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Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs) : Status of implementation in developing countries

Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs) : Status of implementation in developing countries. By: Albert Mhanda (Climate Change Office, Zimbabwe) & Denis Stuber (Meteo France, France). With the contribution of: the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Christiana Lefebvre &

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Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs) : Status of implementation in developing countries

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  1. Climate Data Management Systems (CDMSs) :Status of implementation in developing countries By: • Albert Mhanda (Climate Change Office, Zimbabwe) & • Denis Stuber (Meteo France, France). With the contribution of: • the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Christiana Lefebvre & • the Agrhymet Regional Centre, Brahima Kone.

  2. CONTENT 2/18 • DEFINITIONS : INSTALLATION / IMPLEMENTATION • CDMS AND CDMS DISTRIBUTION POLICIES • ASSESSMENT OF CDMS STATUS in 2010 • ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs INSTALLATION • TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs IMPLEMENTATION • CONCLUSION & COMMENTS

  3. DEFINITIONS : INSTALLATION / IMPLEMENTATION 3/18 • Definition of "CDMS " : • tool to acquire, store, monitor, preserve, control and manage data; Allows data access and offers various products. • Definition of "CDMS installation" : • hardware and software in place, CDMS system running; • staff have been trained in its basic capabilities. • Definition of "CDMS implementation" : • CDMS installed; • "CDMS being used on a regular and operational basis for the processing of real data observation to prepare a quality controlled data archive which is then being used to produce output for users" . IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  4. 2010: AVAILABLE CDMSs 4/18 6 CDMSs are known to be used in developing countries, each of them having, at least, more than 2 installations. • Some CDMSs are under development e.g. the project of the BoM that is currently developing a CDMS for the Pacific countries. • Other National Meteorological Services (NMSs) or private companies could shortly propose new CDMSs. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  5. FROM CLICOM TO NEW CDMSs… 5/18 2002 / …: installation/implementation of new CDMSs Different distribution methods : • Workshops, • Voluntary Cooperation Programme of WMO (VCP) or bilateral cooperation, • Regional projects, • Commercial purchases. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  6. CDMS THROUGH WMO WORKSHOPS 1/2 6/18 • used for the CLIMSOFT system • toward: 51 countries, 41 developing countries of which 25 least developed countries • 5 workshops: • 2005 Pacific region • 2006 Caribbean • 2006 Eastern and Southern Africa • 2007 Central Africa • 2007 South East Asia IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  7. CDMS THROUGH WMO WORKSHOPS 2/2 7/18 Objective: • Train adequately each NMS representative (training the future trainers) in order to let him/her implement the system when he/she gets back to his centre and trains the rest of the staff. Advantages: • Favour synergy between users, future collaboration and partnership; • Ability to train in a short period of time several NMSs representatives; • Economical process for the trainers resource. Disavantages: • Only 1 person of each NMS is trained; • No time is devoted to the real installation location (the NMS premises); • Difficult to assess the real implementation. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  8. CDMSs THROUGH WMO VCP OR BILATERAL COOPERATION 8/18 • used for CLIDATA, CLISYS and CLIWARE CDMSs • VCP: 4 countries, 3 developing countries of which 1 least developed country • Bilateral cooperation: 5 developing countries of which 1 least developed country Comments • Few VCP operations (4 in 5 years) compared to the CLICOM period (86 in 8 years) • During 1988-2007, VCP has supported 49% of the demand on CDMSs and climatological activities. There is still a demand, 51%, through VCP that has not yet received an answer. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  9. Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) with a WMO project funded by the government of Finland on " Preparedness to climate variability and global change in small islands " that benefits 6 countries of the region; • Agrhymet Regional Centre has selected CLIDATA and builds up a long term project for CDMS implementation that concerned CILSS countries and also ECOWAS countries. A total of 14 countries are already involved. CDMSs THROUGH REGIONAL PROJECT OR REGIONAL ORGANIZATION • used for CLIDATA • 20 countries, 16 developing countries of which 11 least developed countries • 2 cases where CDMS installation and training was performed first in the Regional Centre to be then spread out to NMSs included in the project or in the organization: The advantage of a regional project is that follow-up of the components of the project (resources, training, equipment, software, etc.) are integrated and should ensure continuity IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  10. CDMSs INSTALLATION THROUGH COMMERCIAL PURCHASES 10/18 • used for CLDB, CLIDATA, CLISYS • 20 countries, 12 developing countries of which 2 least developed countries Comment • Costs could be prohibitive for some countries; • Could answer the exact requirements and training needed by the NMS. