1. WMO Space Programme Activities, RARS and IGDDS David Griersmith Observer for WMO at APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii 20-22 September 2006

2. 2 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Contents WMO Space Programme – background information Integrated Global Data Dissemination System (IGDDS) Regional ATOVS Retransmission System (RARS)

3. 3 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Purposes of WMO To promote and foster meteorology, hydrology, and related geophysical sciences and to facilitate world-wide cooperation for the benefit of humankind: Networks for meteorological / hydrological and other geophysical observations; Standardization of observations and publications; Development of operational hydrology; Systems for processing and rapid exchange of data; Applications for socio-economic development (transportation, water, agriculture, oceans, pollution control, etc), environment protection, and policy formation; Disaster prevention and mitigation; Research and training.

4. 4 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Organizational Structure  Congress, supreme body, determines the future policy (meets every 4 years)  Executive Council, 36 Directors of Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Services. They act in their individual capacities (meets annually)  Regional Associations (6) - Address regional concerns  Technical Commissions (8) - Technical experts make recommendations on scientific or technical issues within the purposes of WMO  Secretariat with Regional (3) and subregional (4) Offices

5. 5 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Programme Structure World Climate Programme Atmospheric Research and Environment Programme Applications of Meteorology Programme Hydrology and Water Resources Programme World Weather Watch Programme Education and Training Programme Technical Cooperation Programme Regional Programme WMO Space Programme Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Programme

6. 6 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO space-based sub-system of the WWW’s Global Observing System Unparalleled international cooperation has been achieved in satellite activities*

7. 7 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Status of the WWW ’ s space-based component GOS Standing members operational satellite operators (NESDIS, EUMETSAT, ROSHYDROMET, IMD, CMA, JMA) Newer members NASA – Aqua, Terra, NPP, TRMM, QuickScat JAXA – GCOM series ESA – ERS 1 and 2, ENVISAT FSA –METEOR 3M N1 (R&D inst), OKEAN series CNES – Jason-1, SPOT-5 IMD – INSAT series Republic of Korea – COMSAT-1 Possible future members {JAXA – GOSAT}

8. 8 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Space Programme Fourteenth WMO Congress (May 2003): Recognized critical and fast growing importance of data, products and services provided by WWW’s expanding space-based component of the GOS to WMO Programmes and supported Programmes Decided to initiate a new major WMO Space Programme as a cross-cutting programme to increase the effectiveness and contributions from satellite systems Director of the WMO Space Programme is Dr Donald Hinsman

9. 9 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 International coordination CGMS (Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites) CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) IGOS (Integrated Global Observing Strategy) Partnership COPUOS (UNISPACE III) GEO and its GEOSS (WWW ’ s space-based GOS, a major GEOSS component)

10. 10 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Space Programme - Activities Co-ordination with space agencies within CGMS and CEOS Organisation for new WMO Expert Team on Satellite Systems Development of WMO portions of 10-year Implementation Plan for GEOSS Interaction with the WMO Expert Team on the Evolution of the GOS Preparation for symposia to identify R&D satellite data and products for transition to operational satellites Continuation and expansion of the Virtual Laboratory for Education and Training in Satellite Meteorology APSATS – HPTE 16-27 October 2006, Hosted ABoM Melbourne Improving access to real-time satellite data, and increasing its utilisation [mainly via the Integrated Global Data Dissemination System (IGDDS)]

11. 11 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Space Programme - IGDDS Data Dissemination User Community #1 User Community #2 ADM #1ADM #2 Data from Polar and Geostationary satellites available within region Regional Data Collection and Processing Other regional data (non-satellite) Region A Inter-regional Data Exchange Region B Data from Polar and Geostationary satellites available within region Other regional data (non-satellite) Regional Data Collection and Processing Data Dissemination User Community #1 User Community #2 ADM #1ADM #2

12. 12 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Secondary user community Additional products Regional consolidation Local processing Central processing Other data available from within the region (non-satellite) Data circulation and exchange within a region Central processing Advanced Dissemination Methods User community #2 ADM #2 Data Sources Polar orbiting satellites Polar orbiting satellites Global data in the region locally received data (Recorded/dumped) Geostationary satellites Regional network of HRPT stations An ADM in a Region ADM # 3 User community # 3 ADM #1 User community #1

13. 13 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 System Overview HRPT AAPP USERS UPLINK EUMETSAT NOAA EUMETCast STATIONS GTS

14. 14 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Space Programme - IGDDS IGDDS architecture generally consistent with what already exists In addition provides approaches/guidance for: –Improving access to real-time data –Improving utilisation of real-time data

