New Data Policy in South-East Europe(related to the SEE-MHEWS-A project)

Klemen BERGANTPR of Slovenia with WMO, Chair of SEE-MHEWS PAG, ARSO, Slovenia

Milan DACICWMO Representative for Europe, WMO

Directors of National Meteorological and/or Hydrological Services of WMO Member states in South East Europe (SEE-MHEWS Steering Committee)

Michael STAUDINGER, President RA VI, Chair of SEE-MHEWS SC, ZAMGFlorence RABIER, Director-General, ECMWFFlorian PAPPENBERGER, Director of Forecasts, ECMWFUmberto MODIGLIANI, Deputy Director of Forecasts, ECMWFSari LAPPI, WMO Project Coordinator for South-East Europe, WMOEric PETERMAN, Executive Director, EUMETNETBruce TRUSCOTT, RA VI TT-WIGOS Leader, EUMETNET Observation PM, UK Met OfficeWillie MCCAIRNS, Chief Executive, ECOMETMary POWER, Director Member Services, WMOJovan KURBALIJA, Founding Director, DiploFoundation, Head of Geneva Internet Platform

Introduction

Participants in the South-East European Multi-Hazard Early Warning Advisory System project (SEE-MHEWS-A Project)• 17 countries in South Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,

Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine.

• ECMWF, NWP Consortia, HYDRO community

Contributors:• WMO Member states outside SEE: United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Russia, Austria,

Belgium, France, Italy, China, Spain, Switzerland, United States of America, Japan• International organizations and projects: ECMWF, EUMETSAT, EUMETNET, ESSL, JRC

NWP Consortia: ALADIN, COSMO, HIRLAM, NMM-B, FFGS Project, and the International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC), the Drought Management Centre for South-eastern Europe (DMCSEE), South East European Virtual Climate Change Center (SEEVCCC), and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)

More than 120 experts contributed to development of SEE-MHEWS-A Implementation Plan

Financially supported by:

Improved DATA exchange with WMO GDPFS center - special role of ECMWF and member countries -

• Meteorological OBS-data sharing: GTS and ADDITIONAL not-exchanged OBS data (different locations, and/or same GTS locations but more frequent sampling)

used for NWP data assimilation, and nowcasting

• Hydrological OBS-data sharing: covering the river catchment, from different sources including the river dam operators, electricity production companies

used for calibration and operational verification of hydrological models

Role of ECMWF: custodian of additional OBS-data (managing the additional data)

• HYDRO-MET-MARINE Forecasts-data sharing: All meteorological, hydrological, and marine forecasts (incl binary data) and products of high-resolution will be shared with all project participants.

Diverse region Need for a Special Data Policy!

Example of Ukraine additional OBS-data sharingbefore SEE-MHEWS-A

Example of Ukraine additional OBS-data sharingafter SEE-MHEWS-A

Special Data Policy for the SEE-MHEWS-A

What is covered by SEE-MHEWS Data policy? For which use? • All additional MET OBS data managed by NMHSs

(for NWP data assimilation and nowcasting)

• Hydrological Data (for calibration and validation of operational model runs)

• Third party networks - role and responsibility of PR to reach out and make agreements at national level

• NWP and HYDRO predictions (all products, in a Binary form) = high resolution data sets

SEE-MHEWS DATA POLICY AGREEMENT

SEE-MHEWS DATA POLICY AGREEMENT

Data Policy Agreement contains: • Background/Preamble• Definitions• Context• Objectives of the Policy• Organizations covered by the Policy• Observation data covered by the Policy• Monitoring locations covered by the Policy• Observation data to be exchanged • Metadata• Data quality and measurement standard• Forecasts and advisories to be covered by the Policy• Access rights and Data Storage • Use of exchanged data• Ownership and acknowledgment• Future harmonization of data and information• Disputes• Come into effect• Changes to the Policy• Termination and withdrawal

SEE-MHEWS Implementation Plan

SEE-MHEWS DATA POLICY AGREEMENT

Signed already by 14 NMHSs + ECMWF

SEE-MHEWS-A Data Policy - current status of signatures (June 2020) -

in process

Status of data sharing and usage (November 2020)

GTS alone ALL stations

Only Additional: assimilated & being considered for assimilation

Project is resource demandingExtensive Human & Computational resources needed

Long-term commitment needed as well

• All participating countries from SEE contribute in Additional DATA exchange Res40+

• Additional contributions– ECMWF: support to member states in their quasi-operational running of the models– (WMO and ECMWF are political and technological custodians of SEE-MHEWS Data Policy)– Austria: support in nowcasting - ZAMG-INCA at European Weather Cloud– Switzerland: huge support in CPU time– Israel: ICON expertise and CPU time– Greece: COSMO expertise and CPU time– University of Belgrade: NMM-B expertise– Hungary: MET observations data management– Slovenia: ALADIN expertise and CPU time– Croatia: NWP expertise and model verification techniques– Individual experts: Dr Yuri SIMANOV, Dr Tatjana VUJNOVIC, Dr Ana VUKOVIC:

Hydrological data collection and modeling, and MET data processing– Private sector companies engaged: Deltares, and Witteveen+Bos

Hydrological modeling and quality control and HYDRO-model verification

• Donors support is not enough – joint effort with above long-term commitment from countries is crucial for success

Data management

Adding value (NWP, HydroMod, Forecasts, Alerts …)

Conclusions• Strong need for data sharing from multiple countries and different sources

in country (other public entities, private companies, academia) for the delivery of services.

• Agreement on data policy is a prerequisite but much more is needed achieve wider availability and use of the observation data:

– technical support and improvement in technical skills related to observation handling

– need to apply modern technology for data sharing access by WMO GDPFS centers

• To reach an agreement, parties need to see a clear benefit (e.g. improved meteorological & hydrological forecasts and warnings on a national level).

• Project data policy as a first step towards the „Open data“ in the region?

• Closer collaboration between WMO Members is needed in Europe and wider; it brings benefit to everyone (proved in this project).

• WMO able to provide politically neutral platform for joint work in politically complex regions

Thank you

https://public.wmo.int/en/projects/see-mhews-a

This effort is one step towards implementation of the general Data policy covering GBON

– It is a downscaled global to sub-regional requirement for meteorological and hydrological modelling –