1. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Marine Climate Monitoring relevant to WMO / CCl Christiana Lefebvre DWD in Hamburg Seewetteramt Section: Marine Climate Monitoring

2. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 International Marine Meteorological Involvement Content: International Exchange of Marine Meteorological Data (Marine Climatological Summary Scheme) Modernization of MCSS Historical Data from Logbooks

3. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 International Marine Meteorological Involvement JCOMM - Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

4. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 EUCOS - EUMETNET Composit Observing System EUCOS aims to establish and operate a truly European observing network leading to better-quality numerical and general forecasts, initially on a European scale. Marine Component of the EUCOS Operational Programme: E-ASAPE-SURFMAR DB-TAG International Marine Meteorological Involvement VOS DB-TAG VOS-TAG Data Buoy Deutscher Wetterdienst is responsible member of the EUCOS Programme Phase 2007-2011

5. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 International Exchange of Marine Meteorological Data WWW: World Weather Watch MCSS: Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme

6. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Stock in Rotterdam Hamburg Rostock Bremerhaven Stock in Neuseeland Port Meteorological Office

7. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 The Fleet of Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) US DE GB JP BR RU CA NL IN YU MY SA AU SE BE PL FR NZ PH SG CN DK HR HK LV BG ZA ID LT KR TZ PK IE PT KE NO FI IT KP GR IS LK AR CU AZ BD CL TH IL EC ES Number of VOS

8. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Spatial Distribution of VOS Observations

9. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 The Tasks of the GCCs  GCCs ensure, that WMO agreed Minimum QC Standards are applied and feed back results to CM  All data received by GCCs is distributed to 8 RMs quarterly  VOSClim ship data is submitted to DAC  At the year end a ‘GCC Annual Report’ is published highlighting GCCs work and data received  GCCs provide advice/support to CMs

10. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Results from GCC‘s Annual Report 2008

11. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Results from GCC‘s Annual Report 2008

12. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Archiving of Marine Meteorological Data at DWD  DM – VOS Data  Real-time VOS Data via GTS  Data from Platforms or moored Buoy Data via GTS  Data from drifting Buoy via GTS

13. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009

14. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 VOS Data Archive at DWD

15. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 High Quality Control of VOS Data at DWD  On-land Position Check  Time-sequence Check  Comparisons of different Parameters with a Climatology  Manually correction of data errors

16. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009  Archive of statistics for all between 77.0 N bis 60.0 S for the period 1951 – 2000 and for decades MARDAB - Marine Data Base  Means, extremes, frequency distribution (1-, 3-dimensional), variance of different elements as wind, waves, mean sea level pressure, temperatures (TL, TW, TD), visibility, cloud cover, rel. humidity, evaporation  Basis: - About 51 millions of observations of the VOS fleet - quality controlled data by using HQC (flags) - elimination of the port problem due to use of automatic stations  About 1200 Sea Areas of 5° x 5°, partly 2,5° x 2,5° or 10° x 10 °

17. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Monitoring Products Monthly Air Temperatures and Anomalies across the North Atlantic Ocean http://www.dwd.de/

18. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Marine Climatological Summaries decadal periods chart form (Mercator projection) for the area of responsiblity unit areas of 5° x 5° squares tabular form order of presented data monthly and annual charts tabular form for fixed stations and representative areas no financial support by WMO Regulations for the presentation of the MCS: N o l o n g e r ‚S t a t e o f t h e A r t‘

19. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Modernization of MCSS ETMC established 2 Task Teams in 2007:  Task Team on Marine and Oceanographic Climatological Summaries (TT-MOCS)  Task Team on Delayed Mode VOS Data (TT-DMVOS)

20. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009  Future Data Flow Main Topics of the TT-DMVOS / TTMOCS Planning Meeting 2008  Higher Quality Standards (HQCS)  Revisions of IMMT and Minimum Quality Control Standards (MQCS)

21. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Draft for the Future Marine Data Flow

22. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Historical Data from Logbooks DWD holds an Archive of 7796 met. Journals from Sailing Ships and about 23768 met. Journals from Steamers

23. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Archive of Historical Data from Logbooks since 1830

24. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Digitization of the Historical Data: Project HISTOR HISTOR aims in:  Providing quality controlled historical Data  Providing Metadata  Preserving the content of the logbooks by imaging

25. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Digiti- zation Instr. Corr. Date, Time, Pos Met. Check ArchiveNo. of booksNo. of Obs completedca. 16.90010.194.000 POS-Files2.754827.000 ERF-Files15752.000 MarkObs4.7352.721.000 Σ doneca. 24.54613.794.000 Σ total - Σ doneca. 12.563ca. 7.600.000 State of the historical Archive Σ ca. 21.4 million

26. Deutscher Wetterdienst Climate Monitoring CCl Expert Team Meeting – 27.10.2009 Many thanks for your attention