1. Rodney Martínez Güingla
Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño
“Potential contributions of the Regional Climate Center for Western South America to the Global Cryosphere Watch ”
Rodney Martínez Güingla

2. CIIFEN is an international non-profit organization established on January 10th 2003 as the result of several resolutions adopted by the United Nations. Its International Board is composed by the Governments of Ecuador and Spain, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as observer.
MISSION
To implement actions to consolidate the science-policy interaction and improve the climate services in order to contribute to risk management and adaptation.

3. CIIFEN

5. Regional Climate Center for West of South America
RCC-WSA
Regional Climate Center for West of South America
MISSION
Strengthen the operational capabilities of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of Western South America to contribute to the continuous improvement of their climate services.
VISION
Our Vision is to always have the recognition and active participation of the members to the fulfillment of the mission entrusted.
crc-osa.ciifen.org

6. MILESTONES
Countries of Western South America identified needs for implementation of RCC and defined actions to take
RA III decided to implement RCCs and proposed CIIFEN as one of them
President of the RA III sent a formal letter to the WMO
CIIFEN received the formal support and endorsement to RCC Strategic Plan from the NMHSs from WCSA
RCC Operations started
RCC Portal started to be developed
I meeting of Steering Committee and designation of its President
Task Force of WMO recommended it designation
President of RA III requested WMO to start designation process
Official designation of the RCC
President of WMO commission for climatology after a review of fullfilment of requirements, recommended President of Commission for Basic Systems the designation as a WMO RCC

7. Endorsment from the 6 NMHSs from WSA

8. The main strategic objectives of the RCC-WSA are:
1) Strengthening capacities for climate data management
2) Capacity building for seasonal prediction.
3) Strengthening of climate services to priority sectors.
4) Positioning and visibility.
5) Resource mobilization and technical cooperation.

9. GOVERNANCE Steering Commitee Implementation Guayaquil, April 2014
Cartagena, March 2015
La Antigua, November 2016

10. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Strengthening Seasonal Forecast Capabilities
Strengthening of climate analysis and data management capacities
Development of applications, tools and methodologies for: disaster prevention in agriculture and water resources sectors
Implementation of the Regional Action Plan for Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting
Coordination of a regional drought initiative
Development of tools and methodologies for combined e-learning training in climate data management, applications and modeling
Research Initiative on ENSO Regional Impacts
Implementation of a Resource Mobilization and Sustainability Plan

11. New DELL server installed at RCC-WSA
Increased processing and storing capacity
New RCC-WSA web page implemented for easy access to data and information

12. Climate monitoring - SST
Automatic, weekly and monthly update for eastern Pacific, The Caribbean, and South Atlantic

13. Climate monitoring – subsurface temperature
Monthly subsurface sea temperature, 20°C isotherm, and 25, 45, 75 and 105 meters depth, for eastern Pacific

14. Climate monitoring – air temperature, wind, precipitation…..and more
Weekly and monthly air temperature and anomalies.
Monthly, 5-day5, 10-days precipitation and anomalies
Weekly and monthly wind vectors
Monthly (OLR, Sea Level Pressure, cloudiness) …..

15. El Niño/La Niña
Monthly bulletins of climate analysis, and contribution to WMO’s bulletin. Wide distributed in the region and the world by

16. Seasonal prediction
Rainfall, max and min temperatures probabilities for below normal, normal, and above normal categories, for more than 400 hundred stations. Forecast provided by NMHSs.
Forecast of rainfall, air temperature, and SST from North American Multi-Model Ensemble NMME

17. Drought monitoring
Monitoring of SPI, rainfall anomalies. Implementation of the “Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) Observatory for Latin America” at RCC-WSA servers

18. Regional data repository
Today, LACA&D (with the support of KNMI) is receiving data from 9 participants for 9 countries and the LACA dataset contains 1778 series of observations for 7 elements at 1225 meteorological stations throughout Latin America. 69% of these series can be downloaded from this website for non-commercial research and education. Participation is open to anyone maintaining daily station data.

19. Training activities have been developed as part of the strategic plan approved by the 6 Directors of NMHSs in Western South America
Regional database development workshop – Regional developers group
Regional workshop on statistical climate modeling
Seasonal forecast workshop
Workshop for verification of seasonal prediction
Virtual Forums for discussion of ENSO evolution
SPEI calculation workshop
Workshop for the implementation of the SCADO system

20. The scope of RCC-WSA in climate services
Virtual system for developing climate risk maps in agriculture, energy, health, water and disasters from extreme events.
Digital Repository of analysis tools, information sources and technical manuals for agro climatology.
Monitoring and prediction of drought: contribution to GDIS
Virtual discussion system for the diagnosis and prediction of conditions associated with ENSO.
Implementation of the Action Plan for seasonal hydrological forecast.
Training workshop on validation of sectoral climate indices and sub-regional action plan for its implementation.
Support system with tools, methodologies and best practices in the provision of climate information for risk management.
Coordination of regional climate-health network and coordination with other existing initiatives.
Virtual system tools, methodologies and best practices in the provision of climate information for managing conservation areas.
Virtual system for generating consensus of climate projections for decision making in adaptation.
Coordination and capacity building for climate modeling and prediction

21. Main Challenges
Availability of funding is a limiting factor when developing regional activities
Asymmetries in the development of technical capabilities must be reduced
Communications and coordination between NMHS should be improved
Access to data from Global Production Centers GPCs is still limited
Communication between information generator and the user of the information has still a large gap to cover
The area of communication with users is not yet a priority in some NMHSs
Change the view of the authorities, private companies and international organizations to consider the NMHS not as a provider of information but as a strategic partner for development management

22. Vulnerability of Andean ecosystems
Perú
Ecuador
Bolivia

23. Need of information about glaciers in RCC-WSA
Feasible use:
Andean hydrology modeling
Ecosystems management
Risk management
Drought monitoring
Water supply
Regional group of hydrological modeling

24. CIIFEN, 14 years of service to most vulnerable communities in Latin America

25. Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño
crc-osa.ciifen.org
Phone: (593)
Fax: (593)
Address: Escobedo 1204 y 9 de Octubre
Guayaquil, Ecuador
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