Inter-Commission Coordination Group On WIGOS Seventh Session Geneva, Switzerland, 15-17 January 2018 INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METEOROLOGIA PROGRESS TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF WIGOS (Regional Association III) José Arimatéa de Sousa Brito Chair, RA-III WG-ITD

REGIONAL ASSOCIATION III WORKING GROUP ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (Asunción, Paraguay, October 2017) Recommendations related to WIGOS: Members to update inventory of national networks regularly Members to begin process of developing national observing strategies and national WIGOS IPs Members encouraged to engage partners raising their awareness of WIGOS benefits Development of a project for development of a regional weather radar mosaic Members to update urgently the WIGOS, WIS, OSCAR/Surface national focal points OSCAR/Surface NFPs to review current situation (heritage from Volume A) and start new entries Members to establish their new WIGOS ID systems Rapporteur appointed to monitor regional aspects of OSCAR/Surface after WS (Lima, Peru)

Recommendations related to WIGOS to next RA-III: REGIONAL ASSOCIATION III WORKING GROUP ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (Asunción, Paraguay, October 2017) Recommendations related to WIGOS to next RA-III: WIGOS General Issues (Previous slide) Transition to RBON Joint TT with WGs Hydrology and Climate to identify different WMO App Areas Draft RBON proposal to be submitted to RA-III Session (November 2018) RA-III Regional WIGOS Center Task Team created and experts designated. Detailed proposal to RA-III session Task team will cover regional aspects of WIGOS data quality monitoring

INITIAL CONCEPT FOR RA III RWC P = Participant center with required infrastructure RA-III RWC Coordination Committee (Mandatory and Optional functions) P1 P2 P3 Mandatory functions and/or Optional functions Mandatory functions and/or Optional functions Mandatory functions and/or Optional functions

PROCESS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RA-III WRC a) Initial proposal submitted by the Chair of WG-ITD to the President of RA-III and ICG-WIGOS-6 b) Proposal submitted to RA-III MG, for the review and endorsement c) Proposal submitted to WG-ITD session in Asunción, Paraguay, in October 2017 d) WG-IDT reviewed, created a Task Team and designated its experts e) TT-WIGOS-RA3 will submit a proposal to next RA-III with a process for selection of candidates for WRC f) Members will be invited by the president of RA-III to submit their candidatures for RWC g) TT-WIGOS-RA3 will analyze candidates for WRC and submit the proposal to RA-III MG for endorsement h) The president of RA-III on behalf of RA III will establish WRC components with identified functions and responsibilities

WIGOS STATION IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR BRAZIL

EXAMPLES OF INMET´S WIGOS STATION IDENTIFICATION 0-20000-0-83377  Corresponds to INMET´s surface station located in Brasilia as registered in OSCAR (from Volume A) 0-76-100-5300108CO83377  Corresponds to a new ID for the existing Conventional Station indicated above 0-76-100-5300108AS00001  Corresponds to a new INMET’s Automatic Weather Station located in the Federal District (Brasilia)

SHORT UPDATE ON WIGOS-SAS/CP PROJECT HIGH LEVEL RECONITION – THE MOST EFFECTIVE WIGOS OUTREACH INSTRUMENT IN THE REGION PLATFORM FOR OTHER REGIONAL PROJECTS: ALERT-AS, FLASH FLOOD, SWFDP FUNDING BY OFDA/USAID ONGOING ACTIVITIES

PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND BUDGET Activity USD Transfer of the current HIS Plata prototype to GISC Brasilia 30.000 Regional Workshop to train experts from 5 participating countries on WIGOS-WIS-WHOS issues 15.000 National meeting in each of the 5 participating countries, with invitation extended to potential partners, under coordination of the experts which attended the Regional Workshop. 50.000 Technical assistance, which includes visits of experts to the 5-participating country to:   Install webservices in 5-participating countries and adaptation of their respective databases Train local experts on the operation and maintenance of the system 75.000 Complementary hardware and software 40.000 TOTAL 210.000

PROJECT SCHEDULE

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