15. 15 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Space Programme - IGDDS Improving Access to Real-time Data –Match data reception arrangements to the needs of the various user communities Utilise cheap, reliable, off-the-shelf user stations/reception mechanisms Try to ensure only one data reception mechanism is required in order to meet the needs of a particular user community (“one- stop-shop” approach) –Facilitate data exchange between regions

16. 16 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO Space Programme - IGDDS Improving Real-time Data Utilisation –Facilitate the creation of appropriate regional collection networks that match user requirements –Ensure that data exchanged between regions satisfies certain standards, e.g.: Product level Product format Processing software utilisation –Improve timeliness (where appropriate) –Improve data reliability/availability through the adoption of minimum operational standards for the generation of products exchanged between regions (e.g. service monitoring, redundancy etc.)

17. 17 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 WMO SP: IGDDS in Action - RARS EUMETSAT ATOVS Retransmission Service (EARS) has increased ATOVS real time access in Northern Hemisphere Access to near real time ATOVS data important for WMO activities such as implementation planning for the redesign (evolution) of the GOS and THORPEX Need to extend coverage globally especially Southern Hemisphere Regional ATOVS Retransmission System [RARS]: –Following requests from the user community the WMO arranged the 1st RARS workshop (Darmstadt, December 2004) with a number of objectives To consolidate the requirements for ATOVS data around the globe To define a global RARS network capable of meeting these requirements To facilitate the implementation of a global RARS network need for two additional RARS was identified: Asia-Pacific RARS South American RARS ensure consistency of the global RARS dataset via standards in the following areas : Use same version of AAPP S/W for data exchange between the regions (plus BUFR format conversion) Quality-tagging of data (for source traceability) Service management (e.g. service monitoring) WMO Space Programme coordinates & facilitates global RARS activities (Regional ATOVS Retransmission Services) similar to EARS (part of its core strategy to increase satellite data use) RARS-2 1-2 Dec 2005; SthAmer RARS 6-7 September 2005; RARS-3 31 Aug-1Sept 2006.

18. 18 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006

19. 19 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Objectives and Current Status of RARS Initiative RARS Network Architecture Region A RARS ATOVS Data Dissemination ATOVS data from regional HRPT stations Regional ATOVS Data Collection and Processing Users of ATOVS data collected within Region A Regional Dissemination Mechanism (e.g. internet/FTP, DVB satellite broadcast…) Users of ATOVS data collected outside Region A Inter-regional Data Exchange Mechanism (e.g. GTS) Data required by Users outside Region A Region B RARS ATOVS data from regional HRPT stations Regional ATOVS Data Collection and Processing ATOVS Data Dissemination Users of ATOVS data collected outside Region B Users of ATOVS data collected within Region B Regional Dissemination Mechanism (e.g. Internet/FTP, DVB satellite broadcast….) Data required by Users outsider Region B

20. Outcome of the 3 rd global IGDDS-RARS Workshop 31 August– 1 September 2006

21. 21 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 3 rd global RARS & IGDDS workshop Participants from : –Australia, China, Japan, Korea (Asia-Pacific RARS) –EUMETSAT and NOAA (EARS) –Brazil & Argentina (South-American RARS) –WMO Secretariat (WMO SP and WWW/ISS) –GEO (Geonetcast and GEO secretariat) Agenda: –Overall IGDDS project –RARS status and plans –ADM status and plans

22. 22 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 General outcome IGDDS Implementation plan reviewed, action plan was detailed focus on RARS and ADM projects Asia-Pacific RARS is starting South-America RARS is new priority ADM plans need to be finalised in Asia and America

23. 23 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 EUMETCast Update Experience with EUMETCast has shown the importance of “scalability” in terms of dissemination bandwidth EUMETCast started out as a very limited service (for re- transmitting ATOVS data) in 2002 with a bandwidth of 128Kbps Driven by user requests, EUMETCast has now become the primary dissemination mechanism for satellite data over Europe [includes MSG-1 (Meteosat-8), Meteosat-5, Meteosat-6 (rapid scans), GOES, AVHRR and ATOVS data]. Bandwidth in 2005 was 3.7Mbps, now 12 Mbps Key factors in the success of EUMETCast: Cheap, reliable, off-the-shelf user reception stations (<$2000 including PC) –Ku-band over Europe (85cm) –C-band over Africa (2.4m) Data consolidated onto one dissemination mechanism  “one-stop-shop” approach

24. 24 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 EUMETCast System Overview

