Survey on Climate Data Management Systems

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Survey on Climate Data Management Systems
Based on the answers to a questionnaire initiated by the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
September 2012
Percentage of answers received to the 2010 CCl questionnaire
(July 2011 - April 2012 - August 2012)
100%
% of answers
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
SOUTH NORTH & SOUTHAMERICA CENTRAL WEST
AFRICA
ASIA
EUROPE
June 2011
42%
42%
33%
38%
22%
58%
43%
April 2012
73%
64%
42%
38%
67%
78%
65%
August 2012
79%
67%
42%
58%
67%
84%
72%
Regional Association
OPACE 1.1 Expert Team on Climate Data Base Management System
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CDMS questionnaire July 2011
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CONTENTS
SCOPE OF THE DOCUMENT .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
SUMMARY AND COMMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
HOW MUCH AND WHO ARE THE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONDENTS?.............................................................................................................................................................................. 8
COMPUTERISATION STATUS AND SOFTWARE IN USE ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10
CLIMATE DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CDMS) IN USE....................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
CDMS STATUS .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
CLIMAT MESSAGE ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22
GENERAL COMMENTS OF THE RESPONDENTS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
ANNEX 1 : FRAME OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 26
IDENTIFICATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 27
COMPUTERISATION STATUS AND SOFTWARE IN USE ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27
CLIMATE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CDMS) IN USE ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
CDMS STATUS .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
FOR NMHSS THAT INTEND TO DEVELOP OR MIGRATE TO A NEW CDMS .................................................................................................................................................................. 33
STATUS ON CLIMAT MESSAGE (FM71- CLIMAT) GENERATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
CLIMAT MESSAGE & WMO MIGRATION TO TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS .............................................................................................................................................................. 35
GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE CDMS..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
ANNEXE 2 : LIST OF WMO MEMBERS PER REGIONAL ASSOCIATION .......................................................................................................................................................................... 39
ANNEXE 3 : COMMENTS GIVEN BY RESPONDENTS WHO HAVE ANSWERED THAT THEIR SYSTEMS ARE PARTIALLY OPERATIONAL OR NOT OPERATIONAL 47
ANNEXE 4 : ANSWERS ON FUNCTIONS TO ADD OR ENHANCE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 55
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ANNEXE 5 : GENERAL COMMENTS FROM THE RESPONDENTS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
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Scope of the document
The present document is analysing the answers to a questionnaire sent to members of the World Meteorological Organization. This questionnaire had for objectives to
ascertain the situation of tools used for managing climatological data and to assess the difficulties faced by National Meteorological and Hydrometoorological Services
(NMHSs) on that domain.
Designed by the Commission for Climatology (CCL), this questionnaire was sent in May 2010 to WMO members. The latest answers to the questionnaire were received by
WMO two year later in May 2012. It is the Open Panels of CCL Experts: the OPACEs, and especially the OPACE 1.1, the Expert Team on Climate Data Base Management
Systems, which is in charge of the study of the questionnaire.
The annex 1 gives the frame of the questionnaire, in English, sent to WMO members.
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Summary and comments
Summary
How much and who are the questionnaire respondents?
With 137 answers, the response rate to the questionnaire, 72%, is quite elevated. Mainly if we compare it to a similar questionnaire in 1995 that had obtained 45%
rate. But, to obtain such rate of 72%, 2 years time delay were necessary!
The regions III and IV, South and North America, have obtained the lower percentage of answers, respectively 42% and 58%. The best rates are for Europe WMO region with
84% of answers and Africa with 79%. The rate of answers of developing countries and least developed countries are pratically identical with 68% and 69% of answers.
Computerisation status and software in use
With the exception of 3 countries, all respondents are equipped with computers to store and manage their climatological data.
75% of the respondents are using a Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS). For Asia, the WMO region II, only 50% of the respondents are using a RDBMS.
Oracle is the favourite database engine of the respondents. Nearly for 1 case out of 2. If only respondents from developing countries are considered the ORACLE RDBMS
is used also for 1 case out of 2.
