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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
Weather – Climate - Water
WMO Information System
(WIS)
Managing & Moving
Weather, Water and Climate Information
in the 21st Century
NMHS participation in DRR
coordination and early warning
26-27 Nov 2007
David Thomas (WIS)
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WWW – GOS, GDPFS & GTS
• GTS (data management & communications) has over the
years supported the collection and sharing of information
from GOS & GDPFS
– An exemplary case of long-term global collaboration in a world of vastly
different communication systems and standards.
– This historical info and critical real-time info feeds RI, RR & RT
• GTS also plays a major role in RR through daily monitoring
& forecasting the state of the environment
• GTS distributes warnings
Governance and
Organizational Coordination
– Globally within 2 minutes
• GTS is a closed network
Risk Identification
Historical hazard data
and analysis
WWW - World Weather Watch
Changing hazard trends
GTS – Global Telecommunication System
GOS – Global Observing System
Risk Reduction
Sectoral planning
Early Warning Systems
Vulnerability assessment
Emergency preparedness
planning
Risk quantification
Education and training
Risk Transfer
Cat Insurance and
Bond Markets
Weather Derivatives
GDPFS – Global Data Processing and Forecast System
RI – Risk Identification
RR – Risk Reduction
RT – Risk Transfer
Knowledge Sharing
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WMO Information System (WIS)
• GTS serves much of WMO but not all
• Many WMO activities have made use of the
internet & bilateral agreements
• These are outside the data management of the
WWW/GTS
– It is like having a library where not all books are catalogued
• WIS incorporates all WMO information systems
• WIS includes a central catalogue listing all WMO
information available & how to get it.
– WIS does for WMO what online catalogues have done for libraries.
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Current situation: GTS
Not Shown
RTH – Regional Telecommunication Hub
WMC – World Meteorological Centre
NMC – National Meteorological Centre
RSMC – Regional Specialist Meteorological Centre
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GISC – Global Information System Centre
WIS
DCPC – Data Collection or Production Centre
NC – National Centre
World Radiation Centre
International Organizations
(IAEA, CTBTO, UNEP, FAO.. )
Regional Instrument
Centres
IRI, Hadley Centre, and
other climate research
centres; Universities;
Regional Climate Centres
(CIIFEN, etc.)
GAW World Data Centres
GCOS Data Centres
Global Run-off Data Centre
DCPC
NC
NC
Global Precip. Climatology
Centre
NC/
DCPC
NC/
DCPC
Commercial
Service Providers
NC
NC
GISC
NC
GISC
GISC
International
Projects
(e.g. GMES
HALO)
NC
DCPC
NC
DCPC
GISC
GISC
Satellite
Two-Way Systems
Satellite
Dissemination
(IGDDS, RETIM,
etc)
NC
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WMO World
Data Centres
NC
NC
Real-time “push”
On-demand “pull”
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Structure of WIS
• National Centres (NC)
– Links national data providers and users to regional and global data exchange
nodes, and administrates access to WIS
• Data Collection or Production Centres (DCPC)
– Provides for regional and international exchange of WMO programmes’ data
and products
– Supports data and information push and pull
• Global Information System Centres (GISC)
– Provides for global exchange of data and products
– Collects and provides metadata for all data and products
– Supports data and information discovery and pull
• Data communication networks (including the internet)
• For more information on WIS see
http://www.wmo.int/pages/themes/wis/index_en.html
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So what will WIS do for DRR?
• Ensure continued improvements in the GTS
• Provide central metadata catalogues listing all
available WMO data and products and how to get
them.
• Allow non WMO centres to become DCPCs within
WIS.
• Open WIS catalogues to the web.
• DRR workers will have
– better access to information to assist in RI, RR & RT,
– the ability to collect critical information necessary to monitor and
predict the state of the environment
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