1. Climate Service and WIS under GFCS
Ju-Yon IM, Kyungsuk CHO,
and Won-Tae YUN
Korea Meteorological Administration

2. Contents Global Framework for Climate Services
- Interactions between Global, Regional,
and National levels
Information Flows
- Global level Services
- Regional level Services
- National level Services
Summary and Future Plan

3. Global Framework for Climate Services
WCC-3
(Switzerland, ‘ )
Establishment of the Global Framework
for Climate Change(GFCS)

4. Global Framework for Climate Service
GOAL
Five Pillars of GFCS
Enable better management of the
risks of climate variability and change
and adaptation to climate change at
all levels, through development and
incorporation of science-based
climate information and prediction
into planning, policy and practice
Sectoral Priorities
Agriculture and Food Security
Disaster Risk Reduction
Water
Health

5. Interactions between three levels
data & product
flows
Framework
elements
Feedback &
demand
Global
Global Centers receive and process nationally generated data, and produce and distribute data and products
Observation
Research
Information System
User Interfacing
Capacity Building
Products
globally expressed needs from stakeholders at all levels,
both suppliers and users
Regional
Regional centers & some within-regional collection and exchange of data and products
Stakeholders within the region, particularly national organizations
national
Source of almost all data and products,
for within-country use and for exchange to other countries
Services
Primary focus on national needs

6. Information Flows
UIP
CSIS
Users

7. Information Flows UIP RCOF NCOF Global users Regional users
National users
UIP
RCOF
NCOF
Global Producing Centres(GPCs)
Regional Climate Centres(RCCs)
National Climate Centres(NCDC)
Climate Analysis, Monitoring and Prediction Centers
Global data centres
Regional data centres
National data centres
Climate Data Centres
Global Systems
Regional systems
National systems
Climate Observing Systems
: Climate data
: value-added climate information

8. Global Producing Centres
GPCs adhere to defined standards – aiding consistency and usability of output:
a fixed forecast production cycle
a standard set of forecast products
WMO-defined verification standards (for retrospective forecasts)
Lead Centres for WMO Standard Verification System for Long-Range Forecasts (SVSLRF) at Melbourne and LRF Multi-Model Ensembles (LRFMME) at Seoul

9. Lead Centre for LRFMME Goal :
Provide a conduit for sharing the model data for long-term climate prediction products
Develop a well-calibrated Multi-model ensemble system
Primary Functions :
Collect an agreed set of forecast data from GPCs
Display GPCs forecasts in standard format
Promote research and experience in MME techniques & support on MME techniques to GPCs, RCCs, and NMHSs
Generate an agreed set of Lead Centre products
Redistribute digital forecast data for those GPCs
GPC
•••
RCC
RCOFs
NMHS RC
RCCs
Lead Centre
for LRF MME

10. Lead Centre for LRFMME Activities of LC-LRFMME Training
Support for RCOFs
Support for epidemic control
Training
PRESAO, GHACOF,
FOCRAII, SASCOF
Improvement of Meteorological Disaster Responsiveness for African Countries(May 2011)
Climate Variability and Predictions in South Asia, Eastern and Southeastern Africa(April 2011)
Climate Prediction for African region
WMO, IRI(US),
SADC Drought Monitoring Centre

11. Regional Climate Centres
WMO RCCs/RCC Networks perform well-defined regional-scale climate functions
Mandatory Functions:
Operational Activities for LRF
Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring
Operational Data Services to support operational LRF and climate monitoring
Training in the use of operational RCC products and services
RCCs/RCC Networks will be complementary to and supportive of NMHSs
Designated RCCs
Pilot RCC Networks
BCC
TCC
NEACC
ICPAC
ACMAD
CIIFEN
Pilot RCCs
Pilot RCCs by 2012
Pilot RCC Networks by 2012
Pilot RCCs in development
SADC-CSC

12. Regional Climate Outlook Forum
A key component of WMO Climate Information and Prediction
Services project activities
WMO and a number of national, regional and international organizations (e.g., NOAA, IRI, Meteo France, World Bank, etc.) have supported their growth and expansion
SEECOF
(Southeastern Europe)
FOCRAII
(Asia)
PICOF
(Pacific Islands)
SARCOF
(Southern Africa)
SSACOF
(Southeast of South America)
WCSACOF
(Western Coast of South America)
PRESAO
(West Africa)
GHACOF
(Greater Horn of Africa)
FCCA
(Central America)
CCOF
(Caribbean)
PRESAC
(Central Africa)
SASCOF
(India)
EASCOF
(East Asia)
NEBCOF
NEACOF