76% of those who are not running a RDBMS, are using the Excel spreadsheet of Microsoft (30 cases).
Windows Operating Systems more present in respondent’s developing countries, Linux Operating Systems (and assimilated) more present in respondents
developed countries
WINDOWS Operating System is running on 45 % of the respondent’s countries against 52% for LINUX and assimilated Operating Systems (UNIX, AIX, SOLARIS). But
Windows is more present for the respondents considered as developing countries (25 cases against 6 cases for Linux) than for developed countries (10 cases against 20
cases for Linux).
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Climate Databse Management System (CDMS) in use
45% of the respondents have developed their own CDMS, but this situation differs from developing countries with only 16% of them have developed their own CDMS.
CLICOM CDMS, which is no more maintained by WMO and outdated is still used by 24 respondents. On those 24 respondents, 10 are using CLICOM with another CDMS
(CLICOM/CLIDATA , CLICOM/CLIWARE, CLICOM/CLIMSOFT, etc…).
CLIDATA is the CDMS the most used by respondents with 20 worldwide installations (See Table 11), then CLIDE with 20 instalations (but only in the Pacific region), and after
CLIMSOFT with 13 installations and CLISYS with 7 installations.
2 regional projects of CDMS have been discovered, the Nile Bassin Initiative which could involve in a final stage 10 countries; and the DBCLIMA (central America) project
which could involve 7 countries.
Also 7 private companies were/are involved in the development of CDMS (see Table 13)
CDMS status
14 countries have their CDMS out of order! And 38% says that their CDMS is not fully operational. The software issue is the main reason of the problems compare to
hardware, training, etc. issues. 63% are satisfied of their CDMS and 37% not (see Tables 15, 16 and 17).
The CDMS enhancements desired by the respondents in descending order are : system architecture (37%), Data products (27%), Data control (19%), see Table 18.
The most important difficulty face d by the respondents is the lack of computer science expertise pointed out by 68% of them. (see Table 21).
Nearly half of the respondents would like to change their CDMS. 51% of the respondents who would like to change their CDMS, would like to replace it by one of the existing
distributed CDMSs. 20% would like to develop a new one by a private company, and 12% plan to develop it by themselves.
CLIMAT message
For 54% of the respondents, the generation of the CLIMAT message is still a process not completely automatic, i.e. human actions is needed,
65 % of the respondents says that their CLIMAT message is not ready to be coded in TDCF , or that they do not know about this issue.
General comments of the respondents
The “lack of training” is the subject the most discussed by the respondent (14 cases), followed by “Software or CDMS enhancement needed” (13 cases) and finally “request of
assistance” (13 assistance). 12 respondents say that they are in a development or transition phase.
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Comments and survey follow-up
Put in place a monitoring on CDMS status and on capacity building on climate data management
This questionnaire gives an image of the situation in 2010/2012. To implement a monitoring it is needed to:
Conduct at regular time interval, e.g. 2 years, such collect of information from WMO members;
Reduce the delay of conception/reception and of analyses of the answers. 2 year to collect the answer plus several months for the analysing is too much timeconsuming. Solutions could be to:
use Web technologies for sending and receptioning the questionnaire and its answers. This could be a WMO project not for this specific CDMS domain but for
any collect of information from WMO members. Thus, completion of questionnaire would be facilitate, e.g. pre-filled questionnaire could also be sent according
the previous answers of the NMHSs;
develop and implement tools for the analyses of the questionnaires and for the spreading of its results to all the actors for quick and relevant decision making
(database implementation with link to the future country profile database of the WMO).
Already some assistance actions could be considered:
•
•
•
For the NMHSs that have their CDMSs no more operational (14 cases) and those with a CDMS partially operational (49 cases). See table 15;
For those who have a CDMS outdated (CLICOM, 14 cases), and those who do not use modern tools (31 cases are using spreadsheet or a word editor). See table 7.
For those who declare that CLIMAT message in TDCF is an issue (see Table 24).
