Online Training Workshop for Regional WIGOS Centers in RA I (SADC)

The online Training workshop for Regional WIGOS Centers in RA I - Southern African Development Community (SADC), 19 - 21 October 2020

Documents:

• Expected outcomes and draft program
• List of participants
• Final report

Presentations and recording of the sessions:

Monday, 19 October 2020

• Introduction and welcome (Mr Mnikeli Ndabambi, PR of South Africa with WMO and Mr Etienne Charpentier, Head of Observing Networks and Measurement Division, WMO)
• Introduction to WIGOS (Mr Luis Nunes, WMO)
• Introduction to WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System (WDQMS) (Ms Tanja Kleinert, DWD Germany)
• Introduction to the Regional WIGOS Centre and its daily tasks (Ms Tanja Kleinert, DWD Germany)
• Recording day 1

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

• Introduction to the WDQMS webtool (ECMWF) and potential differences in results of WIGOS Monitoring Centres (Ms Cristina Prates, ECMWF)
• How to evaluate data availability and data accuracy (Ms Tanja Kleinert, DWD Germany)
• Frequent issues and incidents arising in WDQMS (Mr Zulkarnain, WMO)

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

• Roles and responsibilities in WDQMS (Mr Luis Nunes, WMO)
• Incident Management System for RWCs (Mr Zulkarnain, WMO)
• Examples of practical of monitoring, evaluation and incident management (Ms Samantha Linnerts, SAWS)
• RWC South Africa (kickoff of pilot phase operation) (Mr Francis Mosetlho, SAWS)
• Recording day 3