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CAP Implementation at Deutscher Wetterdienst. Content. Warning process in DWD Portfolio of warnings Formats and publishing of warnings CAP – a powerful data format Status of implementation and route map Open issues First results Next steps. Warning process in DWD.
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Content • Warning process in DWD • Portfolio of warnings • Formats and publishing of warnings • CAP – a powerful data format • Status of implementation and route map • Open issues • First results • Next steps
Warning process in DWD • Law on the Deutscher Wetterdienst § 4 (1) 3 : „… the issuance of warnings of weather occurrences that could become a danger for public safety and order …” Types of warnings: • Public warnings • First candidate for CAP • Combination of more then 8 regions with 50 subareas per region and around 20 meteorological parameters • Different severity classes • Large number of products (upward trend!!) • Aviation warnings • Warnings for global exchange (subset of public and aviation warnings)
Portfolio of public warnings Disaster Management Water Management Energy Provider Event Organiser 10637 * FRANKFURT/M 00860 5005 0111 0108 0 0 10637 +001 2301 14 13 /// /// 22 03 // --- --- 00 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 14 000 000 -003 10637 +002 2302 14 13 /// /// 20 03 // --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13 000 000 -003 10637 +003 2303 14 13 /// /// 22 03 -- --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13 000 000 -003 10637 +004 2304 14 13 /// /// 21 02 // --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13 000 000 -003 10637 +005 2305 13 13 /// /// 21 03 // --- --- 45 / 0 0 0 0 0 1026 13000 000 -003 Winterservices Construction Industry Transport/Traffic Lake warnings Public & Media Avalanche Center detaillierte Strassengebietswettervorhersage Klimagebiet : Altmark Hoehenstufe: 0 - 200 Meter ausgegeben am: Montag, den 12.01.2009 um 10:45 Uhr von : Deutscher Wetterdienst, Regionalzentrale Leipzig Uhrzeit 13 16 19 22 01 04 07 10 13 Bewoelkung 2 2 3 4 5 6 8 8 8 Niederschlag 0 0 0 0 0 0 R 0 R 1 R 0 Lufttemperatur 2 2 -0 -0 -0 0 1 2 3 Wind (km/h) S20 S20 S10 S10 S20 S20 S20 SW10 SW10 Boeen - - - - - - - - - Streckentyp: Standard Belagstemp. 0 -2 -4 -5 -5 -5 -2 0 1 Zustand: - - - - Reif Reif Reif nass nass NWP Models, -Procedures Observation-Networks Production of Bulletins, Warnings, Datasets (e.g. OMEDES, PVW) Visualisation with Ninjo Forecaster
Formats and publishing of public warnings • Formats and publishing of warnings • Default format (text, ia5) • Non standardised xml formats • Publishing and distribution of public warnings • Webbased applications like (DWD or Meteoalarm frontends) • Customised distribution via fax, email, ftp, sms and other • Published via DWD ftp server Problems: • Text format (“unsuitable” input format for applications) • Different customised (“hand-made”) xml formats
CAP – a powerful data format of warnings • DWD standard format of xml-based warnings (reduction of customised formats) • Standard input format of warning applications (next generation)
Status of implementation and route map • First draft implementation for public warnings Access to draft CAP output via DWD ftp-server: For details, please contact: • reik.schaab@dwd.de • Operational Summer 2011: • 1. step: CAP only as an addionally output format for public warnings • nexts steps: CAP as standard format of warnings and other warning products • Using CAP schema for data exchange between different systems (DWD internally)
CAP only as an addional format • Official Start: June 2011 • Using only a subset of CAP possibilities • Well-defined classes of warning
Next generation: • Using the full functionality of CAP • New products like: • Warning with detailed geo references • Warning status for different areas • …
Open Issues • Powerful xsd schema (Version 1.1, draft version 1.2) • But some problems: • Critical points: • meteorological parameters (<parameter>-tag) • Altitude and ceiling values (<altitude>-, <ceiling>-tag) compliant to German / European law • Nice to have: • Message ID (<identifier>-tag): ID managed by WMO repository AND orginator • Authority ID (<sender>-tag): ID managed by WMO repository email
Description of meteorological parameters (1) Workaround: first idea Problem: Using the <parameter>-tag as “machine-readable” element for meteorological parameters: • Combination of value and unit, • Ranges of values (e.g. between 10 and 20; > 20 or < 20) DWD / Meteoalarm (first workaround) draft Version 1.2 (workaround) !
Description of meteorological parameters (2) Proposal b) Proposal a)
Altitude / ceiling – compliant to German low CAP version 1.1 CAP draft version 1.2 Proposal (unit as optional attribute) with optional attribute (“meter”) without optional attribute (“feet”)
Next steps • Publishing public warning (only as addionally format) via DWD ftp server (for details see: http://www.dwd.de: “Special Users, Basic information supply”): June 2011 • Designing a “DWD” profile • Development of CAP based applications like “apps” or “visualisers”
Contact: Dr. Siegfried Fechner Deutscher Wetterdienst Offenbach E-Mail: siegfried.fechner@dwd.de