Also, we face with a new situation due to (1) CDMSs distribution not always concerted or (2) some transition phase: some NMHSs are currently implementing 2 CDMSs, even
3 for one NMHS. This situation risks weakening NMHSs that split their expertise and their data in different systems (see Table 12).
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How much and who are the questionnaire respondents?
137 answers to the questionnaire were received:
o 130 from official WMO members (for a total of 183) 1, that represent 41% of WMO members;
o 2 United Nations Territories: Hong Kong, Macao;
o 4 British overseas territories: Anguilla, Cayman Island, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands;
o and 1 Island-country: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
We will consider in this document the 137 answers as WMO members. In that case we get a rate of 72 % of answers to the questionnaire. The previous questionnaire on
CDMS in 1995 had obtained a rate of 45% of answers.
The percentage of answers to the questionnaire varies from 84% (Europe) to 42% (South America) as report by the Table 1.
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
# of MEMBERS and other
territories, British overseas
territories and countries
52
33
12
26
18
50
191
# of ANSWERS
% of ANSWER
41
22
5
15
12
42
137
79%
67%
42%
58%
67%
84%
72%
Table 1. Percentage of answers received to the 2010 CCL questionnaire from the different WMO regional associations (RA)
1
As they appeared on WMO web site with a status dated on the 4 December 2009
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RA #
RA
DC WITH ANSWER
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
DC WITH ANSWER
%
78%
60%
45%
54%
50%
77%
68%
40
12
5
7
5
17
86
LDC WITH ANSWER
LDC WITH ANSWER %
24
4
NO LDC
0
3
NO LDC
31
75%
50%
NO LDC
0%
75%
NO LDC
69%
Table 2. Number and percentage of answers received from developing countries (DC) and least-developed countries (LDC) to the 2010 CCL questionnaire
according the different WMO regional associations (RA)
The annex 2 lists the WMO members per Regional Association and split those who have answered the questionnaire from those who do not.
To classify countries as developing countries and least-developed countries we use a classification according the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (Table 3).
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Developing countries
51
20
11
13
10
22
127
Least-developed countries
32
8
0
1
4
0
45
Table 3. Number of WMO members per WMO region who are considered as developing countries and as least-developed countries
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3 countries answered that they are not using computers for storing and managing their climatological data : Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe, and Turks and Caicos Islands
(a British Overseas Territory). Cameroon said that their old computers are no more running, but they are waiting for assistance (Japan contribution?). Sao Tome and Principe
are using only paper records, and little information was given by Turks and Caicos Islands.
All other respondents, 134 countries, are using computers to store and manage their climatological data.
Those who are using a RDBMS
103 countries, that are 75% of the respondents, are using a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) - 25% are still not using a RDBMS.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Use a RDBMS
30
11
4
9
11
38
103
73%
50%
80%
60%
92%
90%
76%
Do not use a RDBMS
10
11
1
6
1
4
33
24%
50%
20%
40%
8%
10%
24%
Table 4. Number of respondents (and percentage) per WMO region who are using a RDBMS
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According the Table 5, the ORACLE database engine is the most used. ORACLE appears also to be the favourite database engine if only developing countries are
considered. DataEase which is the CLICOM RDBMS is still in use in 11 cases. Then ACCESS, the Microsoft RDBMS used by the CLIMSOFT CDMS appears also 11 times.
Finally POSTGRESQL and SQL SERVER (5 and 6 cases) are also present.
