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WIGOS from the CAS Perspective

WIGOS from the CAS Perspective. Sandro Fuzzi National Research Council, Italy. WMO: Research Dept. What is the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme?. WMO/GAW was established 1989 by merging GO 3 OS and BAPMoN.

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WIGOS from the CAS Perspective

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  1. WIGOS from the CAS Perspective Sandro Fuzzi National Research Council, Italy WMO: Research Dept.

  2. What is the Global Atmosphere Watch Programme? WMO/GAW was established 1989 by merging GO3OS and BAPMoN. GAW focuses on global networks for GHGs, ozone, UV, aerosols, selected reactive gases, and precipitation chemistry. GAW is a partnership involving contributors from 100 countries. GAW is coordinated by the Research Division of WMO under the purview of WMO Commission for Atmospheric Science (CAS) Currently GAW coordinates activities and data from 29 Global stations, more than 400 Regional stations, and about 100 Contributing stations (http://gaw.empa.ch/gawsis/)

  3. GAW Global Stations WMO

  4. GAW and GCOS GCOS recognition of GAW coordinated observations: the WMO/GAW Global Atmospheric CO2 & CH4 networks as baseline and comprehensive observing networks of GCOS. the WMO/GAW Global Atmospheric N2O network as a baseline and a comprehensive observing network of GCOS. the WMO/GAW Global Atmospheric Total Ozone network as a baseline observing network of GCOS. the WMO/GAW Global Atmospheric Ozone profile network as a baseline observing network of GCOS.

  5. How does GAW work? NMHSs and othercontributors Observations is only one of the elements of the GAW Programme! GAW implements end-to-end approach “from observations to products and services”

  6. GAW Station Information System GAWSISOnline - comprehensive information on all GAW stations • Database • Search / Update • Inventory / Audit (Supported by Switzerland)

  7. World Data Centers • Ozone and UV http://www.woudc.org/ • Solar Radiation http://wrdc.mgo.rssi.ru/ • Greenhouse Gases http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/gmd/wdcgg/ • Aerosols http://www.gaw-wdca.org/ • Precipitation chemistry (http://wdcpc.org/) • The World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere   http://wdc.dlr.de/about/

  8. Where/how GAW provides input to WIGOS • ICG-WIGOS (Sandro Fuzzi) • Harmonization of network regulations, TT-WRM (Ann R. Webb) • Metadata compatibility, TT-WMD (Joerg Klausen) • WIGOS Quality Management, TT-WQM (Rainer Steinbrecher) • WIGOS Implementation Plan, TT-WIP (Emilio Cuevas) GAW works on the establishment of the Rolling Review of Requirements process for Atmospheric Chemistry application area to harmonize the observational network development with strategy for evolution of WIGOS

  9. Progress on Regulatory Material (TT-WRM) • GAW observational component (as one of the WIGOS components) is described in WIGOS Manual • GAW procedures are described in details in Technical Regulations and WIGOS Manual (Chapter 5). • Chapter 5 includes provisions harmonized with the other observational components of WIGOS on: • Requirements (as result of Rolling Review of Requirement process) • Instruments and methods of observations • Metadata standards • Quality management • Capacity development

  10. Progress on Metadata compatibility (TT-WMD) CAS deeply involved in TT-WMD defining the WIGOS metadata standard Work of GAW ET-WDC very much aligned with WIGOS • Discussion of WIGOS metadata standard at recent meeting of GAW Expert Team on Data Centers in Tokyo, January 2014  overall approval • GAW Metadata profile of ISO19115 approved; compliant with WMO Core Metadata profile, and includes many aspects of WIGOS metadata requirements • Notion of a “virtual GAW data center” with interoperable WDCs was approved  strategy document planned • Meanwhile, GAWSIS continues to serve as catalogue of GAW stations and to connect WDCs and related archives. Slide from Joerg Klausen

  11. Opportunities for GAW within WIGOS • improved visibility of observational requirements to Members (as requirements for all application areas are summarized in WIGOS requirements database) • promotion of the GAW observational network extension (encouraging Members to perform atmospheric composition measurements at meteorological & synoptic stations) • promotion of harmonized approach to Quality Assurance (e.g. reporting of harmonized quality flag) • promote exchange of meteorological information for the stations performing atmospheric chemistry measurements (through cross-reference table of code)

  12. Thank you for your attention • Sandro Fuzzi • Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate • National Research Council • Bologna, Italy • s.fuzzi@isac.cnr.it

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