Transcript Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs)

Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs) :
Status of implementation in developing countries
By:
 Albert Mhanda (Climate Change Office, Zimbabwe) &
 Denis Stuber (Meteo France, France).
With the contribution of:
 the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Christiana Lefebvre &
 the Agrhymet Regional Centre, Brahima Kone.
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CONTENT
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DEFINITIONS : INSTALLATION / IMPLEMENTATION
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CDMS AND CDMS DISTRIBUTION POLICIES
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ASSESSMENT OF CDMS STATUS in 2010
 ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs INSTALLATION
 TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs IMPLEMENTATION
CONCLUSION & COMMENTS
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Definition of " CDMS " :
 tool to acquire, store, monitor, preserve, control and manage data; Allows data access
and offers various products.
Definition of " CDMS installation " :
 hardware and software in place, CDMS system running;
 staff have been trained in its basic capabilities.
Definition of " CDMS implementation " :
 CDMS installed;
 "CDMS being used on a regular and operational basis for the processing of real data
observation to prepare a quality controlled data archive which is then being used to
produce output for users" .
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2010: AVAILABLE CDMSs
6 CDMSs are known to be used in developing countries, each of them having, at least, more
than 2 installations.
CDMS
License
Supplier
CLICOM
FREE
WMO, still used, but CLICOM is no longer maintained
CLIMSOFT
FREE
UK Met Office initiative & an African team of 3 persons
located in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Guinea
CLIWARE
LICENCE / FREE
Roshydromet of the Russian Federation
CLIDATA
LICENCE
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute & Ataco Ltd
CLISYS
LICENCE
Meteo France & Meteo France International
CLDB
LICENCE
MicroStep-MIS, private company from Slovakia
 Some CDMSs are under development e.g. the project of the BoM that is currently developing a
CDMS for the Pacific countries.
 Other National Meteorological Services (NMSs) or private companies could shortly propose
new CDMSs.
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FROM CLICOM TO NEW CDMSs…
2002 / …: installation/implementation of new CDMSs
Different distribution methods :
 Workshops,
 Voluntary Cooperation Programme of WMO (VCP) or bilateral cooperation,
 Regional projects,
 Commercial purchases.
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CDMS THROUGH WMO WORKSHOPS 1/2
 used for the CLIMSOFT system
 toward: 51 countries, 41 developing countries of which 25 least developed countries
 5 workshops:
•2005 Pacific region
•2006 Caribbean
•2006 Eastern and Southern Africa
•2007 Central Africa
•2007 South East Asia
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CDMS THROUGH WMO WORKSHOPS 2/2
Objective:
Train adequately each NMS representative (training the future trainers) in order to let him/her
implement the system when he/she gets back to his centre and trains the rest of the staff.
Advantages:
 Favour synergy between users, future collaboration and partnership;
 Ability to train in a short period of time several NMSs representatives;
 Economical process for the trainers resource.
Disavantages:
 Only 1 person of each NMS is trained;
 No time is devoted to the real installation location (the NMS premises);
 Difficult to assess the real implementation.
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CDMSs THROUGH WMO VCP OR BILATERAL COOPERATION
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 used for CLIDATA, CLISYS and CLIWARE CDMSs
 VCP: 4 countries, 3 developing countries of which 1 least developed country
 Bilateral cooperation: 5 developing countries of which 1 least developed country
Comments
 Few VCP operations (4 in 5 years) compared to the CLICOM period (86 in 8 years)
 During 1988-2007, VCP has supported 49% of the demand on CDMSs and climatological
activities. There is still a demand, 51%, through VCP that has not yet received an answer.
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CDMSs THROUGH REGIONAL PROJECT OR REGIONAL ORGANIZATION
 used for CLIDATA
 20 countries, 16 developing countries of which 11 least developed countries
 2 cases where CDMS installation and training was performed first in the Regional Centre to be
then spread out to NMSs included in the project or in the organization:
 Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) with a WMO project
funded by the government of Finland on " Preparedness to climate variability and global
change in small islands " that benefits 6 countries of the region;
 Agrhymet Regional Centre has selected CLIDATA and builds up a long term project for
CDMS implementation that concerned CILSS countries and also ECOWAS countries. A
total of 14 countries are already involved.
The advantage of a regional project is that follow-up of the
components of the project (resources, training, equipment,
software, etc.) are integrated and should ensure continuity
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CDMSs INSTALLATION THROUGH COMMERCIAL PURCHASES
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 used for CLDB, CLIDATA, CLISYS
 20 countries, 12 developing countries of which 2 least developed countries
Comment
 Costs could be prohibitive for some countries;
 Could answer the exact requirements and training needed by the NMS.
