CAP Pilot System in China Meteorological Administration

1. CAP Pilot System in China Meteorological Administration CAP Implementation Workshop – Geneva, 6-7April 2011 Chunfang WANG(wangcf@cma.gov.cn) National Meteorological Information Center of CMA

2. CMA Introduction • CMA is a public service agency directly affiliated to the State Council of the People's Republic of China • with the authorization by the State Council, CMA has been responsible for organizational and operational management of the national meteorological services as a whole. • Hierarchical administrative system • 1 National center • 31 Provincial centers • 328 Prefecture centers • 2431 County offices • Communication system • Private terrestrial wide band network • Satellite two way communication and broadcast network • WMO RTH Beijing, WIS GISC, GEONETCast network center • Objectives • taking the people as our fundamental interests • being thoughtful, considerate and ready for • serving any customers anywhere at any time

3. Public Weather Service of CMAMedia and Capability

4. Public Weather Service of CMAMedia and Capability

5. Current Plan Existing Public Weather service Infrastructure Of CMA National wide all media, all hazard (Unexpected public events ) Public warning system Expansion Improvement Modification

6. Challenge • Technology • Coverage at sea area and distant area • Time effect, MSM • Understanding, minority people, handicaped people • Catalog and encoding for all unexpected public events • Multimedia distribution • Coordination • Local bureaus of CMA • Other department • Telecommunication operators and service providers

7. Current Practice • Event type encoding of 4 category, 33 sub category and 283 type has been submitted. • Integrated alert edit and distribute platform has been developed • CAP profile for alert dissemination from integrated platform to multimedia platform or private systems is under test • New dissemination media is introduced • Beidou, China’s Navigation and communication Satellite

8. Integrated Platform and CAP Profile Difficulty: Additional national standard is needed to fill the gap between CAP and current national standard

9. Gap Between CAP and National Standard

10. Beidou Navigation Satellite System • First generation system • active-mode regional navigation system serving east and south Asia • Three function • positioning • short-data communications • time service • Second Generation is called Compass Navigation Satellite System (CNSS) • passive-mode global navigation system

11. Service Area of Beidou System

12. Beidou Alert Broadcast Format • Start of Message • Head • Distributing agency • issue time, effective time • Event code (event type and category) • Severity level (red, orange, yellow, blue, green) • Affected area (geo-code, circle, polygon) • Text message • End of Message

13. Beidou Terminal for Alert Reception • SMS transmit and receive • Alert receive • Alert filtering according to targeted area (geo-code, circle, polygon) • Severity indication • Message display • Text-to-Speech audio generation • Beep tone • Message storage • active and power saving mode. • AC/DC power supply with backup battery • Backlight for low light situations.

14. Thank You Chunfang WANG Senior communication engineer National Meteorological Information Center China Meteorological Administration No.46,Zhongguancun Nandajie, Haidian District,Beijing,China, Postcode:100081 Tel: +86 10 58995186 Email: wangcf@cma.gov.cn