OPACE 1 achievements 2014-18 and next steps

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William J. Wright Bureau of Meteorology 700 Collins St, Melbourne, Australia Lianchun Song, Director-General of National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration Beijing,China Co-Chairs OPACE 1 for Climate Data and Data Management,

Overview

During 2014-18, OPACE 1 concentrated on improving guidance and capabilities in relation to four main areas:

Data Rescue Climate data management systems (CDMS) Developing a framework for modernising climate data management

standards and practices Collaboration with GCOS and others to improve climate observing

capabilities

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Climate Data Rescue - Achievements

• Formal links established with other global data rescue initiatives ACRE and IEDRO

• I-DARE portal commissioned in 2015; hosted by KNMI. Provides information on current and needed global data rescue initiatives

• Various Data Rescue initiatives carried out • Updated Guidelines document on climate data rescue

published • A Resource Plan in support of international data rescue and

CDMS implementation/support was developed in 2017.

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www.idare-portal.org

Inventory of data to be rescued Ongoing or planned data rescue projects Guidelines and tools Importance and success stories Forum

Climate Data Management Systems - Achievements

• CDMS specifications (WMO No 1131) approved by Cg-17 as a WMO standard with additional work requested. Already used in two CDMS tenders

• Progress towards planning a generic OpenCDMS to reduce CDMS maintenance overhead in long-term

• Solid foundation established for upgrade of WMO No 1131, with development of User Stories and Conceptual Architecture well under way

Example of CDMS Conceptual Architecture diagram

‘An Observation’

CDMS (Cont'd)

• An ongoing need is to encode robust standards around, e.g. definition of climatological day; climatological standard normals; handling data gaps

• These standards to be

developed by………..

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High Quality Global Data Management Framework for Climate

• Part of overall initiative across all WMO programs to modernise data management

• Emphasises climate-relevant topics, in broader WMO context.

• Cross-domain team (IPET-

CDMP), co-chaired by CCl & CBS, launched in 2015

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The IPET-CDMP team

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HQ-GDMFC (Cont'd) - Achievements

• A number of guidelines documents have been updated, and have been, or

soon will be, published. These include guidelines on QC of surface climate data; homogenisation guidelines; Data Rescue Guidelines etc.

• A Manual on best practice in climate data management has been substantially drafted, and links to existing or new guidance documents;

• Topics include best-practice guidance on data management operations; standards, definitions and methodologies;

• A number of new climate-relevant Technical Regulations are being proposed, and will be drafted during this calendar year

• Close correspondence with CBS's Task Team on Information Management, including an assessment of high quality climate datasets.

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Observations-related • Rapporteurs group provided subject

matter experts to attend, contribute to, and learn from relevant observations-related meetings

• Strong relationship with GCOS. CCl experts attended annual GCOS AOPC meetings, and several joint CCl-GCOS task teams were established

• CoCoRaHs (voluntary rainfall network) expanded to Bahamas, and guidance document drafted by Henry Reges on establishing volunteer networks

• Collaboration on WIGOS Task Team –

Data Partnerships

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Looking ahead…..

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Strategic aspects - drivers

• Global and national agendas for carrying out robust climate assessments and monitoring (eg IPCC, UNFCC, National Adaptation Plans) require climate data to be of high quality, discoverable and freely exchanged

• Climate services require trusted, accessible and well-managed data to inform decision-making and underpin development projects (eg GFCS, DRR)

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Strategic aspects – implications for FA1 (Data) work program

• Maintain and strengthen relationships with other Commissions and bodies in the data space, to provide an integrated approach to data and data management issues

• Work in the Data and Data Management areas will move somewhat away from developing guidance material to actual implementation of projects to improve sustainable capability.

• CDMS and Data Rescue activities, including digitisation projects, will be more closely integrated - hence the idea of a single team.

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Improving CDMS capability • Complete and begin implementing a CDMS Implementation Strategy.

Metrics to include evidence of an improvement in CDMS capability in especially developing Member countries.

• Recommendations and collaboration on the development of a WMO reference open-source CDMS

• Aim to publish an update of WMO No 1131 • Maintain and update a pool of experts, and provide guidance to begin

implementing sustainable CDMS and Data Rescue projects

• Complete and disseminate a Communication Plan on CDMS

• Follow-up CDMS users survey , and develop and maintain a CDMS register to allow NMHSs to understand capabilities of various CDMS

Implementing Data Rescue projects • Provide guidance and oversight

to implementing the WMO Data Rescue initiative, including digitisation projects

• Maintain links with other Data Rescue initiatives, including Copernicus, ACRE, IEDRO

• Maintain I-DARE portal for monitoring and coordinating DARE activities

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Modernising data management • Finalise reference manual on HQ-GDMFC, and develop

relevant WMO technical regulations • Collaborate on developing a WMO-wide maturity

model for information management

• In collaboration with GCOS and others, develop and expand a catalogue of trusted, mature climate datasets

• Provide guidance and material for training modules and curricula on climate data

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Facilitating Data exchange

• Collaborate with CBS on technical requirements for registering and exchanging data, including introduction of Daily CLIMAT

• Promote mechanisms and incentives for improving

data-sharing under Res 60.

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Towards more climate-worthy Observations

• Collaborate with GCOS and WIGOS on developing criteria for sustainable reference observing networks

• Continue collaboration with GCOS and WIGOS on expanding Voluntary and non-NMHS observing networks

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Thank you Merci

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