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CDMSs PER METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION: SUMMARY
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Number of new CDMSs installations per method of distribution
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 53% of the installations
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through Workshops
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 Few VCP
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ASSESSMENT IN 2010 OF NEW CDMSs INSTALLATIONS
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 Nearly 20% of developing countries with an unknown situation
 Potentially 35% of developing countries would have to migrate to a new CDMS (CLICOM + unknown situation)
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ASSESSMENT OF NEW CDMSs INSTALLATIONS PER WMO REGION
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 RA III, South America, has yet no
new CDMS installation. Among the
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 Central America, RA IV, has yet
no new CDMS installation. All
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 Except Indonesia, all new CDMSs for the South-West Pacific have
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TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs IMPLEMENTATION
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CLIMAT message : an indicator to assess the capability of NMSs to manage their data
CLIMAT messages are monthly messages of climatological data that should be sent by NMSs to
data centres and exchanged via the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) of the WMO and
could reflect the capacity of a NMS to:
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collect, on time, the data of its RBCN network;
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compute monthly and normals data;
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code CLIMAT message;
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transmit CLIMAT message.
The first three processes are part of CDMS functions.
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Method
To compare the evolution of developing countries in producing their CLIMAT messages before
and after receiving a new CDMS.
4 groups of NMSs defined, all considered as developing countries.
The objective was to compute the percentage of CLIMAT messages that has reached a WMO
Centre with a correct format considering 2 time periods : 2000-2002 and 2006-2008.
Group 1
9 NMSs
from Africa and Agrhymet
Group 3
15 NMSs
from Caribbean area
Group 2
12 NMSs
from Africa non Agrhymet
Group 4
9 NMSs
from Pacific Islands
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% of CLIMAT
message received
PERIOD 1
2000-2002
PERIOD 2
2006-2008
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Group 1:
Africa and Agrhymet
19.4%
23.6%
+4.2%
Group 2:
Africa not Agrhymet
2.4%
8.3%
+5.9%
Group 3:
Caribbean
13.5%
18.9%
+5.4%
Group 4:
Pacific
28.3%
13.2%
-15%
Total Average
15.9%
16.0%
+0.1%
 May not be an accurate indicator (no validation of the
indicator has been done);
 May be too soon to detect improvement, the integration of
new tools need time;
slight improvement with an
average of + 5.2%
Important drop
no significant improvement of the capacity of
NMSs to produce their CLIMAT message
 Still it indicates, as known, issue on elaboration of
CLIMAT messages.
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CONCLUSION
Developing countries are still in the process of implementation of new CDMSs:
 71 developing countries, 53% of the total of developing countries, are implementing a new
CDMS: CLIMSOFT, CLIDATA, CLISYS, CLDB or CLIWARE;
 21 developing countries are still using CLICOM and will have to migrate;
 And 62 developing countries, 47%, are likely to migrate one day to another CDMS (21
CLICOM, 15 home-made and 26 unknown).
The real implementation of new CDMSs still need to be evaluated:
If the number of CDMSs installations could be counted, CDMSs implementations that is to say
their “in-service” status and capacity to answer to the needs of NMSs is difficult to assess. The
attempt proposed here with the analysis of CLIMAT messages shows yet no significant
improvement of developing countries, with new CDMSs, in managing their climatological
data…
...But a questionnaire initiated by CCl, with its expected results in mid 2010, will give a better
vision on CDMSs status and determine problems and where there is need for more assistance.
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COMMENTS
CDMSs description
Key features, strengths and weaknesses of the different CDMSs have not been presented.
This work is currently undertaken by CCl and would be finalised for the next CCl intersessional period. Technical and functional CDMSs evaluation as the one made in 2002 by
WMO has been also recommended several time.
A long term strategy to establish for CLIMSOFT
29 % of all developing countries are assumed running CLIMSOFT. A major orientation has
therefore been taken with the CLIMSOFT solution. If this approach is pursued, and if the
software satisfies coming evaluations, the CLIMSOFT project would have to be
strengthened in order to avoid what happened to CLICOM when the maintenance and
development of the software came to an end.
Gathering CDMSs with common practices
Standardization of processing and statistical methods (Quality Control, Data Generation,
homogenisation, etc.) between CDMSs would facilitate future training and the overall
coherency of data management practices. It is also the need of CDMS developers to
receive precise requirements on data and metadata processes.
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Thank you for your attention
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