WMO Climate Watch System WMO OMM Omar Baddour Chief World Climate Data and Monitoring WMO, Geneva [email protected] Weather warning systems provide alerts on extreme weather occurring locally.
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WMO Climate Watch System
Omar Baddour
Chief World Climate Data and Monitoring WMO, Geneva [email protected]
Weather warning systems provide alerts on extreme weather occurring locally with a lead time of several hours to a week A natural evolution of meteorological alerts is to expand the time scale of the alerts to include information on climate conditions which can be expressed in terms of the departure from average climate conditions of the week, month or a season
(called climate anomalies)
and also to provide information on their persistence and evolution with time. Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011
Rational
Climate anomalies can occur over large geographical scale with a long lasting lifetime from a week to a season. This map shows a list of such extremes which occurred during 2009. Such extreme conditions can bring heavy and extended precipitations or extended episodes of deficits, heat waves, cold waves, etc. all having serious potential negative impacts on sectors
A climate Watch system including alerts
is therefore such system that enables providing
climate advisories
on the geographical extent, time frame and the magnitude and evolution of these anomalies To enable improved Climate Risk Management 2 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011
Heat Wave 2003: A natural disaster
Italy France Spain Germany Portugal India France United States India Belgium
Date Killed (no. of people)
2003 2003 2003 2003 2003 1998 2006 20,089 19,490 15,090 9,355 2,696 2,541 1,388 1980 2003 2003 1,260 1,210 1,175 3 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011
Cold wave 2009-2010
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WMO OMM Impacts of climate extremes 1980-2008 Impacts Average number of people affected per year Average number of people killed by year Average economic damage per year (10 6 US$) Heat wave 159,118 3,100 758 Cold wave 6,875,103 400 203
Source : http://www.preventionweb.net
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• Purpose • Elements • Outputs
Concept of CWS
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Purpose
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To monitor
climate anomalies and related extremes -
To produce and disseminate
climate advisories (climate alert bulletins) on significant ongoing or foreseen climate anomalies -
To heighten awareness
among relevant users to initiate preparedness measures -
To interact with the users
Alert episode prior, during and after the 7 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011
Elements
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Data& Climate Monitoring Observations & Analysis Long-range Forecast Forming the climate watch
Criteria Content & Format Dissemination
Strong partnership and feedback
Users community
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Template of a climate advisory / Alert WMO OMM
The heading Issuing organization Name of warning, Area affected, Date and time issued, Period of validity Text Climate situation Information on update advice, NMS contact details List of attachments 9 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011
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Implementation
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Three founding principles
Global and Regional institutions ; e.g GPCs and RCCs provide inputs to CWS in terms of global and regional products/guidance; Met Services deliver outputs to the national users (advisories); - Interactions with the users is an essential element( for the planning and operational levels)
Need to bring a common understanding of these principles and promote a quick implementation in the regions:
Regional workshops as a mechanism for enabling countries implement CWS 10 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 April 2011
WMO OMM 4 workshops: 2008-2011 2010 2009 2008
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Global Framework for Climate Services
Government Transport Energy Agriculture Water Health Health Sectoral Users Users User Interface User Programme Interface Programme Ecosystem Tourism Private sector System Monitoring Modeling and Prediction Research & Modeling and Prediction
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THANK YOU
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