Report of Responsible Members (RM)

Hildrun Otten-Balaccanu (DE), Hing-yim Mok (Hong Kong, CH), Dr G.Krishnakumar (IN), Tomoko Sakama (JP), Jan Rozema (NL),

Somova Svetlana (RU), Fraser Cunningham (GB), Eric Freeman (US)

ETMC-5, June 22, 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme (MCSS) Areas of Responsibility

Germany• Area of responsibility: South Atlantic Ocean between 20°N

and 90°S• Service provided at Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)

– DWD also serves as one of two Global Collecting Centres (GCCs)• CM Contributions from German VOS 2012-2014 :

DM-data supply by German fleet during 2012/01 and 2014/12

All data are checked by DWD-HQCand MQCS-6 QC software

Germany• RM Activities:

– 164,341 observations collected within area of responsibility from 2012/01 – 2014/12 from 17 different CM

Germany• Potential Roles in MCDS:

– Delayed-mode Data Acquisition Centre (DAC)– Global Data Assembly Centre (GDAC) to combine data and metadata

from all streams (delayed and real time) with Higher-level Quality Control (HQC)

• DWD is already a registered DCPC

– Centre for Marine-Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOC)

• To begin February 2012• Product development

– Historical data (Data rescue project HISTOR): rescuing the existing data of the archives of Deutsche Seewarte

– Delayed-mode data from German ships• Development of high quality checking applications• Processing of data• Dissemination of high quality data and products for interdisciplinary use• Mirroring facility of ICOADS data holdings contingent on the development of

a CMOC-ICOADS

Hong Kong, China• Area of responsibility: area bounded by the Equator and

latitude 30°N, and longitudes 100°E and 120°E• Service provided by the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO)• CM Contributions from 2012-2014 (by year of

observation): Year of observation

Total≤ 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

619 524 748 142 - 2033

Year of observationTotal≤ 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

282 580 1225 112 - 2199

Year of observationTotal≤ 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

2089 464 935 390 9 3887

Number of data sent in 2012:

Number of data sent in 2013:

Number of data sent in 2014:

Hong Kong, China

• RM Activities:– 79,020 observations collected within area of

responsibility from 2010-2014

– 2,229,424 total observations stored in HKO’s database (through 31/12/2014)

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total

12223 14270 21389 18742 10396 77020

Hong Kong, China

• Potential Roles in MCDS– Delayed Mode DAC for area of responsibility

• Collect marine climate data• Prepare marine climatological summaries

- Explore feasabililty of GDAC role

India• Area of responsibililty: Indian Ocean Area north of 15oS

bounded by the longitudes of 20oE and 100oE• Service provided by India Meteorological Department

(IMD)• CM Contributions:

– Distributed in IMMT2 format– Quality controlled using MQC software version 4

Year 2010 2011 2012

Number of submittedobservations

Q1 181 2297 1336

Q2 - - -

Q3 730 - 180

Q4 - -

India• Archive quarterly files from GCCs 1961-2014:

• Currently producing decadal marine climatological summaries– 2001-2010 is in progress

India

• Potential Roles in MCDS– DAC for VOS data collected in area of responsibility– Upgrading to WMO Climate Data Management (CDM)

Systems

Japan• Area of responsibility: western North Pacific and its

marginal seas• Service provided by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)• CM Contributions from 2012-20115 by quarter:

– Submitted to GCCs in IMMT-5 format and quality controlled using MQCS-7 standards

• JMA will continue efforts to increase the number of unmasked call signs in GCC delayed-mode submissions

January April July October Total

2012 5346 5,633 2,668 3,015 16,078

2013 3,556 5,535 2,407 28,703 14,258

2014 1,053 4,818 3,651 1,387 10,819

2015 1,749 5,065 - - 6,814

Japan• Potential Roles in MCDS

• DAC for marine climate data

Netherlands• Area of responsibility: Mediterranean, Southern

Indian Ocean and the Australian waters• Service provided by Royal Netherlands

Meteorological Institute (KNMI)• CM Contributions 2012-2014:

Date Number of submitted observations

Jan-2012 1,661

Apr-2012 21,093

Jul-2012 7,315

Oct-2012 12,855

2013 35,867

2014 30,181

Total 426,510

Netherlands• RM Activities:

– Number of observations archived from area of responsibility, since 1854:

• Potential Roles in MCDS– Due to budget cutbacks in staff and finances, there

are no active roles anticipated in the MCDS

Responsible Area Number of observations

Mediterranean 4,250,482

Southern Indian Ocean 2,261,027

Australian waters 3,228,480

Total 9,739,989

Russian Federation

• Service provided by the All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - World Data Center (RIHMI-WDC)

• Data is in the IMMT-3 format checked against MQCS-5• 164,503 observations submitted to GCC in last 5 years• CM Contributions 2010-2014 :

Russian Federation

• CM Contributions 1997-2011:– 1,414,845 observations provided to go GCCs

• Observations are currently provided to GCCs in IMMT3 format using MQC-5 qc software, with additional RIHMI-WDC qc applied

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Spatial distribution of Russian observations submitted to the GCCs in last 5 years

Potential Role in MCDS•The Russian Federation is interested to play a role in the MCDS

UK

• Area of responsibility: North Atlantic Ocean• Service provided by the UK Met Office

– UK Met Office also serves as one of two Global Collecting Centres (GCCs)

• CM Contributions 2013-2015 (Q1):

• Data are processed using Met Office quality control software in addition to the MQC software

Year Total Obs2013 87,3852014 85,904

2015 (Q1) 14,366

UK• RM Activities:

– Receive data in IMMT4 and qc with MQCS-6 software and UK Met Office HQC software

– Volume of data stored in the UK Met database for the RM’s area of responsibility:

UK

• Potential Roles in MCDS– Heavily involved in development of MCDS– Migrate role as CM to DAC– Migrate role as GCC to GDAC– Potential role as mirroring Centre for Marine-

Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOC)

US• Area of responsibility: Western Atlantic and

Central/Eastern Pacific Oceans• Service provided by NOAA’s National Climatic

Data Center (NCDC)• CM Contributions 2010-2012 (Q1-Q3):

• Observations submitted to GCCs in IMMT-4/5 format using MQCS-7 qc standards

Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Total

2013 112 - 1278 - 1390

2014 3125 3968 2225 2603 11921

2015 2553 - - - 2553

US

• RM Activities:– Archive quarterly files from GCCs containing

observations made within and outside of the USA area of responsibility

• Potential MCDS Roles:– Consider migrating role of CM to DAC for US

delayed-mode data– Consider role of DAC for real time GTS data– Continue to provide DAC service for the Voluntary

Observing Ship Climate (VOSClim) fleet as needed/recommended by the JCOMM Ship Observation Team (SOT).

Questions?