Hazards

floods, fire, drought, strong winds, heavy snow etc

Services by NMHSs

Weather Forecasts, watches, alerts, Warnings

Dissemination Methods

Websites, TV, Radio, Telephone, RANET

Examples of Groups served by NMHSs

General Public, isolated communities, Government and civil defence authorities etc.

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Public Alerting • The 189 WMO Members have crucial

public alerting functions, often based in NMHSs

• WMO infrastructures for observations, analysis, forecasting, and communications can support global implementation of the CAP standard

• WMO supports all-media, all-hazards public alerting worldwide

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History of WMO and CAP

• WMO Congress in 2007 requested SG to “improve the exchange of high priority data and products in support of a virtual all-hazards network”

• EC-LX in 2008 requested CBS to follow up on CAP implementation as a matter of urgency

• EC-LXI in 2009 requested Secretariat and invited all Members and RAs to work towards implementing CAP

• PWS and WIS collaboration • SG letters to PRs • Three workshops held in WMO

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• Developed for WMO PWS• Members identify their officially recognized alerting

authorities for all types of hazards• Register has categories of alert messages, plus

URL's for forecasts and CAP messages • Aggregators of alert messages and others can

subscribe to a news feed to stay current with any changes to the register

• http://www-db.wmo.int/alerting/authorities.html

The WMO Register of Alerting Authorities

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Register of Alerting Authorities

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WMO and CAP

• Hydrology: Flood forecasting and warning

• Tropical Cyclones

• Severe Weather Information Centre

• SWFDP

• Meteoalarm

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Use of CAP for flood forecasting

• Link providers and users• Bridge between hydrologists and disaster

managers• Hydrological and meteological alerts

disseminated at once• Messages quantify the level of risk

• Not yet widely adopted (national standards prevail)

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Meteoalarm

• Provides a European alert information on line for weather parameters

• Harmonized as far as possible

• Source: NMHSs

• Users: European locals, traveling public

• CAP in Meteoalarm?

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Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik

MeteoAlarm operational maps for today + tomorrow

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Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP)WMO

Improve Severe Weather Forecasting and warnings lead timeImprove interaction of NMHSs with users, including media, disaster

management and civil protection authorities, and other user communities (e.g. agriculture, fisheries, etc.)

Overall improvement in Service Delivery

Two components: Forecasting and PWS

SWFDP Regional Subprojects Southern Africa South Pacific Islands Southeast Asia Eastern Africa Bay of Bengal Several other regions being considered (Central Asia)

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SWFDP Cascading Forecasting Process

Global NWP centres provide available NWP and EPS products cut to the project window frame;

Regional centres interpret information received from global NWP centres, prepare daily guidance products (out to day-5) for NMCs, run limited-area model to refine products, maintain RSMC Web site, liaise with the participating NMCs;

National Met Centres maintain responsibility/authority over national warning services, issue alerts, warnings, liaise with various users

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Global Centers Disaster Management

Centres

NMCsRSMC Pretoria

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SWFDP and CAP

SMS; Weather RadioSystems; Public Web; etc.

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E-mail; etc. Radio; TV

•Within the framework and activities of SWFDP, CAP fits in the PWS "dissemination" part

Should become CAP-enabled

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Tropical Cyclones Example

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SWIC: an international TC

Warning Tool

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Tropical Cyclones and CAP

• Two TC bodies (Typhoon Committee and Panel on Tropical Cyclones) have considered CAP a potentially useful way of disseminating warnings to the public and other users.

• RSMC/TCWCs may consider the possibility of delivering TC advisories in CAP format as well

• Overall support but not implemented

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Conclusions

Operations• WMO has promoted CAP• WMO systems can carry CAP messages• Very little uptake in the hydrological

community• At regional level limited uptake: Still not fully

appreciated • Adoption on individual country basis• Promotion needs to be more focused and

target specific communities or programme areas

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Conclusions

Policy• WMO created the Register of Alerting Authorities to

support CAP “ authoritative” sources of warning• Several editors have been registered • Few have edited their country templates as Alerting

Authorities: this needs to be improved • Register essential to safeguard the authoritative

sources of warnings• WMO Members to refer to their membership in the

Register when asserting their authority for issuing national warnings

• Response to the policy questions may help convince others to implement CAP and participate in the Register

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Thank you

Haleh Kootval [email protected]