Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss GAWSIS Jörg Klausen Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva September 2010 GAW Station Information System

2 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS Scope Collect and distribute metadata to facilitate discovery and use of atmospheric data from GAW stations and partner programmes. Associated and partner networks Global GAW stations Regional GAW stations Contributing GAW stations

3 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS Web Statistics

4 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen K.I.S.S. (keep it small & simple) No Flash etc. No plug-ins Little Javascript Involve the user Public for viewing Password-protection for editing Machine-to-machine metadata exchange Regular updates Self-maintaining (well …) GAWSIS Design Principles

5 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS Discovery Tools Simple search Advanced search Links to WDCs GoogleEarth™ port

6 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS Main Features Lists (and maps) of stations Lists of contacts Station reports Site characterization Measurement program Meta data for each series Hyperlinks to data (archive) Contacts Bibliographic references Clearinghouse for 3-letter station codes (incl. GAW IDs) CSV formatted

7 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS: vCard

8 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS: Global Overview on AOD

9 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS: Metadata from NDACC

10 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen Interoperability of data centers Facilitate discovery Find information regardless of origin Find everything about a station Find all sites measuring a given variable Converge towards international standards Same vocabularies Same quality standards Facilitate network management and development Increase visibility and traffic to archives

11 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GAWSIS – Metadata Integration for WIS Operational & comprehensive Operational, incomplete No direct link at present CAPMon WDCPC AERONET WMO Global Atmosphere Watch World Data Centre for Aerosols

12 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen WIS Compliance of GAWSIS Achieved within ET-WDC WIGOS/WIS Pilot Project Metadata from various sources are exposed as WIS- compliant XML files, ready for harvesting

13 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen Data Retrieval – A future capability of GAWSIS?

14 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen Data Retrieval – A future capability of GAWSIS? Example of quicklook plot produced with data retrieved from WDCGG This capability would be useful if correlative plots with data from different archives could be produced...

15 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GALION in GAWSIS GALION stations are identified and discoverable in GAWSIS

16 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen GALION in GAWSIS

17 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen Challenges / Future Directions Maintenance of metadata information Responsiveness of station managers Availability of metadata from data centres Identification of metadata items obtained from data centers (vocabularies!) Need to decide what stations/programmes to include in GAWSIS and establish trusted relationships with (meta)data providers Renewal of GAWSIS architecture Establish GAWSIS as a permanent World Data Centre for Metadata within GAW with a view of becoming a DCPC in WIS (CAS-XV)

18 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen CAS-XV (Incheon, 2009) on GAWSIS

19 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen Future Plans (~18 months) Include AERONET, SKYNET if agreements can be found Improve GAWSIS’ capabilities to use and offer web services Improve vocabularies Improve and extend information on data quality Agree on GAWSIS as clearing-house for Laboratory ID (much like GAW IDs) and implement a scheme Extend search capabilities in response to user requests

20 GAWSIS | Second GALION Workshop, WMO, Geneva, September 2010 Jörg Klausen What do I need to do? Go home and enter your page information Remember that your site is tentatively a contributing station We need a step to confirm that sites that submit their information are accepted into the GALION family Please copy me, Gelsomina, and Geir when it is done