RDBMS
AFRICA
ACCESS
ACCESS/MYSQL
DATAEASE
DATAEASE ACCESS MYSQL
DATAEASE BDCAC BDCLIMA
DATAEASE ORACLE
DATAEASE/ACCESS
DATAEASE/CLIMSOFT
DBASE CLICOM
EMPRESS SQL SERVER
FOXBOSE
IBM DB2
INFORMIX
INFORMIX/MYSQL
INGRES
MIMER
MYSQL
ORACLE
ORACLE POSTGRESQL
ORACLE/DATAEASE
ORACLE/POSTGRESQL
POSTGRESQL
SQL SERVER
SYBASE
TOTAL
ASIA
SOUTH
AMERICA
7
7
1
NORTH
AMERICA
1
1
PACIFIC
1
EUROPE
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
38
9
1
11
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
50
1
1
1
5
6
1
103
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2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
13
8
2
1
2
1
30
11
4
1
3
3
1
1
2
9
11
TOTAL
21
Table 5. Number of the different Relational Database Management Systems used per WMO regional association
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WINDOWS Operating System is running on 45 % of the respondent’s countries against 52% for LINUX (see Table 6). 64% of the respondents which are considered as
developing countries are using Windows as Operating System. The developed countries are using Linux/Unix for 73% of them.
The old Microsoft Operating System (MS-DOS) is still used in 3 countries : United Republic of Tanzania, Guyana and Brunei Darussalam.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
DOS
1
0
1
0
1
0
3
2%
0%
20%
0%
8%
0%
3%
LINUX / UNIX
6
6
2
4
7
23
48
15%
15%
5%
10%
17%
56%
52%
WINDOWS
17
4
1
3
2
15
42
41%
10%
2%
7%
5%
37%
45%
Table 6. Number of the different Operating Systems used per WMO regional association for those having a RDBMS
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For those who are not using a RDBMS (42 respondents)
Be careful : Some have answered that they are using a RDBMS but also that they are using other systems to manage their climatological data - 9 countries are in this case:
BAHAMAS, EL SALVADOR, AUSTRALIA, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM, SOLOMON ISLANDS, FYR OF MACEDONIA, MALTA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION (IN EUROPE),
VANUATU.
o
o
o
o
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
30 use a spreadsheet (76% are using Excel from Microsoft)
1 a word editor (Bangladesh)
1 Binary file
10 flat files
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Spreadsheet
8
7
0
6
5
4
30
27%
23%
0%
20%
17%
13%
100%
Table 7. Number of countries per WMO region that do not use a RDBMS and are using a spreadsheet to store and manage the climatological data.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
WINDOWS
8
9
0
6
4
7
34
UNIX/LINUX
0
2
1
1
1
0
5
Table 8. Number of countries per WMO region that do not use a RDBMS and who are using WINDOWS or UNIX/LINUX Operating System.
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Climate Database Management System (CDMS) in use
This is the list known by WMO of existing CDMS available for distribution:
CDMS name
AMS
CLDB
CLIDE
CLICOM
CLIDATA
CLIMSOFT
CLISYS
CLIWARE
JCDMS
QUALIMET
SDCLIM
Editor
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Microstep-MIS company
Bureau of Meteorology from Australia
WMO
Czech Republic NMHS
Zimbabwe NMHS
France NMHS
Russian Federation NMHS
Jordan NMHS
Ernst Basler + Partner company
Tunisia NMHS
Table 9. CDMS known by WMO to be distributed to other National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs)
It appears that 61 respondents (45%), see Table 7, have developed their own CDMS. This figure, 61, drops to 22 (16%) if only respondents from developing countries are
considered.
RA #
RA
Respondents that have developed their own CDMD
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
8
10
3
7
7
26
61
Respondents that have developed their CDMD and who are
considered as developing countries
7
5
3
1
1
5
22
Table 10. Respondents that have developed their own CDMS
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CLICOM is still used (24 cases). CLIDATA is the CDMS the most used by respondents with 20 worldwide installations (See Table 8), then CLIDE with 20 installations (but only
in the Pacific region), and after CLIMSOFT with 13 installations and CLISYS with 7 installations.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
CLDB
CLICOM
CLIDATA
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
11
2
2
2
2
5
24
8
0
0
2
1
9
20
CLIDE
15
15
CLIMSOFT
CLISYS
CLIWARE
JCDMS
QUALIMET
8
2
0
2
1
0
13
4
2
0
0
0
1
7
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
Table 11. Number of respondents who are using a distributed CDMS per WMO region and per CDMS (the information of the installation of the CLIDE CDMS have
been added according the information given by the BoM).
