Transcript WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION Weather – Climate - Water WMO Information System (WIS) Managing & Moving Weather, Water and Climate Information in the 21st Century CIMO December 2006 World Meteorological.

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
Weather – Climate - Water
WMO Information System
(WIS)
Managing & Moving
Weather, Water and Climate Information
in the 21st Century
CIMO
December 2006
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Overview
• What is the WMO Information System (WIS)?
– Why is it being developed?
– What services will it provide?
• What will the NMHS gain from WIS?
• What is the overall WIS plan?
• How far has its implementation progressed?
• What are the major challenges still to be met?
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WMO Information System
(WIS)
Direction from WMO Congress
(2003)
• Develop:
–
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Over-arching approach for solving data
management problems for all WMO and related
international programmes
A single, coordinated global infrastructure, the
WMO Information System (WIS) for the
collection and sharing of information
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Reasons for WIS
• Various WMO Programmes
developing information systems
independently
– Incompatibilities, inefficiencies, duplication of
effort and higher overall costs
• Continued systems development in
an uncoordinated manner would:
– Exacerbate these problems
– Increase difficulty in sharing information
between programmes
– Further isolate WMO Programmes from each
other and from wider environmental
community
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Current situation: GTS
WWW GTS
Regional/Specialized
Meteorological Centres
Meteorological and R&D
Satellite Operator Centres
interconnects
National
Meteorological
Centres
World
Meteorological
Centres
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Current situation: GTS
For WWW
GTS provides:
• Information collection and distribution
o Real-time push for WWW data & products
(and some other programmes data)
• Information management
o Standard data formats
o Implicit metadata & catalogs
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Current situation:
GTS and Other WMO Programmes systems
• Information exchange
o Multiplicity of procedures
o Real-time and non-real-time
o Very limited pull
• Information management
o Multiplicity of data formats
o Uncoordinated/lack of metadata & catalogs
o No discovery
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WIS Vision
Integrated approach for all WMO Programmes
• Routine collection and dissemination of time-critical
and operation-critical data and products:
o Real-time “push” through dedicated telecommunication
• Data Discovery, Access and Retrieval service:
o “Pull” through the Internet (HTTP, FTP,…)
• Timely delivery of data and products:
o Delayed mode “push” through dedicated telecommunication
means and public data networks, especially the Internet
• Unified procedures
o More efficient data exchange
• Coordinated and standardized metadata
o Interoperability between programmes
o Improved data management
o ISO 191xxx series for geographic information
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Structure of WIS
Functional centres interconnected by data
communication networks:
• National Centres (NC)
– Links national data providers and users to regional and global data
exchange nodes, and administrates access to WIS
• Data Collection and 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
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WIS
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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WIS Data Policies
• Complies with WMO data policies
– Res. 40 (Cg-XII) and Res. 25 (Cg-XIII)
• Will follow evolution of WMO data policy
– Procedures for managing of access rights, control of
data retrieval, registration and identification of users,
etc can be defined, as and when required
– Anonymous downloading is technically possible, but
depends on whether a NC permits that feature
– Has no system-inherent features that would violate
international legal frameworks
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What will a NMHS gain from the WIS?
1.
Improved forecasting/warning services
•
2.
Faster and more cost-effective exchange of operationcritical information;
Improved and expanded range of services
•
Discovery and access to new data and products:
o
3.
Satellite data and products, ensemble prediction products,
climate predictions, oceanographic data and products,
operational, and research data and products, reports,
publications
Strengthened role as national service provider
•
Ability to “push” to national users critical information:
o
4.
Warnings, advisories, selected measurements, etc.; (eg:
national agencies dealing in disaster mitigation,
agriculture, energy and water management,)
Better appreciation by partner agencies
•
Supports their “pulling” relevant information from WMO
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WIS contribution to GEO
WMO
Weather
Domain
Climate
Domain
Water
Domain
WIS
Internet
GEONetCast
GTS
IGDDS
GEO
Health
Energy
Disasters
Weather
Climate
Ecosystems
Water
Agriculture
Biodiversity
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WIS implementation
• Phase A: GTS Evolution into WIS
– Provides consolidation/improvement for timecritical and operation-critical data
– Includes extension to meet operational
requirements of WMO programmes in addition to
World Weather Watch (including improved
management of services);
• Phase B: Migration to WIS
– Provides for an extension of the information
services through flexible data discovery, access
and retrieval services to all users, as well as
flexible timely delivery services;
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WIS Implementation – accomplishments
 Continued GTS upgrades (IMTN, satellite-based datacast,..)
 WMO Core metadata
 Internet portal
 Basic data acquisition, discovery and push-pull
services
 GISC prototype: RA VI VGISC project
 DCPCs prototypes:
 ECMWF & EUMETSAT associated with VGISC project
 NCAR (Boulder)
 NODC (Obninsk) for JCOMM related data
 IGGDS (Space-based data)
Asia-Pacific VPN pilot project
Technical Conference on WIS (Korea, 6-8
November 2006); VGISC & DCPC prototype demo
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European Virtual GISC Project
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Key Future Milestones
• Consolidate plans on development, governance
and implementation of WIS: 2006-2008
• Develop WIS regulatory documentation and
guidance material for implementation, including
specifications for the GISC interfaces and a
unified user interface: 2006-2008
• Develop scheme and practices for security,
authentication and authorization procedures for
WIS services : 2007-2008
• Implementation of first operational GISC: 2008
• Implementation of other operational GISCs: 2009
- 2011
• Implementation of DCPCs, i.e. WIS interfaces at
WMO programmes’ centres: 2008-2011
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Challenges
• Good progress made in concept, technological solutions
and prototypes for WIS, but much work to be done for an
operational WIS
• Understanding of WIS – both internal and external to
WMO:
– What it is, why it is important, what it does for NMHSs, what needs
to be done, …
• Active participation of WMO Technical Commissions and
other bodies -- stating requirements, developing
metadata and implementing WIS interface at their data
centres, etc
• Involvement of all NMHSs in the WIS development,
including awareness of users communities
• Adequate financial and human resources for WIS
development into operations
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CIMO participation
Benefit and coordination for IMOP activities, derived from
the WIS:
• Pursue CIMO’s involvement in development of WMO
Metadata Core Profile with CBS/ Inter-Programme
Expert Team on Metadata Implementation
• Identify the specific CIMO requirements with respect to
data management, data discovery and retrieval and
non-real-time information exchange
• Coordinate CIMO participation through the Meeting of
the Presidents of the Technical Commissions
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Thank you
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