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Initial Action Plan of Pilot Project (QM-OBS) Initial Action Plan of Pilot Project (QM OBS) and Workshop Structure Workshop Structure

Coordinator of the Pilot project (QM-OBS) Hakaru MIZUNO (Japan Meteorological Agency)

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14th i f R i l A i ti II (A i ) Background 14th session of Regional Association II (Asia) held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in December 2008 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in December 2008

Resolution 5 (XIV RA II)

Pilot project to enhance the availability and

Resolution 5 (XIV RA II)

p j y quality management support for NMHSs in surface, climate and upper-air observations

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, pp (QM-OBS)

Pilot project: QM-OBS M i d i i Main decisions:

• 1. To set up a Pilot Project Coordinating Group.

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• 2. To appoint Japan as the coordinator of the

Coordinating Group Coordinating Group.

• 3. To invite Members desiring to participate in the pilot

project. 4 To invite advanced centres outside the Region

• 4. To invite advanced centres outside the Region.
• 5. To request the coordinator of the Group to submit

l t d fi l t annual progress reports and a final report . 6.That the Group should normally conduct its work by

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p y y correspondence, including e-mail;

ToRs of Coordinating Group

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tif th i t f NMHS f d l i

• To identify the requirements of NMHSs of developing

countries, and in particular least developed countries i th R i in the Region;

• To assess the current status of the issues, and to
• To assess the current status of the issues, and to

facilitate communication between advanced centres willing to develop the required support and the willing to develop the required support and the recipient Members;

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• To organize assistance to recipient Members in quality

assurance of observational data from weather, climate d i t ti i l di t i i and upper-air stations, including training;

• To monitor the progress of the project;

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Initial Action Plan of Pilot project (QM-OBS) f f 1.Making of a mailing list for RAII members and Coordinating Group members (by the end of May 2010); 2010); 2.Issue of the Newsletter for Pilot Project regularly (a few times a year) (from June 2010); 3.Conducting the survey of members’ requirements on 3.Conducting the survey of members requirements on meteorological observations methods and quality control of observation data (from May 2010); ( y ) 4.Holding Workshop concerning meteorological

• bservation data quality control (July 2010)
• bservation data quality control (July 2010)

5.Making the working plan after the workshop (until S t b 2010)

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September 2010)

Rationale for the structure of this workshop

• Structure follows the decision of Resolution 5 (XIV

RA II), ToRs of Coordinating Group, and Initial Action RA II), ToRs of Coordinating Group, and Initial Action Plan of Pilot project (QM-OBS). T i it M b d i i t ti i t i th

• To invite Members desiring to participate in the

pilot project

• To invite advanced centres outside the Region.

U d th i f WMO

• Under the auspices of WMO
• Designed to ensure that we do not skip any issues

es g ed o e su e a e do

• s p a y ssues

and concerns from the Member’s experiences

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Structure of this workshop

Session 1: User Requirements S i 2 St d di ti

Factors affecting data q alit

Session 2: Standardization Session 3: Siting and metadata

data quality

• Survey results
• Lectcure(s)

Session 3: Siting and metadata Session 4: Sensors/Instruments

Lectcure(s)

• Country reports

Session 5: QA/QC S i 6 T i i

Working group meeting

Session 6: Training Session 7: RIC-Tsukuba and Upper-air observations

Working group meeting for draft summary

Sess o C su uba a d Uppe a

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a o s Session 8: Summary

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Goals of the workshop

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tif th i t f NMHS ti l l

• To identify the requirements of NMHSs, particularly

those of developing countries, in RA II for the implementation of weather climate and upper air implementation of weather, climate and upper-air

• bservations, their provision and their quality

management; management;

• To assess the current status of the above-mentioned

issues;

• To facilitate communication between advanced
• To facilitate communication between advanced

centres and members in developing countries;

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k d ti f M b f RA II t

• To make recommendations for Members of RA II to

acquire/enhance the capability to manage the quality

• f observational data and to make full use of the data

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• f observational data and to make full use of the data.

Items Current Issues Action

Workshop results

Status based on the member’s experiences

Standardization Standardization

• Variables
• Time & frequency
• Guidelines / manuals
• Guidelines / manuals

Siting and metadata

• Environmental condition
• M t d t

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• Metadata record

Sensors / Instruments

• Calibration
• Maintenance

Quality Assurance / Quality Control y

• QC system
• Data monitoring report

Training

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Training

• Training courses

Thank you for your attention. Thank you for your attention.

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Presentation Guidelines

• Each presenter is requested to bring the
• Each presenter is requested to bring the

USB memory stick with presentation file to the JMA staff near the PC place before the JMA staff near the PC place before the sessions start (coffee break, lunch time), so that he will download the file to PC so that he will download the file to PC.

• Duration for a presentation (time for

di i i i l d d) discussion is included):

• 60 min for a Session 2 presentation expect

60 min for a Session 2 presentation expect “Lecture on RIC” presentation,

• 45 min for a Session 1 presentation
• 45 min for a Session 1 presentation
• 30 min for a lecture presentation

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• 20 min for a country report presentation.

COMMENT FORM and Working group for draft summary for draft summary

• Each participant is requested to

it d t k i th write down any comments or remarks in the COMMENT FORM, and hand it to the chairman of the session.

• Each session chairman is requested to

k f th i b d th make a summary of the session based on the presentations, discussions and comments.

• Working group meeting for draft summary

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• Working group meeting for draft summary

(after Session 6)