1. Jitze P. van der Meulen Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) meulenvd@knmi.nl RA-IV WIGOS Implementation Workshop (English), 1 - 3 December, Willemstad Curaçao Netherlands Caribbean (Bonnaire, Saint Eustatius, Saba), Aruba

2. Outline of the presentation 1.Mission of the NMHS 2.National Observing Issues or Needs 3.Plans for the observing networks 4.WIGOS Implementation Status 5.Summary

3. Netherlands Caribbean and Aruba Saba Bonaire St Eustatius Aruba

4. Mission of the NMHS About KNMI The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) is the Dutch national weather service. Primary tasks of KNMI are weather forecasting, and monitoring of weather, climate, air quality and seismic activity. KNMI is also the national research and information centre for meteorology, climate, air quality, and seismology.

5. Mission of the NMHS Our mission KNMI focuses on monitoring and warning for risks with an atmospheric or seismic origin. In addition, KNMI offers advice and strategy prospects for both acute and future dangers. In order to improve future advice and therefore reach risk reduction, we actively seek to learn from past events. We do this together with our environment: the general public, authorities and (weather) businesses. We continuously innovate our service and thereby create (sustainable) economic opportunities for business, while we contribute to keeping the Netherlands safe, accessible and habitable.

6. Mission of the NMHS Areas of interest: –Weather services: national and aeronautical, –Climate services, –Data services, –Scientific Research (NWP: synoptic and climate; atmospheric research: surface based, upper air, satellite based, in situ [ground, radio sonde, aircraft, remote sensing, chemical composition] Major historical meteorological disaster events –Hurricane sensitive area

7. Mission of the NMHS Staff composition related to observations and data collection/processing and competence: three departments: –Research and development (scientific) –Infrastructure (organisation, instalment, maintenance, calibration, inspection) –Data collection, processing, archive and delivery (e.g. GTS) –Mainly automized (synoptics); Observers at Bonaire only for aeronautical observations

8. WIGOS Implementation Status Status of the WMO-reported national observing networks –All active, all stations deliver data to GTS –Aircraft based observations via Eumetnet Is there an existing national or regional database that catalogues your observing networks? –All available via http://data.knmi.nlhttp://data.knmi.nl –On request via http://www.knmi.nl (climate data)http://www.knmi.nl

9. WIGOS Implementation Status Are your data and metadata are accessible and shared? –All available via http://data.knmi.nlhttp://data.knmi.nl –Metadata database progressing Integration of observations 100% integrated via central facilities Data delivery public via http://data.knmi.nlhttp://data.knmi.nl Quality assurance: ISO 9001 certified

10. Major needs and gaps in observing capabilities and access Please indicate the major needs and gaps, related to observational data and access, when producing weather forecasts and warnings –How can WMO help? Appropriate documentation, available on-line –How can RA-IV and Members help? Co-operation (e.g. like Eumetnet in Europe): cost effective and efficient, exchange of experiences, knowledge and investments

11. Plans for the National Observing Networks Please indicate the current plans and projects for the evolution of the National Observing Networks: Integration of all observing practices already implemented for many decades. Conversion to database oriented systems finished/progressing. No plans, modernization of multifunctional AWS on Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba realized. (Multifunctional: Synoptic, Climate, Aeronautical observations). AMDAR observations to be continued.

12. WIGOS Implementation Status Is there an updated National WIGOS Implementation plan/strategy? –Do you have plans to create and execute such a strategy?: No direct strategy developed so far Strategy remains to have an (multifunctional) integrated observing system, centrally organized. What are your training needs? In house training programme (with certificates) should be sufficient

13. WIGOS Implementation Status Do you have any agreements with your partners? –Formal or informal collaborative arrangements amongst meteorological, hydrological, marine/oceanographic, and academic/research institutions and private sector services within the country for WIGOS implementation: In principle all these relevant bodies (governmental, commercial) are interconnected by e.g. MoU

14. WIGOS Implementation Status Can partners discover and access your data? –Constraints and barriers that may prevent non- NMHS organization from contributing and/or accessing observations via GTS and/or WIS No constraints (EU law op open data access, to be public, free of charge)

15. WIGOS Implementation Status Is there an operational Quality Management System for the National Observing system Network or specific component observing system? –Yes: QMS is established and kept up to date; ISO 9001 certified Are operational and/or maintenance processes for observing systems documented and their implementation monitored? –Yes: Documented in ISO 9001 certified QMS

16. Summary One observations network, based on multifunctional requirements Data collection, processing, archive and dissemination centralized Open data policy ISO 9001 certified QMS