It is found, in reference to Table 9, that 10 respondents are using 2 different CDMSs, and one respondent is even using 3 different CDMSs!
NMHS
Algeria
Benin
Belarus
Cayman Islands
Chili
Gambia
Guinea
Malaysia
Mali
Namibia
Philippines
Rwanda
Sri Lanka
Uganda
Vietnam
CDMS 1
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLIDATA
CLIDATA
CLICOM
CLICOM
CLISOM
CLICOM
CLIMSOFT
CLICOM
CDMS 2
Local development
CLIDATA
CLIWARE
CLIDATA
SACLIM
EXCEL
CLIDATA
MKCLIM
CLIMBASE
CLIDATA
Local Development
CLIMSOFT
CLIMSOFT
CLIDATA
CLIMSOFT
CDMS 3
CLIMSOFT
Table 12. NMHS using more than 1 CDMS
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New CDMSs appear:
•
•
Nile Bassin Initiative (Burundi) : Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Eritrea is as an observer.
Only Burundi answered that they ware using a software from the Nile Bassin Initiative.
DBCLIMA ( BDAC : Central American Climate Data Base) designed by INSIMUEH is used by Barbados and El Salvador. Could be extended to Belize, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Private companies who have developed a CDMS
Region
1
2
2
3
5
5
6
Private company (CDMS name) and country
? (GDCLIM) in Morocco
COROBOR (MESSIR CLIM) in Iran.
KOREAN KDC COMPANY AND KMA (M_CDPS) in Mongolia
SONDA S.A. CHILE (SACLIM) in Chile
PT MITRA MEDIA INFORMATIK (MEGASOFT) in Indonesia
JOHN SANSOM AND TEAM (CLIDB) in New Zealand
CLIMA_DB from Singular-Logic SA (CLIMA_DB) in Greece
Table 13. Private companies that have developed a CDMS
Most of the CDMS have been developed locally, 45, and 34 have been provided by WMO. The Table 11 counts also the CDMS installations through bilateral mechanism or
directly purchased by the NMHS.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
OWN
5
7
0
7
3
23
45
WMO
19
3
2
4
2
4
34
BILATERAL
6
2
0
2
4
9
23
PURCHASED
5
4
2
0
1
5
17
DO NOT KNOW
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
Table 14. Count the number of CDMS installations according 4 different mechanisms used to obtain them
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CDMS Status
49 respondents, that are 38%, say that their CDMS is not fully operational, on those 49 respondents 78 % are considered as developing countries.
14 respondents have their CDMS not functioning at all: ANGOLA, BENIN, CAMEROON, ETHIOPIA, GUINEA-BISSAU, MADAGASCAR, SEYCHELLES, KYRGYZSTAN, LAO
PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, MALDIVES, DOMINICA, SAINT LUCIA, TURKS AND CAICOS, ALBANIA.
The reasons given for having trouble with CDMSs are firstly hardware issue (8 respondents) then software issue (7 respondents), lack of training (6 respondents) and
infrastructure issue (3 respondents).
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Fully operational
Partially operational
Not operational
13
11
0
6
9
28
67
20
4
4
6
3
12
49
7
3
0
3
0
1
14
Table 15. CDMS Status per WMO region
See annexe 3 to look at all comments given by respondents who have answered that their systems are partially operational or not operational.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Hardware issue
Software issue
Training issue
Infrastructure issue
Internet issue
Financial issue
12
3
1
0
0
0
16
13
2
1
9
4
10
39
7
2
0
0
0
0
9
2
0
2
0
0
0
4
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
Table 16. CDMS Status per WMO region
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125 answers to the question “Overall, are you satisfied with the functions offered by your CDMS?”
o 63% are satisfied with the functions offered by their CDMS, and 37% are not.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Satisfied
Not Satisfied
20
14
1
7
4
33
79
18
4
3
6
7
8
46
Table 17. CDMS Status per WMO region : Number of members that answered if they were satisfied or not satisfied of their CDMS
To the question “Are there functions you would like to add on your CDMS?”