13. CORDEX-East Asia Databank
CORDEX (Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling Experiment)
program supporting by WCRP (World Climate Research Program)
international coordinated framework to produce regional climate change projections within the 5th IPCC Assessment Report (AR5) timeline
CORDEX-East Asia databank (
A web portal for user friendly system
Climate Projections produced 3 domestic universities and NIMR/KMA
- National Institute of
Meteorological Research/KMA
- Seoul National Univ.,
Yonsei Univ., and
Kongju National Univ.
KMA will operate the databank
since the end of December 2012

14. CORDEX-East Asia Databank
CORDEX-East Asia domain
(50km horizontal resolution)
Three classes of variables :
Core, relevant to all communities (or users):
- monthly and seasonal mean (43 variables)
Tier 1, relevant to most communities (or users):
- daily surface/selected upper air data (59 variables)
Tier 2, higher frequency and more complete atmospheric/surface variables (37 variables of 6-hourly and 13 variables of 3-hourly)

15. CORDEX-East Asia Databank
All output format and variables are followed as CORDEX Archive Design proposed by DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute)
Two options for data download : Search download & Direct download

16. CORDEX-East Asia Databank
CORDEX-East Asia databank produces graphical products based on core variables and additionally anomalies can be calculated by users using simple statistics

17. NMHSs : Underpinning the GFCS
NMHSs are mandated by the WMO Convention to observing and
understanding of weather and climate and in providing meteorological
(including climatological), hydrological and related services in support of
relevant national needs
NMHSs are structured and trained to provide services
NMHSs through collaborative mechanism have established standard
practices across the globe for weather services
Users deal with weather and climate information in a seamless manner,
and it greatly helps them to meet all their weather and climate information
needs through a ‘single window’; NMHSs can effectively provide such a
single window
NMHSs and their partners constitute a large pool of technical experts
dealing with weather and climate

18. Roles of NMHSs
NMHSs own and operate most of the infrastructure that is needed for providing the weather, climate, water and related environmental services, including observing systems, data management, prediction, communications and data exchange, etc.
GFCS will contribute to the further development of this capability by working with the NMHSs.

19. National-level Climate Services
KMA webpage :
- Long-range forecast, climate projection
- Climate data of Korea and other countries
- Meteorological resource map on wind and solar energy
Climate Change Information Centre(CCIC) :
- Climate change projection(scenarios)
- Observation info on atmospheric composition
for climate change watch
Climate Change Projection(1km)

20. National Climate Data Centre
To provide the right information to the right people at the right
time to make the right decisions
Establishment the National Climate Data Center (NCDC)
(including META data)

21. KMA’s Efforts for WIS GISC Seoul for central Asia
< Republic of Korea >
DCPC for WAMIS
: World Agricultural Meteorological Information System
DCPC for LC-LRFMME
: Lead Centre for Long-Range Forecast Multi-Model Ensemble
DCPC for NMSC
: National Meteorological Satellite Centre
NC for NMC
: National Meteorological Centre
< Uzbekistan >
DCPC for RHT
: Regional Telecommunication Hub
< Pakistan >

22. Summary & Future plan
WMO is looking forward to GFCS as a major step forward in
systematically providing climate information for decision
making at various levels of climate-sensitive sectors.
KMA continues to make an efforts to establish the framework
for climate services based on needs of users as well as
to strengthen collaboration with global, regional, and national
stakeholders.
GISC-Seoul will play a major role to share and distribute data
and products at all levels as the CSIS.
As an approval of Implementation plan for GFCS(Oct., 2012),
KMA is in course of preparation for the Korean GFCS
implementation plan in detail

23. Summary & Future plan
A schematic of the five pillars of the GFCS in Korea
Capacity
development
User groups :
government, private, research, agriculture, water, health,
environment, travel, transport, etc.
User Interface Platform
Operator : sectoral specialized center
Food
security
Health
Water
Disaster
Risk Reduction
Energy
Climate Service Information Center
Operator : KMA(GISC-Seoul, NCDC)
Research, Modeling,
Prediction
KMA/NIMR, APCC, Univs.,
Research institutes/groups
Observation &
Monitoring
KMA, government
(WIS)

24. Korea Meteorological Administration
Thank you
Korea Meteorological Administration