RA-IV WIGOS Implementation Workshop
(English),
1 - 3 December, Willemstad Curaçao
Netherlands Caribbean
(Bonnaire, Saint Eustatius, Saba),
Aruba
Jitze P. van der Meulen
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
meulenvd@knmi.nl
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Mission of the NMHS
National Observing Issues or Needs
Plans for the observing networks
WIGOS Implementation Status
Summary
Netherlands Caribbean and Aruba
Saba
St Eustatius
Aruba
Bonaire
Mission of the NMHS
About KNMI
The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
is the Dutch national weather service. Primary tasks of
KNMI are weather forecasting, and monitoring of
weather, climate, air quality and seismic activity.
KNMI is also the national research and information
centre for meteorology, climate, air quality, and
seismology.
Mission of the NMHS
Our mission
KNMI focuses on monitoring and warning for
risks with an atmospheric or seismic origin.
In addition, KNMI offers advice and strategy
prospects for both acute and future dangers. In order to
improve future advice and therefore reach risk
reduction, we actively seek to learn from past events.
We do this together with our environment: the
general public, authorities and (weather) businesses.
We continuously innovate our service and thereby
create (sustainable) economic opportunities for
business, while we contribute to keeping the Netherlands
safe, accessible and habitable.
Mission of the NMHS
• Areas of interest:
– Weather services: national and aeronautical,
– Climate services,
– Data services,
– Scientific Research (NWP: synoptic and climate;
atmospheric research: surface based, upper air,
satellite based, in situ [ground, radio sonde,
aircraft, remote sensing, chemical composition]
• Major historical meteorological disaster events
– Hurricane sensitive area
Mission of the NMHS
• Staff composition related to observations and data
collection/processing and competence:
three departments:
– Research and development (scientific)
– Infrastructure (organisation, instalment,
maintenance, calibration, inspection)
– Data collection, processing, archive and delivery
(e.g. GTS)
– Mainly automized (synoptics); Observers at
Bonaire only for aeronautical observations
WIGOS Implementation Status
• Status of the WMO-reported national observing
networks
– All active, all stations deliver data to GTS
– Aircraft based observations via Eumetnet
• Is there an existing national or regional database that
catalogues your observing networks?
– All available via http://data.knmi.nl
– On request via http://www.knmi.nl (climate data)
WIGOS Implementation Status
• Are your data and metadata are accessible and shared?
– All available via http://data.knmi.nl
– Metadata database progressing
• Integration of observations 100% integrated via central
facilities
• Data delivery public via http://data.knmi.nl
• Quality assurance: ISO 9001 certified
Major needs and gaps in observing
capabilities and access
• Please indicate the major needs and gaps, related to
observational data and access, when producing weather
forecasts and warnings
– How can WMO help?
• Appropriate documentation, available on-line
– How can RA-IV and Members help?
• Co-operation (e.g. like Eumetnet in Europe): cost
effective and efficient, exchange of experiences,
knowledge and investments
Plans for the National Observing
Networks
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Please indicate the current plans and projects for
the evolution of the National Observing Networks:
Integration of all observing practices already
implemented for many decades. Conversion to
database oriented systems finished/progressing.
No plans, modernization of multifunctional AWS
on Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba realized.
(Multifunctional: Synoptic, Climate, Aeronautical
observations). AMDAR observations to be
continued.
WIGOS Implementation Status
• Is there an updated National WIGOS Implementation
plan/strategy?
– Do you have plans to create and execute such a
strategy?:
• No direct strategy developed so far
• Strategy remains to have an (multifunctional)
integrated observing system, centrally organized.
• What are your training needs?
• In house training programme (with certificates)
should be sufficient
WIGOS Implementation Status
• Do you have any agreements with your partners?
– Formal or informal collaborative arrangements
amongst meteorological, hydrological,
marine/oceanographic, and academic/research
institutions and private sector services within the
country for WIGOS implementation:
• In principle all these relevant bodies
(governmental, commercial) are interconnected
by e.g. MoU
WIGOS Implementation Status
• Can partners discover and access your data?
– Constraints and barriers that may prevent nonNMHS organization from contributing and/or
accessing observations via GTS and/or WIS
• No constraints (EU law op open data access, to
be public, free of charge)
WIGOS Implementation Status
• Is there an operational Quality Management System
for the National Observing system Network or specific
component observing system?
– Yes: QMS is established and kept up to date; ISO
9001 certified
• Are operational and/or maintenance processes for
observing systems documented and their
implementation monitored?
– Yes: Documented in ISO 9001 certified QMS
Summary
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One observations network, based on
multifunctional requirements
Data collection, processing, archive and
dissemination centralized
Open data policy
ISO 9001 certified QMS