1. EC-69 Side Event: WDQMS activities in RA-VI
Geneva, Switzerland, 11th May 2017
EUMETNET QM and Operations Manager Tanja Kleinert (DWD)

2. 31 EUMETNET Members Large part of RA-VI The National Met Services of:
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Luxemburg
Montenegro
Netherlands
Malta
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
The FYROM
Switzerland
United Kingdom

3. EUMETNET Observations Programme Management Tasks:
Coordinating the evolution of the ground based EUMETNET Composite Observing System (EUCOS),
Monitoring the EUCOS performance,
Supporting Members’ observation activities where possible and
Organising a studies programme.
Observations PROGRAMME
E-AMDAR
E-ASAP
E-GVAP
E-PROFILE
Territorial Segment
(upper air and SYNOP stations)
Quality Monitoring
Studies Programme
Possible future activities
e.g. observation targeting
Programme Components
Fully integrated programmes
Collaborative components
Managed by
Obs PMT
Evolving needs
E-SURFMAR
OPERA

4. The current EUCOS networks
European radiosonde stations
Selected European synoptic weather stations
European commercial AMDAR aircraft
European ships of the Automated Shipboard Aerological Programme
European moored buoys and drifting buoys
European Voluntary Observing Ships
European wind profilers and weather radars delivering vertical wind profiles
European OPERA weather radars
European GNSS sites

5. EUCOS Quality Monitoring
One of the major tasks of the EUMETNET Observations Programme Management Team is to monitor the performance of all EUCOS networks against agreed EUCOS Performance Standards;
EUCOS has set up a web-based EUCOS Quality Monitoring Portal (QMP) for all EUCOS networks as well as a WMO QMP for RBSN surface land stations and radiosonde stations of RA VI and GCOS stations globally;

6. WMO Quality Monitoring Portal
Web-based automated quality monitoring of:
RA VI RBSN surface land stations, radiosonde stations
GCOS GSN surface land stations and GUAN radiosonde stations worldwide
Display of QM statistics of TAC and BUFR messages archived in DWD’s database regarding observation totals data availability and timeliness/latency
Display of accuracy monitoring results of obs minus background of ECMWFs´ first guess

7. EUMETNET´s Quality Monitoring Process
Evaluation of the performance and data quality:
The network performance and data quality is evaluated on a regular basis by checking the results of the QMP
Incident Management Process:
EUMETNET Members are contacted in case of incidents e.g. missing or erroneous data identified in the QMP
Raised incident tickets, status updates, closure of tickets are well documented
Quarterly Quality Monitoring Reports:
On a quarterly basis performance summaries per network as well as per Member are issued in EUMETNET Quality Monitoring Reports

8. EUMETNET´s support to TT-WDQMS
EUMETNET supported the Task Team on WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System (TT-WDQMS) by launching the Demonstration Project in RA-I and the pilot project ‘RWC in a nutshell‘ in RA-VI
In both projects the WMO QMP operated by EUMETNET was adapted to be used as supplementary tool besides the WIGOS tools
EUMETNET took part in training sessions of the pilot projects to train the ‘project RWCs‘ in the use of the WMO QMP

9. RA VI - RWC nutshell experiment on WDQMS
Background:
TT-WIGOS proposed to run an experimental RWC in a nutshell on QM in order to test and demonstrate the practical implementation of the RWC concept
Experiment:
EUMETNET Obs Programme runs operationally the WMO QMP, displaying information on RA-VI RBSN SYNOP and radiosonde data
EUMETNET Obs Programme Management Team provided training to staff member of Federal Hydrometeorological Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FHI BH) in December 2016

10. RA VI - RWC nutshell experiment on WDQMS
Monitoring Task
FHI BH staff member carried out the monitoring tasks
Countries monitored: Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Turkey
Focus on availability (‘silent stations’), timeliness and SYNOP stations with permanently high sea level pressure RMS errors
Lessons learnt:
Most prominent issues with observing stations: there’s a number of stations with non precise position metadata having adverse effect on observation accuracy
clear need to properly maintain OSCAR

11. RA VI - RWC nutshell experiment on WDQMS
Lessons learnt (cont.):
Communication with people in charge of obs networks was difficult (e.g. little time for real conversation on issues)
Resolving of reported issues was hardly observed
Display of information in QMP could be further improved:
Wish for one comprehensive monitoring tool which e.g. immediately displays a geographical map with ‘reported’ station position when clicking on station ID…
Shortlists of stations where errors exceed thresholds
In-depth analysis of apparent issues was often much more time consuming than originally expected
requires sufficient staff resources

12. Questions and comments?
THANK YOU!
Questions and comments?

13. EUMETNET Observations Programme Management Team
Contact Details
Tanja Kleinert
EUMETNET Observations Programme Management Team
GIE/EIG EUMETNET
EUMETNET Observations Programme Management
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Frankfurter Str. 135
63067 Offenbach, Germany 
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