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH
AMERICA
NORTH
AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
GRAPHICS
AND GIS
DATA
PRODUCT
DATA
ACQUISITION
DATA
CONTROL
DATA and
METADATA
MANAGEMENT
NEW CDMS
SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURE
TRAINING
24%
0%
0%
31%
50%
0%
3%
0
25%
17%
17%
25%
7%
17%
0%
24%
50%
0%
14%
50%
75%
14%
17%
0%
0%
22%
22%
11%
33%
0%
56%
11%
22%
20%
9%
44%
44%
27%
11%
16%
11%
33%
32%
19%
33%
20%
16%
11%
8%
13%
33%
32%
37%
0%
0%
6%
Table 18. Percentage of members that have answered to this question and would like to enhance some specific function of their CDMS (they could answered to
several functions enhancement)
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH
AMERICA
GRAPHICS
AND GIS
DATA
PRODUCT
DATA
ACQUISITION
DATA
CONTROL
DATA and
METADATA
MANAGEMENT
NEW CDMS
SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURE
TRAINING
7
0
0
9
3
0
1
0
1
5
1
1
2
1
0
7
3
0
4
3
3
4
1
0
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RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
NORTH
AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
0
2
2
1
3
0
5
1
2
5
14
4
11
29
1
4
9
3
8
19
3
5
14
1
2
13
3
8
26
0
0
6
Table 19. Number of members that have answered to this question of enhancement of some specific function of their CDMS (they could answered to several
functions enhancement)
See the annexe 4 for all respondent’s answers on functions to add or enhance.
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About the difficulties face by the respondents, if the lake of budget prevails for the African region it is the lack of computer science expertise that is pointed out in Europe (see
Table 12).
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Lack of budget
Lack of human resources
23
11
3
5
6
10
58
22
10
3
4
6
8
53
Lack of
climatological
expertise
19
7
3
5
7
10
51
Lack of statistics
expertise
Lack of computer
science expertise
34
9
4
11
7
17
82
30
10
5
9
9
24
87
Lack of
climatological
expertise
46%
32%
60%
33%
58%
24%
42%
Lack of statistics
expertise
Lack of computer
science expertise
83%
41%
80%
73%
58%
40%
63%
73%
45%
100%
60%
75%
57%
68%
Table 20. Number of case according different difficulties pointed out by the respondents
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Lack of budget
56%
50%
60%
33%
50%
24%
46%
54%
45%
60%
27%
50%
19%
42%
Table 21 Percentage of respondent per WMO region to the different difficulties faced
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH
AMERICA
NORTH
AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
Do not want to change their
CDMS
14
10
1
35%
50%
25%
26
10
3
65%
50%
75%
6
46%
7
54%
6
27
64
54%
64%
49%
5
15
66
46%
36%
51%
Want to change their CDMS
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Table 22. Give the number of respondents per WMO Regional Association that do not planned to change and those who would like to change their CDMS
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH
AMERICA
NORTH
AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Existing CDMS
21
6
1
Home-Made
1
4
1
Private development
8
3
0
You do not know
2
1
1
3
1
1
3
2
8
41
1
2
10
2
2
16
3
3
13
Table 23. Number of respondents who have answered that they would like to change their CDMS and by which CDMS they would like to replace it.
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CLIMAT message
The elaboration of the CLIMAT message is still a process that is not completely automatic, even often manual. CLIREP, which is a WMO software able to generate CLIMAT
message, is used only by 3 members. CLIREP is used in Nigeria, Colombia and Cook Islands.
