GCOS

Implementation Manager’s Report

CLIMAT/CLIMAT TEMP Workshop

Casablanca Dec 2005

Richard K. Thigpen

GCOS Secretariat

Geneva, Switzerland

GCOS GSN Baseline Network

About 1000 Stations

Roughly 150-300 Km Spacing

Mandatory Requirements

Monthly CLIMAT Report of Mean Temps, Precip amount

Target Requirements

Daily Temp, Precip, Pressure

Long History of Operations

NMS Acceptance/Agreement

Historical Data in Archive

80- 90 % of Network Stations meet Minimum Requirements

Biggest Problem: Lack of CLIMAT and Historical Data

GCOS GSN Baseline Network

GCOS GSN Baseline Network

Monitoring Centers:

DWD (Precipitation) JMA (Temperature)

Based on CLIMAT reports

Lead Center and Archive

NCDC

Reports of daily, monthly, historical at

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gcos

GCOS Home Page:

http://www.wmo.ch/web/gcos/gcoshome.hmtl

GSN Activities

• Completed First Review of GSN Performance• Many Stations Working but no CLIMAT• Still Missing Many in Archive• WWW Prepared CLIMAT/TEMP Handbook• GCOS/WCP Prepared CLIREP Software

GSN Stations Number Stations

Reg 1 155

Reg 2 248

Reg 3 119

Reg 4 156

Reg 5 153

Reg 6 118

Reg 7 32

Number of Silent Stations

16

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2

Number of No CLIMAT

48

63

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Total 981 65 (6.6%) 214 (21.8%) 18 (1.8%) 34 (3.5%)

GSN Performance

Around 10 % No CLIMAT

6% “Silent”

2% Working Poorly

4% Reporting CLIMAT Only

Reasons for no CLIMAT

Station Does not Prepare CLIMAT

Use GCOS/WCP CLIREP S/W

Station Prepares but not Received

Verify WMO Pub 9 Vol A

Verify WMO Pub 9 Vol C1

GTS RTH Routing

Verify RTH Routing Tables

Contact a Lead Center or Me!

GSN Stations in Daily Archive

Reasons for No Data in Archive

Did Not Know That Data is needed?

Send to Archive at NCDC

Data Not in Suitable Form?

Data Rescue a Possibility

Not Willing to Share Data?

Why?

GSN Projects/Activities

CLIREP S/W Training

With WWW Planning Series of Workshops

First was in Moscow, Now in Casablanca, South America next?, Others?

Major GSN Changes from Canada, Russia

Better distribution of Stations and Data

GCOS GUAN Baseline Network

About 150 Stations

Uniform Global Distribution (5-10 Deg)

Minimum Requirement

At least 25 soundings/month to 100HPa Temp, Humidity, Wind Speed and Direction

Target requirement

Temp, Wind, Humidity to 5HPa

CLIMAT TEMP

GCOS GUAN Baseline Network

Monitoring Centers:

ECMWF (TEMP)

UK Met Office Hadley Center (CLIMAT TEMP)

Quality Reports:

ECMWF and NCEP

Lead Center and Archive

NCDC

Same Internet Addresses

Number of Silent GUAN

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2001Dec

2002Apr

2002Jun

2002Jul

2002Sep

2002Dec

2003Sep

2003Nov

2004Feb

2004Dec

2005Mar

2005Aug

Number

Performance Reports

DWD/JMA for GSN (CLIMAT)

Includes QC Reports

Hadley Center (UKMO) for CLIMAT TEMP

NCDC for GSN, GUAN

ECMWF and NCEP for GUAN near real time

Most Can be Obtained Through GCOS Home Page

NCDC LONG TERM GSN REPORT

Summary Of Surface Hourly Obs (HLY), Synoptic Obs (SYN), and CLIMAT Data (M) HLY = a count of ALL the obs for a month in the Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) file at NCDC

SYN = a count of the SYNOPTIC ob types for a month in the Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) file at NCDC M = Presence (C) or absence (-) of CLIMAT data in the Monthly Climatic Data for the World (MCDW) at NCDC

January February March April MayR WMO Station Year HLY SYN M HLY SYN M HLY SYN M HLY SYN M HLY SYN M1 60156 NOUASSEUR 2001 753 242 - 675 223 - 760 243 - 712 228 - 701 231 - 1 60156 NOUASSEUR 2002 694 220 - 684 216 - 756 244 - 651 211 - 705 229 - 1 60156 NOUASSEUR 2003 1409 239 - 776 173 - 1281 232 - 1276 231 - 1392 236 - 1 60156 NOUASSEUR 2004 1330 235 - 1294 225 - 1425 241 - 1333 234 - 1428 240 - 1 60156 NOUASSEUR 2005 1007 237 - 1196 220 - 1405 248 - 1368 240 - 1336 247 -

1 60195 MIDELT 2001 231 231 C 216 216 C 239 239 C 213 213 C 211 211 C 1 60195 MIDELT 2002 218 218 C 211 211 C 226 226 C 183 183 - 207 207 C 1 60195 MIDELT 2003 210 210 C 215 215 C 239 239 C 231 231 C 229 229 C 1 60195 MIDELT 2004 227 227 C 222 222 C 224 224 C 223 223 C 233 233 C 1 60195 MIDELT 2005 236 236 C 214 214 C 243 243 C 230 230 C 228 228 C

