OSCAR
a key element in WIGOS and RRR
Bertrand Calpini
Vice director MeteoSwiss
Co-chair ICG-WIGOS
Joerg Klausen
MeteoSwiss
co-chair TT-WMD
Chair ET-WDC
OSCAR Project Demonstration
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Web-based platforms for
_ covering land, air, ocean and space
_ documenting stations and observations, and their histories
_ enabling comparison of requirements and capabilities (RRR)
_ facilitating network planning
_ applicable to all WMO Application Areas
_ supporting your service to society!
The Vision of WIGOS
• more efficient use of existing observing systems
• Exploit synergies
• Co-location of observations
• rational evolution of observing systems
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• assess gaps and over-sampling objectively
• adapt observing systems to documented needs
• better services to society
• based on better data for forecasting, now-casting
and warnings, climatology
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Rolling Review of Requirements
• State what you (or someone else) need(s)
• Assess what you (or someone else) have/has
• Compare requirements and capabilities
• Draw conclusions
• Repeat & improve
Surface-based
observing
systems
Analysis
«Critical
Review»
Guidance
for Action
Improved
services
for society
RRR
Capabilities
Requirements
Space-based
observing
systems
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Why metadata are important
• Data without metadata are useless
 metadata needed to understand data
• Needed to assess the adequacy
of observations for a specific application
 Is it «42», or «42 ± 5 (k=2)»?
(CNN, 1999) -- NASA lost
a $125 million Mars
[climate] orbiter because a
Lockheed Martin
engineering team used
English units of
measurement while the
agency's team used the
more conventional metric
system for a key spacecraft
operation, according to a
review finding released
Thursday.
• No certified observations w/o metadata
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Why you need OSCAR/Surface
• Know what you have
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Structured overview of your own observing systems
• Know what they have
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Same structured overview of observing systems in
neighboring countries, region and the world
• Peace of mind
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Safe and secure archiving of metadata including
history of changes … structured and homogeneous
• Know where things should improve
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Objective assessment of gaps
• More value for money through collaboration
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Enhanced valorization of existing observations
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Current Status
Where?
• Integration of Vol A and several other
sources
When?
What?
How?
Why?
• Historization of information
• Beta version of application
available on the internet
• Interactive metadata management
(also on mobile devices)
• Download of information in various
formats
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Acknowledgments
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Project Team at MeteoSwiss
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Project Team at WMO
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Nassos Michas, Christina Kaskoura, Martin Ulmann, Lia Christou, Nektaria
Pappa
ICG-WIGOS, TT-WMD
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Wenjian Zhang, Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Etienne Charpentier, Timo
Pröscholdt
Project Team at European Dynamics
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Jürg Mannes, Lucia Cappelletti, Marc Musa, Martin Brändli, Lars Koppa,
Sascha Spreitzer, Christian Walder, Estelle Grüter, Marc Leutenegger, Stefan
Sandmeier, Martin Schäfer, Alex Rubli, Claudia Sigg, Markus Abbt, Walter
Brunelli , Josefa Mettler
Sue Barrell, Bertrand Calpini, …
Brian Howe, Karl Monnik, Joe Swaykos, Tony Boston, Uli Looser, Ercan
Büyükbas, Zhao Licheng, Antonio Mestre, Tim Oakley, Steve Foreman, Dean
Lockett, Luis Nunes, Roger Atkinson
Financial contributions
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Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, MeteoSwiss, WMO, Met Norway
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& Thanks for
your attention!