1. DCPC Gulf marine centre as the regional hub
CBS TECO 2016, Guangzhou, China, Nov, 2016
DCPC Gulf marine centre as the regional hub
Omar Obaidan, Sunghoi HUH*, Mohammad AlKubaisi,
Haya AlNaimi, Abdulla AlMannai
Qatar Meteorology Department
Qatar Civil Aviation Authority

2. Agenda Items Motivation Weather Challenges in Arabian Gulf
WMO Information System in Arabian Gulf
Gulf Marine Centre as the Regional Hub

3. Motivation
GCC(Gulf Cooperation Council) members are sharing Arabian Gulf
The seasonal movement of the low pressure system over the Arabian Gulf mainly causes the weather phenomena in this area effecting each other
Summer season, the system is moving from East to West due to the strong Monsoon, and recognizing weather parameters on Southern East countries will be essential to the countries in Northern West area relatively where the winter season will be the opposite

4. Major Weather Risks in Arabian Gulf …
Severe Wind & Dust storm
Severe Fog & Mist causing poor visibility
Strong Heat Wave
Sea Current Variation

5. Weather Challenges : Marine Weather Safety & Storm Surge in Arabian Gulf

6. Weather Challenges : Heat Wave in Arabian Gulf Sea

7. Weather Challenges : Dust Storm covering Arabian Gulf

8. Weather Challenges : Dust Storm covering Arabian Gulf

10. There have been some regional Cooperation on meteorology..
Annual Council of GCC Standing Committee
Official meeting with PRs of Meteorological Departments
Radar Image composition between GCC member countries
UAE has been gathering and displaying composited image(http)
Gathering regional SYNOP data(METAR), but only on the map in Webpage(http)

11. Regional Cooperation on WIS/WIGOS via DCPC GMC
The development of joint activities widening the regional weather watch will definitely provide the multilateral benefits between countries
Cooperation will be required for early warning purpose to reduce the regional disaster contributing to four of the eight WMO strategic priority areas such as Improved service quality & service delivery, Reduced disaster risk, Improved observation & data exchange, Strengthened partnership (Expected results 1, 2, 4, and 7, WMO Strategic Plan , WMO-No. 1161, 2015).

12. WIS Centres in Arabian Gulf (RAII)
Arabian Gulf Region
2 GISCs(Saudi - Jeddah, Iran -Tehran)
4 DCPCs
Qatar(GMC), Saudi Arabia(RTH, RSMC), Iran(RTH)
9 NCs
Qatar(2), Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Iran
Only 1 Meteorological Marine Centre in Qatar
DCPC GMC(Gulf Marine Centre)

13. Work History : DCPC GMC Initiating to establish DCPC GMC : 2010
International WIS Workshop in Doha : 2013
Setting up & Deploying pre-operational system : April, 2014
WMO auditing & endorsed (by CBS) : Sept, 2014
Expecting to be operational by Feb. 2017

14. Gulf Marine Centre(GMC) : Information Service
Aiming to provide Meteorological Marine Service in Gulf Region (Feb 2017)
Gulf maritime data & information via http, FTP, …
Contributing on GMDSS(Global Maritime Distress Safety System)
MoU between Qatar and Pakistan for METAREA-IX (Oct, 2015)

15. Goal to Operation : DCPC GMC (July 2016)
Marine service and regional hub in gulf region based on the WIS compliance
WMO /
JCOMM & GMDSS

16. Data in WIS : DCPC GMC NWP(Numerical Weather Prediction) Products
Gulf regional Atmospheric, Marine and Climate models products
EWS(Early Warning System) data
AWS, Buoy, Road Information System
Real time Meteorological and Seismic data from all over Qatar
GMDSS(Global Maritime Distress and Safety System) via NAVTEX and INMARSAT
Providing oceanic safety and ensuring fast & automatic alerting of rescue authorities ashore as well as ships nearby, in case of a marine distress situation
METAREA IX (cooperation with Pakistan)

17. Our Stakeholders / User Group
Oil & Gas, Refinery Company
RAS GAS, Qatar Gas, Qatar Patroleum
Port authority, Fishery authority
Culture & Tour authority
Defense authority (Civil Defense, Qatar’s Search and Rescue teams)

18. Way to Support Marine Works
Providing site specific forecasting
10 days forecasting (Sea Current / Sea Wave,…)
Real time observation / Forecaster deployment
Quality control & assurance for observation data
Consulting for
Project planning & Construction: Detailed site investigation & survey
Operation: Operational schedule & maintenance planning

19. Benefits Expected
Countries will get to access more regional data & products increasing weather visibility while reducing the financial demands.
Exchanging weather experiences & forecasting skills on extreme weather in Arabian Gulf will get to lead the enhanced weather forecasting activities.
Joint efforts with the training workshop will cause the synergy for initiating regional WIS/WIGOS cooperation, and regional WIS platform will improve the early warning activities with the reaching to the increased weather parameters for GCC countries.

20. Benefits from DCPC GMC
DCPC for Meteorological Gulf Marine & Food Security Information service
Easily find out the regional information based on improved accessibility to the various range of data & products
Discovery, Access, and Retrieval
Internet access to the Web site
Improved accessibility to get various file types
Dissemination via , FTP, HTTP, FAX, …
Dissemination with text, XML, pdf files, …

21. THANK YOU