WIGOS Operational Information Resource (WIR)

1. WIGOS Operational Information Resource (WIR) Etienne Charpentier, OBS/OSD WMO; OBS

2. WIGOS operational Information Resource (WIR) • Goal: Provide single access point for WIGOS stakeholders (Network decision makers, Implementation Coordinators, Data users etc.) • Shall contain all relevant information on the status and evolution of WIGOS and its components • To be fully operational from 2015

3. WIR purposes • General info. on WIGOS & benefits + impact • Overall description of existing component observing systems (metadata) • Monitor evolution of observing systems capabilities, compare with plans, and look at progress • Access to existing national & regional plans • Assistance to Members • Understanding observational user requirements • Provide information on the required standards • Identifying gaps & potential synergies • For data users: Identifying lists of stations & metadata • For developing countries: Impl. guidance & tools • Mechanism for matching needs with resources

4. Users of the WIR (audience) • Members • Regional Associations • Technical Commissions & experts • Data users (internal & external to WMO) • Obs. network managers & implementers • Partners • All use information from the WIR • All contribute information to the WIR

5. WIR Components • Portal: • General WIGOS information • Basic documents • SORT: Standardization of Observation Reference Tool • WIGOS relevant Standards and best practices • OSCAR: Observing Systems Capabilities Analysis and Review Tool • Network design and planning • Tool for Rolling Requirements Review Process • Sub-components • OSCAR/Requirements: Observational user requirements • OSCAR/Space: Space-based observing systems capabilities • OSCAR/Surface: Surface-based obs. systems capabilities • OSCAR/Distributed: Relevant distributed information systems

6. WIS OSCAR SORT OSCAR/Distributed Observing Systems Capability Analysis and Review Tool E.g. GAW, JCOMMOPS, Radar DB etc Standardization of Observation Reference Tool OSCAR/Requirements BASIC INFORMATION • Benefits, Impacts • Communication and Outreach • Capacity Building • WIP, WDIS, CONOPS… • Data policies • Etc.. Critical Review OSCAR/ Surface OSCAR/ Space CPDB OSCAR User Interface WIGOS Web Portal Implementers of Observing Systems Data users

7. WIR Complexity and Development Effort foreseen Web Portal, Basic Information OSCAR SORT

8. WIR development milestones • End 2012 Overall functional requirements • Draft plan • Development Team set up • Feb. 2013 Kick off meeting (cross Dept.) • Aug. 2013 Start development of OSCAR stage 1 • Aug. 2013 Detailed Specifications of OSCAR stage 2 • Aug. 2013 Detailed Specifications of SORT • May 2014 OSCAR s1 operational • (excl. OSCAR/Distributed) • Nov. 2014 OSCAR s2 operational • (incl. OSCAR/Distributed) • Dec. 2014 Implementation of WIR Portal in future • WMO Content Management System (CMS) • Mar. 2015 Tests & validation • (incl. with Members, RAs, TCs) • Apr. 2015 WIR Operational

9. Status of WIR development • “WIR Development Plan” proposing completion of WIR by 2015 • WIR Development Team set up • Status of components • WIR functional specifications ready • Portal tree defined • SORT basic requirements under discussion • OSCAR/Requirements operational • OSCAR/Space operational • OSCAR/Surface specifications ready

10. Role of Members, RAs, TCs • Members & RAs • Compilation of national & regional requirements • Assist for the collection of information on national & regional capabilities • Use the WIR tools for national & regional network design & planning • Technical Commissions • Technical advise (e.g. IPET-OSDE on OSCAR requirements) • Compilation and validation of global requirements (application area focal points) • Assist for the collection of information on specific observing systems capabilities (e.g. GAWSIS, WHYCOS, JCOMMOPS)

11. Overall requirements for the WIR 1/9 • Providing general information on • WIGOS (outreach, ref. materials, functional architecture, etc.) • Benefits of WIGOS • Impact of WIGOS implementation on Members

12. Overall requirements for the WIR 2/9 • Overall description of existing component observing systems • List of stations contributing to WIGOS (metadata) • Information on products they deliver (link to WIS)

13. Overall requirements for the WIR 3/9 • Evolution of observing systems • Outline existing national & regional plans • Monitoring evolution of capabilities • Comparing with plans (national, regional) • Ascertain progress

14. Overall requirements for the WIR 4/9 • Assist Members and those in charge of observing network design and implementation to understand the requirements for the relevant observing systems, including standards and recommended practices and procedures, and observational user requirements, in order for them to make appropriate decisions

15. Overall requirements for the WIR 5/9 • Assist Members to identify observational gaps through critical review and to conduct network design studies, in order for them to address those gaps

16. Overall requirements for the WIR 6/9 • To assist Members to understand the full potential of the current observing systems with regard to the WMO Application Areas, including those systems operated by partner organizations, to enhance: • Scope & availability of observations made by specific observing stations • Collaborations & partnerships (nationally, regionally, globally) • Data sharing • Data exchange

17. Overall requirements for the WIR 7/9 • Provide data users with immediate access to the list of WIGOS component observing systems, with: • Basic set of observational metadata for each (specified by WMO Technical Regulations), • Links to the appropriate existing national databases where more detailed information is available

18. Overall requirements for the WIR 8/9 • Provide developing countries with guidance on observing network implementation, and tools they can readily use to document their own observing systems • e.g. by using the OSCAR tool of the WIR, they could avoid the need to develop a database nationally

19. Overall requirements for the WIR 9/9 • Provide a mechanism for matching specific needs (capacity building, gaps, etc.) with resources (via knowledge sharing, donor contributions etc)