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  11. CDMSs PER METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION: SUMMARY 11/18 • 53% of the installations through Workshops • Few VCP • 58% of developing countries and 82% of least developed countries have benefited from those distributions IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIES CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  12. ASSESSMENT IN 2010 OF NEW CDMSs INSTALLATIONS 12/18 • Still 21 CLICOM. May be more with unknown situations • CLIMSOFT is the most installed CDMS (39). But probably over-estimated due to the disadvantage of the Workshop distribution method • Nearly 20% of developing countries with an unknown situation • Potentially 35% of developing countries would have to migrate to a new CDMS (CLICOM + unknown situation) IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  13. ASSESSMENT OF NEW CDMSs INSTALLATIONS PER WMO REGION 13/18 • RA III, South America, has yet no new CDMS installation. Among the 11 developing countries of this Region, 4 countries are running CLICOM and 7 have home-made CDMSs • Central America, RA IV, has yet no new CDMS installation. All installations in Region IV, "North America, Central America and the Caribbean", are concentrated on islands referred to by the UN term as “Small Island Developing States” (SIDS) • Except Indonesia, all new CDMSs for the South-West Pacific have been installed in SIDS IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  14. TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs IMPLEMENTATION 14/18 CLIMAT message : an indicator to assess the capability of NMSs to manage their data CLIMAT messages are monthly messages of climatological data that should be sent by NMSs to data centres and exchanged via the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) of the WMO and could reflect the capacity of a NMS to: • collect, on time, the data of its RBCN network; • compute monthly and normals data; • code CLIMAT message; • transmit CLIMAT message. The first three processes are part of CDMS functions. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  15. TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CDMSs IMPLEMENTATION 15/18 Method To compare the evolution of developing countries in producing their CLIMAT messages before and after receiving a new CDMS. 4 groups of NMSs defined, all considered as developing countries. The objective was to compute the percentage of CLIMAT messages that has reached a WMO Centre with a correct format considering 2 time periods : 2000-2002 and 2006-2008. Group 1 9 NMSs from Africa and Agrhymet Group 2 12 NMSs from Africa non Agrhymet Group 3 15 NMSs from Caribbean area Group 4 9 NMSs from Pacific Islands IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  16. slight improvement with an average of + 5.2% Important drop no significant improvement of the capacity of NMSs to produce their CLIMAT message ASSESSMENT OF NEW CDMSs INSTALLATIONS PER WMO REGION 16/18 • May not be an accurate indicator (no validation of the indicator has been done); • May be too soon to detect improvement, the integration of new tools need time; • Still it indicates, as known,issue on elaboration of CLIMAT messages. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  17. CONCLUSION 17/18 Developing countries are still in the process of implementation of new CDMSs: • 71 developing countries, 53% of the total of developing countries, are implementing a new CDMS: CLIMSOFT, CLIDATA, CLISYS, CLDB or CLIWARE; • 21 developing countries are still using CLICOM and will have to migrate; • And 62 developing countries, 47%, are likely to migrate one day to another CDMS (21 CLICOM, 15 home-made and 26 unknown). The real implementation of new CDMSs still need to be evaluated: If the number of CDMSs installations could be counted, CDMSs implementations that is to say their “in-service” status and capacity to answer to the needs of NMSs is difficult to assess. The attempt proposed here with the analysis of CLIMAT messages shows yet no significant improvement of developing countries, with new CDMSs, in managing their climatological data… ...But a questionnaire initiated by CCl, with its expected results in mid 2010, will give a better vision on CDMSs status and determine problems and where there is need for more assistance. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

  18. COMMENTS 18/18 CDMSs description Key features, strengths and weaknesses of the different CDMSs have not been presented. This work is currently undertaken by CCl and would be finalised for the next CCl inter-sessional period. Technical and functional CDMSs evaluation as the one made in 2002 by WMO has been also recommended several time. A long term strategy to establish for CLIMSOFT 29 % of all developing countries are assumed running CLIMSOFT. A major orientation has therefore been taken with the CLIMSOFT solution. If this approach is pursued, and if the software satisfies coming evaluations, the CLIMSOFT project would have to be strengthened in order to avoid what happened to CLICOM when the maintenance and development of the software came to an end. Gathering CDMSs with common practices Standardization of processing and statistical methods (Quality Control, Data Generation, homogenisation, etc.) between CDMSs would facilitate future training and the overall coherency of data management practices. It is also the need of CDMS developers to receive precise requirements on data and metadata processes. IMPLEMENTATION CDMSs POLICIESI CONCLUSION DEFINITIONS

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