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3.1 Feedback from PTC-2014 meeting

CAS MG meeting WMO Geneva 23-25 April 2014

Øystein HovNorwegian Meteorological Institute

WMO; Name of Department (ND)

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Research is cutting across all commissions

Basic data from:ObservationsExperimentsProcess description

Core

Services

Core

Services

Downstream

Services

Downstream

Services

specializedoperationalusers

Other branches of researchor innovation

Output from othersciencedisciplinesor servicesIA, socio-economics

Core information

Model calculationsintegrating basic data

and process knowledge

User customizedinformation

(user products)

Input information

Moving basic science to application

R&D

The public

data policy

publications services

«Dependence is the key to independence»

Six broad themes for the next decade and beyond:

• High-impact weather and its socio-economic effects• Water: improved disaster risk reduction and resource

management• Integrated greenhouse gas information system• Aerosols: Impacts on air quality, weather and climate• Urbanization: Research and services for megacities• Evolving technologies: Their impact on science and

its use

R&D as a cross-cutting activity

CAS needs to interact closely with •Other technical commissions•Regional associations•Other cross-cutting structures

– EC-PORS– GFCS– WIGOS

CAS-16 and TECO outcomes: The CAS contributions

….as a practical, bottom-up,

multi-commission FDP/RDP is proposed.

Over the past year, CAS has strengthened its cooperation with CHy and continued to actively engage with CBS and CIMO on WIGOS and its structures, WIS and Data Processing and Forecasting System (DPFS)….

CIMO CHyDPFS

CBS

WIGOS

WISCAS

CHAMP – RDP/FDPAn inter-commission project proposal

(submitted by Canada as a North-American Initiative)

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Context and motivations of RDP/FDPThe Great Lakes and St-Lawrence River:

• make up the largest surface freshwater system on the planet connected with the world’s largest estuary;

• meet the diverse needs of an estimated 105.3 million people in Canada and the United States;

• are a transboundary water resource, co-managed between both Canada and the US;

• are a major feature with significant regional influence on synoptic weather systems, and local climate and weather via lake/river feedbacks to the atmosphere;

• and, a critical component of the freshwater system and hydrological cycle of the eastern half of North America.

• On the science side, the increasing convergence in both atmospheric and hydrological sciences in the application of coupled atmospheric-hydrological modelling systems have led Canada and the United-States to collaborate on establishing such a capacity.

Coupled Hydrology-Atmospheric Modelling and Prediction in the Laurentian Great-Lakes-St

Lawrence River of North AmericaCHAMP

Given the existing Canada-United-States collaboration, the natural test-bed that is the Great-Lakes-St Lawrence river and the advances in coupled atmosphere hydrology-atmosphere prediction, and the cross-commission expertise and impacts, the CHAMP project is proposed as a CAS-CHy-CBS inter-commission research and forecasting demonstration project to: demonstrate the capacity for improvement to weather and hydrological forecasts of a coupled atmospheric-lake-ice-waves-hydrological numerical prediction system; demonstrate that such environmental prediction systems have direct applications to the forecast and management of water levels and discharges in the Great-Lakes–St Lawrence system and ecosystem management; and develop and evaluate specialized forecasting products and information packages to allow the community of users to take advantage of new knowledge to assist decision-making on time-scales ranging from real-time nowcacsting (for weather and hydrological forecasting) to monthly and up to annual (for the surface water system).

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Feedback from PTC-2014 meeting

Research cuts across all Commissions Functions of TCs

Lack of quorum issue More structured approach to service delivery DRR as a WMO priority Impact-based and risk-based forecasting Strengthening of operational centres – lessons learnt

from SWFDP International Cloud Atlas Collaboration with ISO WMO SP 2016-2019

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- continued WIGOS - WMO Technical Regulation Challenges in Aviation Meteorology GFCS implementation

CCl Global Data Management Framework for Climate Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices Expert Team on Regional Climate Centres Global Seasonal Climate Update GSCU CCl-CAgM-Chy Joint Expert Group on Climate, Food and

Water Climate Services Information System (CSIS) pillar of

GFCS

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