1. South East European Multi-Hazard Early Warning Advisory System (SEE-MHEWS-A) Potential contribution to WMO Global Meteo Alarm System Milan Dacić and Sari Lappi
WMO Secretariat
13 March 2017 First Meeting of the Advisory Group and Technical Team on WMO Global Meteo Alarm System

2. First phase Project highlights
- Overall Objective: Achieved better collaboration between the NMHS, which will contribute to improved protection of life and property in South-East Europe.
- Main outputs:
Detailed implementation plan for a regionally owned Multi- Hazard Early Warning Advisory System (SEE-MHEWS-A) prepared and adopted by NMHS directors.
Consensus of Directors of participating NMHS on the scope and technical content of the SEE-MHEWS-A;
- Implementing organization: WMO, project coordination by FMI
- Funding (First phase): USAID, USD
- Implementation period: 12 months, September 2016 – August 2017

3. Project partners Beneficiaries:
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo (UNSCR /99), the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon.
Collaborators:
ECMWF, EUMETSAT, EUMETNET, ESSL, JRC, ISRBC, SEE-DMC, SEE-VCCCC, Euro- Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, NWP consortiums, European and global NMHSs etc.

4. PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Regional Conference on South-East European Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems:
Preliminary agreement of the scope of the project, geographical coverage and roles of different stakeholders.
Establishment of the cooperative foundation for project implementation.
SEE-MHEWS-A Implementation plan:
Workshop on Forecasting requirements
Workshop on Numerical modelling
Workshop on ICT technologies and Observational requirements for Advisory system
Final Regional Conference
Acceptance of Implementation Plan and the technical specifications by participating NMHSs.
Discussions with potential donors.

5. Why the Advisory System?
Challenges of NMHS
Steady reduction of national budgets for NMHSs
Continuous decrease of number of young experts ready to dedicate lives to research
Changing Legal and Economic environment of NMHSs
Infrastructure developments
Scientific developments
Needs of the Societies for timely and accurate warnings
Reduce the number of casualties
Limit material loss and damage
Contribute to economic growth
Mission of NMHSs:
Establish and operate observing station networks that gather observations of the earth–atmosphere–ocean system in real time
Develop and distribute forecasts, warnings
Advance science and technology
Acquire and operate data-processing and forecasting systems to provide real-time weather, climate, water and related environmental services, including warnings and alerts to the public and sectors

7. Users ECMWF SEE-MHEWS-A Common Information Platform
Global Models
Regional Hydrological Models
Observations & Topographic Data (Centralized DB)
Nested A (High resolution model)
Nested B (High resolution model)
Regional Marine Models
OB S
Da t a
SEE-MHEWS-A Common Information Platform
MET (Products)
HYDRO (Products)
NOWCASTING (INCA, ESSL)
Verification
Visualization & Interactive tools
MARINE (Products)
OBS (Data & Products)
WARNINGS (MeteoAlarm-P)
COMMS (MeteoAlarm-F)
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Project participants (NMHSs, NMSs, NHSs, Water Authorities)
Products, Data & Comms
Stakeholders contributing to CIP
Partner NMHSs
ECMWF
EUMETNET
COPERNICUS
Partner Research Inst.
EUMETSAT
Intl. River Commissions
Users

8. Project Participants (NMHSs, NMSs, NHSs, Water Authorities)
SEE-MHEWS-A Common Information Platform
Low speed Internet
High speed internet
High speed internet
Dedicated line/RMDCN
Project Participants (NMHSs, NMSs, NHSs, Water Authorities)
Terminal
Workstation
(further post-processing)
Met LAM (National)
Workstation
(further post-processing & verification)
Hydro Models (National)
Marine Models (National)
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Automatic Services to Users
Automatic Services to Users
Automatic Services to Users
Automatic Services to Users
Automatic Services to Users
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Manual Services to Users
Manual Services to Users
Manual Services to Users
Manual Services to Users
Manual Services to Users
Users (Ntl. lev)
Users (Ntl. lev)
Users (Ntl. lev)

9. CONCLUSION
MHEWS Advisory System in South East Europe (SEE-MHEWS-A) will contribute to enabling operational forecasting offices issue warnings at national level
MHEWS Advisory Systems may be seen as a possible approach to other regions which may need this kind of support
RA VI and RA I consider collaborating further on future implementation on MHEWS Advisory Systems
SEE could be considered as a pilot region for WMO GMAS

10. PROJECT CONTACTS WMO/FMI Project Office in SEE Sari Lappi
WMO Regional Office for Europe
Milan Dacić
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