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TT-RCC report to WGCH-3Dipl.-Met. Stefan Rösner

Overview Administrative issues

Activities in the WMO RA VI Operating Plan

Miscellaneous

Activities for next inter-sessional period

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Administrative issues TT RCC did not have any physical meeting nor telephone conference

Work was focussed on implementation of the network and working towards approval by CBS XV

In September 2012 the WMO Commission on Basic Systems (CBS) in its 15th session approved the nomination

Next step will be the adoption of this approval by WMO Executive Council in May 2013

WMO plans a meeting with all GPCs and RCCs for 25-27 November 2013 in Brasilia

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Activities in the WMO RA VI Operating Plan (1) Conduct WMO RA VI (Pilot) RCC-Network coordination meetings, including

virtual meetings No coordination meetings held since November 2011 Coordination mainly by email RCC workshops

EMS-ECAM 2011 (Berlin) and EMS-ECAC 2012 (Lodz)

Among objectives of EUMETNET Climate Programme: “support the Members (29 in RA VI) with the work of WMO and the RA

VI RCC’s”

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Activities in the WMO RA VI Operating Plan (2) Develop a WMO RA VI RCC-Network Website and implement DCPC

functions www.rccra6.org Work towards a common

WMO-like layout for web sites and products

Nodes have been asked to put logo on the RCC-products Further work is needed to show that the RCC nodes are carrying out the

WMO functions Implementing DCPC functionality is a still ongoing task for each of the

RCC nodes. The TT only can serve as information platform.

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Activities in the WMO RA VI Operating Plan (3) Enlarge the RCC Network services through RCC workshops and carry-ing out

pilot Climate Watch Services, including also hydrology Implementation of Climate Watch Services started with a workshop in

October 2010 NMHSs of Turkey, Serbia and Finland who volunteered as Pilots to test

options for CWSs Workshop with pilots, all RCC nodes and other relevant participants

planned for mid to end March 2012 had to be cancelled. In summer 2012 first climate watches for an ongoing heat wave in

southern and central RA VI have successfully been issued Lessons learned have been discussed in a CWS workshop organized by

WMO during the ECAM in Lodz, Poland

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Activities in the WMO RA VI Operating Plan (4) Analyze requirements and feedback on effectiveness, gaps and improvement

of RCC-services in RA-VI Feedback from users of RCC products remains weak Requirements expressed in the Implementation Plan remain unchanged

and valid But there still is ample room to improve accessibility and common look

and feel of RCC products NMHSs in RA VI would implement a generic email address through which

RCC-related issues could be communicated Newsletters as a means of one-way communication with interested users

– in principle not limited to NMHSs

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Activities in the WMO RA VI Operating Plan (5) Compile and publish catalogue of available products and services pro-vided

via RAVI RCC-Network web-portal product catalogue – kind of

RCC-CD: 2 pages ECA-FlyerRCC-CM: 8 pages brochure with product examples including general

information on each product like methodology used, spatial resolution, temporal resolution, and quality indicators/ validation

RCC-LRF at NEACC: web page with general products, at Météo France: 6 pages brochure with examples and product

information comparable to the RCC-CM catalogue.

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Activities for next inter-sessional period Regional and/ or sub-regional hydrological products/ services Coordination meeting to discuss uptake and usefulness of present RCC

services, review existing requirements from members, and possible extension of the Network e.g. to include ECMWF into the LRF (and monitoring?) nodes

Further improvement of websites, layout of website and products, and keep product catalogue up-to-date

Provide tools e.g. for downscaling seasonal forecasts Discuss and agree on relationship to new RCC-med on issue like

Seamless products, i.e. uniform information, coordinated approach to users (=NMHSs) – work towards consensus statements/ information

RCC-med as consortium member of RCC-Network for products within RA VI?

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Emerging issues (from last WGCH) NMHSs to establish generic email addresses to be used in climate related

(e.g. RCC) contexts Ensure sustained communication Multiple users can access such a mail box There may also be a generic email for RCC issues

Each RCC node each to make available on the Internet a generic presentation and poster (only one for RCC-LRF needs coordination)

Access to restricted (product) areas of RCC-Network on the Internet Work towards one account per country for all RCC related logins

Additional climate observations for RCC Are NMHSs willing to provide RCC (-CD and CM) with additional station

data to improve gridded products?

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PÖ (nis) – 12/2010

Thank you for your attention!Thank you for your attention!