25. 25 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 EUMETCast Overall Coverage

26. 26 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 EUMETCast 200220032004200520062007 10Mbps 5 Mbps EUMETCast Bandwidth Evolution (Europe) ATOVS + SEVIRI Trial + Rapid scan (M-6) + MSG SEVIRI (M-8) + IODC (M-5) + GOES-9, 10, 12 + DWD SAT + SAF Products +… + AVHRR + Metop data

27. 27 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 EUMETCast

28. 28 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 ATOVS retransmission from 12 HRPT stations Pilot AVHRR retransmission from 5 stations 1 minute segments disseminated within 10 min ! Pilot ASCAT collection from 7 stations Plans for IASI to be refined after Metop commissioning EUMETSAT RARS (EARS) (1) Svalbard Kangerlussuaq Maspalomas Gilmore Creek Dartmouth Edmonton Monterey Wallops Lannion Athens

29. 29 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Asia Pacific RARS (1) RARS currently includes 10 HRPT stations from Japan, Korea, China (concentrated in Tokyo) Australia (concentrated in Melbourne) Tokyo, Melbourne inject ATOVS data into GTS Preliminary feedback of positive impact on NWP 5 HRPT stations to be added by December 2006

30. 30 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 South-American RARS (1) Two Pilot RARS –Brazil (S. Pereira) –Argentina (G. Pujol ) Short-term plans –Experimental implementation and testing (AAPP, OS,..) –Communication trial for concentration and dissemination (FTP, GTS, EUMETCAST) –Operational implementation (products on GTS or equivalent) –User information

31. 31 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 South-American RARS (2) Processing and distribution centre HRPT stations planned in 1 st stage Considered expansion Brazil (INPE) Fortaleza Natal Cachoeira Paulista Brasilia Manaus Cuiaba Peru Chile (TBC) Central-America (TBD) Argentina (CONAE) CordobaMarambio (Antarctica)

32. 32 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 ADM projects (1) EUMETSAT “EUMETCAST” operational –Ku band coverage over Europe (12 Mb/s) –C-band coverage over Europe, Africa, Eastern America –C-band coverage over North and South-America until 2008

33. 33 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 ADM projects (2) Asia-Pacific regional ADM ( Recommendation of 2 nd workshop) –FengyunCast (China) based on Asiasat-4 C-band –Regional project: CMA to contact neighbouring countries to establish collaborative regional approach Collect initial requirements for data Identify data providers from various countries in the region and beyond Ensure availability of user stations in various countries Involve complementary terrestrial links Report at next workshop

34. 34 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Ku Band to C band (AsiaSat-4 at 122E)

35. 35 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 ADM projects (3) ADM projects for Americas taking advantage of the progress made with NOAA-ADM studies, EUMETCAST/America, and NOAA plans for Geonetcast –Continue plans for an ADM over Americas –Ensure continuity beyond current EUMETCAST/America –Including considerations to minimize impact for users

36. 36 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 “GEO Information System of Systems” Health Energy Agriculture Ecosystems Biodiversity Information systems addressing thematic or regional needs WIS System X System Y Climate Weather Water Disaster System Z Region Z Interoperability: common set of interface standards

37. 37 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 System Z Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive System Y Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive Data exchange and management functions WIS (incl IGDDS) Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive System X Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive Interoperability: common set of interface standards

38. 38 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 System Z Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive System Y Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive GEONetcast within GEO”ISS” WIS (incl IGDDS) Requirements Collection Data management DIssemination Discovery & retrieval Archive System X Requirements Collection Data management Dissemination Discovery & retrieval Archive Interoperability: common set of interface standards

39. 39 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 EUMETCast South America NSS 806, C-band, EUMETCast HB-6, Ku-band NOAA AMC-3, Ku-band Current Satellite Infrastructure and Coverage Supporting the GEO-NETCast Demonstration

40. 40 APSDEU-7 Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-22 September 2006 Latest and forthcoming planning activities Just held: –3 rd RARS-IGDDS workshop 31/08-1/09, Geneva –ET-SUP-2, 4-8 September, Geneva –ET-SAT-2, 4-8 September, Geneva –ICG-WIS, 5-8 September, Beijing Forthcoming: –CGMS 34, 2-7 November, Shangaï –CBS WIS Technical conference, 6-8 November, Seoul –CBS, 9-16 November, Seoul –CM-7 Jan 2007 (High Level Policy on Satellites) –4 th RARS-IGDDS Implementation workshop in June 2007 location TBD in the Northern Hemisphere