[ET-OWFS-1] Expert team on Operational Weather Forecasting System
The World Meteorological Congress at its eighteenth session through Resolution 7 (Cg-18) – Establishment of WMO Technical Commissions for the Eighteenth Financial Period, decided to establish, in accordance with Article 8 (g) of the Convention, two technical commissions for the eighteenth financial period: a Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM) and a Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Services and Applications (SERCOM). INFCOM held its first meeting virtually through three parts in 2020 and 2021 and decided priority areas to be addressed during the 2020-2023 inter-sessional period.
In that context, the ET-OWFS under INFCOM/ Standing Committee on Data Processing for Applied Earth System Modelling and Prediction (SC-ESMP) will meet to discuss key priority areas of work for consideration by the INFCOM and possibly make recommendations to be brought forward to the session of the Executive Council in 2022.
The provisional meeting agenda is available here and tentative workplan is shown below. When the documents are ready, they can be accessed by clicking the numbers.
The final meeting report is available here.
Part 1
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
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Time (UTC) |
Agenda Item |
Presenter/ Agenda item |
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11:00-11:10 |
Opening
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Ken Mylne |
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11:10-11:30 |
Round table introduction |
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11:30-11:40 |
Adaption the meeting agenda and review on the working arrangement |
Ken Mylne/ |
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11:40-12:00 |
Introduction of new WMO governance structure and constituent bodies’ meeting calendar |
The Secretariat/ |
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12:00-12:40 |
Review on ToRs of ET-OWFS and the priority of deliverables |
Stephanie Landman |
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12:40-13:05 |
Representations of ET-OWFS at the other WMO Constituent Bodies |
Ken Mylne/ |
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13:05-13:55 |
Status and plan for the development of the Guidelines on High-resolution NWP |
The Secretariat/ |
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13:55-14:00 |
Wrap up |
Ken Mylne |
Thursday, 8 July 2021
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11:00-11:15 |
Reflection of Day 1 |
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11:15-11:40 |
Status and plan for the development of the Guide to GDPFS (WMO-No. 305) |
Andrew Tupper/ |
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11:40-12:25 |
Introduction of seamless GDPFS |
Wai Kin Wong/ |
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12:25-12:30 |
Status and plan for the amendment on the Manual on GDPFS (WMO-No. 485) |
The Secretariat/ |
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12:30-12:35 |
Status and plan for the publication of the Guidelines on EPSPP (WMO-No. 1254) |
Ken Mylne & the Secretariat/ |
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12:35-12:55 |
Status and plan for the Guidelines for Nowcasting Techniques |
Ken Mylne |
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12:55-13:05 |
Plans for further development of deliverables |
Ken Mylne 4.6 |
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13:05-13:45 |
Status and plan of Severe Weather Forecasting programme (SWFP) |
The Secretariat/ 6.5 (1) |
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13:45-14:20 |
Consultation on the contents and the reporting method of the WMO Technical Progress Report on Global Data-processing and Forecasting Systems (GDPFS) and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Research |
The Secretariat/ |
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14:20-14:30 |
Closing |
Ken Mylne |
Part 2
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
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11:00-11:10 |
Reflection of Part 1 |
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11:10-11:25 |
Latest development of GDPFS Web Portal and issues on data discoverability and accessibility |
The Secretariat |
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11:25-12:10 |
Introduction of the draft audit procedure |
Stephanie Landmann & the Secretariat |
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12:10-12:20 |
Plan for the migration of data quality monitoring functions operated by Lead Centres |
The Secretariat |
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12:20-12:45 |
Enhancement of guidance and products to support SWFP |
Ken Mylne |
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12:45-12:50 |
Break |
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12:50-13:20 |
Mechanism for rolling review of user requirements |
Ken Mylne |
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13:20-13:50 |
Development of outline of technical guidance on the integration of data on exposure and vulnerabilities into the GDPFS |
The Secretariat |
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13:50-14:00 |
Closing |
Ken Mylne |