NCDC GUAN REPORTSummary Of GUAN Stations For 2005 / 10

Column Headings: R = Region Number, AVGPRS = Average Pressure At Observation Tops WMO = WMO Number, >100 = Count of Obs Reaching 100 hPa and Above STATION = Station Name, >50 = Count of Obs Reaching 50 hPa and Above OBS = Total Count Of Observations, >10 = Count of Obs Reaching 10 hPa and Above LVLS = Total Count Of Levels, >5 = Count of Obs Reaching 5 hPa and Above 00Z = Count Of Obs at 23Z, 00Z, and 01Z, TEMPS = Total Levels Containing Temperatures 12Z = Count Of Obs at 11Z, 12Z, and 13Z, DPDS = Total Levels Containing DPD Values OTH = Count Of Obs at All Other Hours, WINDS = Total Levels Containing Wind Values

R WMO STATION OBS LVLS 00Z 12Z OTH AVGPRS >100 >50 >10 >5 TEMPS DPDS WINDS1 60018 TENERIFE-GUIMAR 55 5937 26 29 0 24.1 54 54 1 0 2726 2726 42281 60680 TAMANRASSET, AL 124 4874 31 31 62 326.1 62 60 0 0 2078 1012 37061 61052 NIAMEY-AERO, NIGER 60 2979 29 30 1 22.2 59 57 0 0 1660 651 23111 61641 DAKAR/YOFF, SENEGA 74 3195 31 33 10 141.7 55 47 1 1 1508 758 25051 61901 ST. HELENA ISLAND 21 2186 0 21 0 21.5 21 21 0 0 1302 1302 12581 61995 VACOAS, MAURITIUS 43 1169 16 1 26 162.9 15 6 0 0 358 255 9781 61996 MARTIN DE VIVIES 29 1467 0 29 0 37.1 28 26 0 0 995 554 9521 61998 PORT-AUX-FRANCAIS 31 1544 0 31 0 32.2 31 29 0 0 1061 527 9601 62414 ASSWAN, EGYPT 46 2485 30 15 1 30.5 46 41 0 0 1528 978 16291 63450 ADDIS ABABA, ETHIO 1 77 0 1 0 26.7 1 1 0 0 35 15 561 63741 NAIROBI/DAGORETTI 17 1464 17 0 0 22.4 17 17 0 0 680 310 10501 63894 DAR ES SALAAM, TANZ 1 12 0 1 0 100.0 1 0 0 0 12 8 111 63985 SEYCHELLES IAP 60 8331 31 29 0 32.5 58 52 25 1 5505 3112 39751 64910 DOUALA , CAMEROON 56 3497 28 27 1 61.4 53 31 0 0 1677 942 23131 65578 ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE 0 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 67197 FORT DAUPHIN, MG 67 2609 16 31 20 269.5 33 30 1 0 1261 654 19261 67774 HARARE, ZIMBABWE 29 380 0 5 24 307.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 3801 68110 WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA 0 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

ECMWF GUAN REPORT

Upper Air Height Inventory for October 2005 GUAN StationsSTA = WMO #ID = Station call lettersNS = Number of Soundings with data received by final runs by NCEP for the month.SR = Number of soundings with Significant Rejections (more than 10% total)SA = Number of Soundings with Any rejectionsCR = Number of soundings in that pressure Category with any RejectionsNT = Number of heights in that pressure category for the month TotalNR = Number of heights Rejected in that pressure category for the monthUnder "Termination Cat" are the number of soundings terminated in certain pressure categories. A = at or above 400 mbB = at or above 200 mbC = at or above 100 mbD = at or above 50 mbE = at or above 20 mbF = at or above 10 mb G = at or above 5 mb REGION 4 {SFC - 400} {399 - 100} {99 - 0} Termination CatGUAN SITE NS SR SA CR NT NR CR NT NR CR NT NR A B C D E F G78954 Grantly Adams IAP, Br 26 0 0 0 168 0 0 121 0 0 74 0 26 26 26 19 14 8 078988 Hato, Curacao 15 0 0 0 104 0 0 68 0 0 49 0 15 14 14 13 10 2 078583 Belize/Phillip Goldston 36 29 35 3 254 4 34 177 34 29 128 124 36 36 35 29 28 13 078016 Bermuda NAS Kindley 61 2 2 2 421 8 1 297 5 1 210 2 61 60 60 58 36 7 071082 Alert N.W.T., Can 62 0 0 0 434 0 0 306 0 0 397 0 62 61 61 61 59 58 3171816 Goose Bay, can 62 0 0 0 434 0 0 312 0 0 420 0 62 62 62 62 60 57 3971836 Moosonee, Can 62 0 0 0 433 0 0 310 0 0 389 0 62 62 62 62 62 60 9

NCEP GUAN Report

GCOS

Technical Support Projects

Terms of Reference

Visit each GUAN 2 times per Year

Visit as many GSN as Possible

Actively Monitor all GUAN/GSN

Up to 3 Unscheduled Repair Missions/Year

Training and Calibration

Limited Common Spare Parts

Quarterly Reports

Performance of 7 GUAN Sites Prior to Contract Support

July 2003 thru June 2004Expected 2555

Total Received 1738Complete 999

Partial 739

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Performance of 7 GUAN Sites with Contractor Support July 2004 thru June 2005

Total Expected 2555Total Received 2168Complete Obs 1644

Partial Obs 524

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Receipt of Total Observations Increased by 430 Observations or 29%Receipt of Complete Observations increased by 655 Observations or 76%Reduced Number of Partial Observations by 225 observations or 36%

Photos Around Station

Example

CBS Lead Centers for GCOS Data

Covers GSN and GUAN

JMA for Some Time (GSN Only)

NCDC Just Starting

Iran and Australia Recently Volunteered

Morocco Will Volunteer

Others?

Thank You

RKT