Transcript Haleh Kootval

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:
3 World Meteorological
Centres
40 Regional Specialized
Centers
NMHSs have the
crucial alerting
function and deliver
information and
warning services
PWS Dissemination
Weather 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.
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
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
The WMO
Register of Alerting Authorities
• 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://wwwdb.wmo.int/alerting/authorities.html
Register of Alerting Authorities
WMO and CAP
• Hydrology: Flood forecasting and
warning
• Tropical Cyclones
• Severe Weather Information Centre
• SWFDP
• Meteoalarm
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)
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?
MeteoAlarm operational maps for today + tomorrow
Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik
WMO
Severe Weather Forecasting
Demonstration Project (SWFDP)
 Improve Severe Weather Forecasting and warnings lead time
 Improve 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)
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
Global Centers
13
RSMC Pretoria
NMCs
Disaster
Management
Centres
SWFDP and CAP
SMS; Weather Radio
Systems; Public Web; etc.
Radio; TV
Specific Communication
Systems
Disaster
Management
and Civil
Protection
E-mail; etc.
Media
•Within the framework
and activities of SWFDP, CAP
fits in the PWS "dissemination"
part
General Public
Public Weather Services
Should become CAP-enabled
Tropical Cyclones Example
SWIC: an international TC
Warning Tool
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
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
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
Thank you
Haleh Kootval
[email protected]