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1 World Meteorological Organization Working together in weather, climate and water Improving WMO operational climate monitoring in support of the GFCS OMAR BADDOUR WMO WMO

2 WMO WMO OMM Operational Climate Monitoring Data Sources Surface & Ocean in situ observing networks Upper-air networks Surface remote sensing (Radar) networks Airborne and observations Satellite constellations

3 Global Climate Data Sets The development of climate datasets is based on the following: Routinely disseminated daily and monthly weather and climate observations by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of the 189 WMO Members following the WMO standards for data collection, quality control and exchange; Historical climate records dating back to 1850, including those available from marine climate summaries; Recovered old climate records worldwide as part of continuous data rescue efforts promoted by WMO and its Members; Data from specialized centres such as in Tropical cyclones, snow and ice, ozone, green house gazes, Peer reviewed scientific methods for quality control, homogenization and interpolation to constitute high quality global climate datasets.

4 Global Surface Temperature data sets There are three centres that maintain global surface temperature datasets and calculate global average temperature and related anomalies at monthly and annual timescales: Met Office, UK, in collaboration with the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom); National Climatic Data Center, which is part of NOAA (United States); Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which is part of NASA (United States).

5 WMO WMO OMM OMM WMO Annual Statement on the status of the Global Climate. An authoritative voice on the state of the climate Contributions from countries and international Programmes Highlights the annual Surface Temperature Globally and regionally Describes major extreme weather and climate events in the year Published in 6 languages

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7 Addressing Data Challenges Congress Resolution on Climate Data Requirements For Improving WMO climate monitoring in support of the GFCS Congress XVI in June 2011 decided to prioritise Members actions on climate data as part of the World Climate Programme and to meet the evolving and new requirements of the GFCS 7

8 Accelerating Data Rescue Activities The Report of the GFCS highlighted DARE as a critical component of the developement of local climate services. 1) Undertake DARE worldwide and mobilize experts and resources to accelerate DARE in the countries in need 2) Support Disaster Risk Reduction Programme in the various regions 1) Link DARE with Climate System Monitoring and Climate applications e.g. Development of useful information for decision making for climate change adaptation Climate change indices 8

9 Climate Data Management and Exchange 1) Fostering the use of modern Systems for Climate data management to ensure modern archiving systems and data services 2) Promote friendly tools to generate Climate Data products, such as for generating CLIMAT messages and new National Climate Monitoring data products based on climate indices, Grided data, Monthly Data Records, Climate Normals, etc.. 3) Producing and compiling World Weather Records and WMO climate normals based on improved methodologies and guidelines to the Members for their computation and dissemination 9

10 Tools for Data Quality and Homogeneity

11 Data / Metadata collaboration initiatives Promote international, regional and subregional collaborative initiatives on Data Rescue, Metadata and data homogenisation, MEDARE ACRE ECA&D WADARE (in planning) 11

12 Analysis of Climate extremes WMO OMM Climate indices describe particular characteristics of extremes, including frequency, amplitude and persistence. A core set of 27 extremes indices for temperature and precipitation were developed by climate scientists (ETCCDI) The concept involves calculation of the number of days in a year (or a season) exceeding specific thresholds.

13 Heat Wave 2003: A natural disaster WMO WMO OMM Date Killed (no. of people) 1000 y 100 y 10 y mean 10 y 100 y 1000 y Italy France Spain ,089 19,490 15,090 Germany ,355 Portugal ,696 India ,541 France ,388 United States ,260 India ,210 Belgium ,175 WSD, Geneva 20 October 2010

14 CONCLUSION New ERA in doing operational climate Monitoring has started -> the GFCS - CSIS will be the operational Structure at global regional and national levels, NMHSs will play a forefront role in service delivery at national level - Need to address Gaps in Observations to support the generation of climate monitoring products for CSIS at regional and national level - Make progress in the use of satellite data and products for improving operational Climate Monitoring and Climate Watches - CG-XVI RES on Climate Data. Needs urgent attention for meeting the GFCS requirements: DARE, digitisation, Modern Archiving, Exchange and methods and tools for improved Analysis and applications, - Provision of Climate Watches to support local climate services at national level - Urgent need for Regional and International collabration to meet these challenges 14

15 World Meteorological Organization Working together in weather, climate and water Thank you Merci Спасибо Gracias شكرا 谢谢 WMO