20. The WIR web portal 1/2wir.wmo.int • Single point of access to all WIGOS related information, and WIR components & tools • General information on WIGOS • Concept • Benefits • Impact • Data policies • Generic information on core WIGOS component observing systems, and co-sponsored observing systems • GOS, GAW, WHYCOS, GCW • GOOS, GCOS, GTOS • Information on how to access data, and link to WIS • Data monitoring information from WIS

21. The WIR web portal 2/2wir.wmo.int • Access to basic communication & outreach documents e.g. • WDIS • WIP • CONOPS • WIGOS Imperative document • Functional Architecture • EGOS-IP • WIGOS Communication & outreach strategy • Information on national & regional plans, incl. IPs, status, gaps, and templates • Guidance on mechanisms for matching needs with resources

22. Standardization of Observations Reference Tool (SORT) 1/3 • A tool for Members to • Assist network supervisors, managers, operators, and data uses to easily access information on relevant WIGOS Regulatory Materials • standards & practices for observing platform implementation, operations • understanding data • A tool for Experts to better apprehend standards, identify inconsistencies, and propose solutions • Goals are to • Optimize operational & development costs • Support production of coherent, traceable, documented data-sets • Improve data quality, and measurement uncertainty • Enhance data usability • Harmonize standards & enhance interoperability

23. Standardization of Observations Reference Tool (SORT) 2/3 • Modernized, standardized access to up-to-date standards, recommended practices, procedures, and guidelines • Step 1: Access to all relevant documents • Step 2: Information System (CMS type & database) to allow: • Referencing of specific standards & practices using taxonomy & vocabulary to be defined e.g. • Network management (e.g. design, installation, maintenance …) • Instrument standards (e.g. siting, classification, uncertainty …) • Metadata (station types, instrument types, variables …) • Data exchange • Quality management • … • Cross referencing • Queries & search • Identify problems, inconsistencies, and propose solutions

24. Standardization of Observations Reference Tool (SORT) 3/3 Standard “atom” • Example of atomization of standards • WMO No. 8, Part I, chapter 2 2.1.3.4 Recording the circumstances in which measurements are taken Temperature is one of the meteorological quantities whose measurements are particularly sensitive to exposure. For climate studies in particular, temperature measurements are affected by the state of the surroundings, by vegetation, by the presence of buildings and other objects, by ground cover, by the condition of, and changes in, the design of the radiation shield or screen, and by other changes in equipment. It is important that records should be kept not only of the temperature data, but also of the circumstances in which the measurements are taken. Such information is known as metadata (data about data). • Characterization of the standard atom: • Technical Regulation (should) • Scope: Global • Owner: WMO • Status: Official • Discipline: Meteorology • Instrument • Variable: air temperature • Siting and exposure • Representativeness • Data management: metadata level of desired granularity to de defined / agreed

25. Observing System Capabilities Analysis and Review Tool (OSCAR) • CBS (2010) adopted strategy for establishing a database in support of the Rolling Requirements Review (RRR) process • Requirements Database (avail. since 2011), now included as OSCAR/Requirements • Content of “Dossier on the space-based GOS” migrated to OSCAR/Space (2012) • Available on-line www.wmo.int/oscar

26. OSCAR | Objectives • In support of the “RRR” for the analysis, design and planning of WIGOS: •  Recording of user requirements •  Comparison with actual or planned capabilities • In support of the use of WIGOS •  One-stop access to satellite, instrument, and ground-based network metadata

27. OSCAR/Distributed (existing DBs) Authority /Maintenance rests with Owners GAW Independent Systems Link to OSCAR User Interface(e.g. via web service -to be defined) JCOMMOPS Radar DB WMO Application Area Focal Points OSCAR(core component) Maintenance of Requirements Core modules share some resources OSCAR/Requirements Contributors Surface-based part Maintain content OSCAR/ Surface (Vol A, Radiosondes) OSCAR/ Space (Satellites, Instruments) WMO Space Programme Administration Maintain content Streamlined Public User Interface

28. OSCAR/Requirements OSCAR/Requirements • Official repository of requirements for observation of physical variables in support of WMO Programmes • Requirements are defined in a “technology-free” manner • Stores definitions and details of around 200 variables and more than 600 requirements

29. OSCAR/Requ. | Process • For each Application Area, designated focal points have limited editing rights on the database • After review and endorsement, these changes become visible to the public • Process overseen by CBS IPET-OSDE

30. OSCAR/ Space OSCAR/Space • Inventory of factual information • Access to Satellites, Instruments, Agencies metadata • Advanced search, filter and export tools • Expert assessments of space-based capabilities • Network review against pre-defined capabilities • Assessment of the relevance and limitations of instruments against particular measurements

31. OSCAR/Space Process • Content is directly maintained on-line, lead by the WMO SP office • Process overseen by relevant Expert Groups (ET-SAT, ET-SUP)

32. Satellite view

33. OSCAR/Surface OSCAR/ Surface • Inventory of factual information • Content from Vol A, Radiosondes • Historical, current and future metadata • Advanced display, filter, query and export facilities similar to OSCAR/Space • Critical review tools • Comparing user requirements with instrument performances • GIS supported analysis on an interactive map

34. OSCAR/Surface | Process • Authorized focal points to maintain information on stations, instruments and measurements

35. OSCAR/Distributed • For integration of partner database content (GAW, JCOMMOPS, Radar), interfaces need to be defined between OSCAR and the DBs • Level of possible integration and technical solution needs to be investigated • Integration in OSCAR v2

36. Overall Requirements • Data must be harmonized among modules to be comparable and interchangeable • Interface must be user-oriented and coherent, appropriate tools must be provided to enter, update, search, filter and export data

37. Thank you for your attention! • Questions ?