RA #
RA
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Not Automatic
Generated by your
CDMS
Generated by
another
software
CLIREP
SPECIFIC
NO CLIMAT
DO NOT
KNOW
27
9
4
6
5
19
70
5
4
0
2
1
1
13
3
5
0
0
2
19
29
1
0
1
0
1
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
2
1
0
4
2
1
10
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
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Table 24. Count the number of respondent according how they generate the CLIMAT message
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The CLIREP enhancements desired by the users are:
RA #
RA I
RA V
RA
AFRICA
PACIFIC
Not Automatic
NIGERIA
COOK ISLANDS
To be more friendly
Automatic Weather : Stations:
CLIMAT to be derived from the
basic met parameters of AWSs
Missing data, Can a message
be derived if there are missing
parameters during the month?
Multi-task, If more than one
CLIMAT messages, can these
be put under the same header
and sent as one message?
Table 25. The CLIREP enhancements desired by the users
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RA #
RA I
RA V
RA VI
RA
AFRICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Not Automatic
Generated by your CDMS
Generated by another software
ALGERIA
AUSTRALIA
CLIMATM
CLIMAT
CZECH REPUBLIC
MINITWIN
GERMANY
IRELAND
AMDA/ILM
CLIMSG
Home-made
Home-made
Developed by CHMI and
HASOFT
Home-made
Home-made
Table 26. Other CLIMAT message software used by WMO members
To the question “Will the process within your service that generates the CLIMAT message be ready for coding the CLIMAT messages in TDCF in November 2010?” 42
respondents, 51 %, answer “No” or “Do not know”.
RA #
RA I
RA II
RA III
RA IV
RA V
RA VI
All
RA
AFRICA
ASIA
SOUTH AMERICA
NORTH AMERICA
PACIFIC
EUROPE
Yes
NO
Do not know
10
8
1
4
3
20
46
23
7
3
7
7
12
59
6
6
1
3
1
8
25
Table 27. Answers of the respondents on their ability to code the CLIMAT message in TDCF in November 2010.
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General comments of the respondents
103 members have answered this part. To summarize: 14 subjects have been found :
Subject #
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
Title
Lack of training
Software/CDMS enhancement needed
Assistance request
Development phase
Profit of CLICOM
Lack of CDMS information
High price to acquire and maintain a CDMS
Lack of staff
Lack of equipment/hardware
Software/CDMS problem
Lack of CDMS
Lack of budget
Importance of the connection with the AMSS
Data Rescue issue
Number of case
14
13
13
12
6
4
3
3
3
3
2
1
1
1
Table 28. Subjects, and number of times that those have been addressed
See all general comments given by the respondents in annexe 5.
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Annex 1 : Frame of the questionnaire
Status of Climate
Questionnaire
Data
Management
Systems
Deadline for submission to WMO: YYYYMMDD
Further to the CLICOM project, WMO initiated in the late 1990s a Climate Database
Management System (CDMS) project to meet the varied and growing data management needs of WMO
members. Several CDMSs have been proposed to members who have had the opportunity to install
them as an operational tool.
The objectives of this questionnaire are firstly to ascertain the situation of tools used for managing
climatological data and, secondly, to assess the difficulties faced by National Meteorological and
Hydrometeorological Services (NMHSs) as well as to identify new requirements which are not fulfilled
presently.
This questionnaire is intended for NMHS and will enforce WMO projects on Climatological data
management. The questionnaire is technical and should be answered by the Database manager of the
climate system.
Thank you for taking time to complete this questionnaire which will enable WMO to provide efficient help
and effort in the CDMS project.
If you have any problems completing the questionnaire please send a message to XXXXX telephone:
XXXXXX e-mail: XXXXX
You can also download the numeric version of the questionnaire at the following address: ft://xxxxxxx.xx
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Identification
1
Name of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS).
2
Name and contact of the person who filled in this questionnaire.
Tel:
Fax:
E-Mail:
3
Name and contact information of the officer in charge of the management
of the climatological data in the NMHS.
Tel:
Fax:
E-Mail:
4
Are you using computer(s) to store and manage your climatological data?
YES
NO
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5
Are you using Relational Data Base Management System(s) (RDBMSs) for
your climatological data?
YES
6
NO
If yes, specify which RDBMS you are using.
In italic 2 example answers are shown. Just add your answer in the following free line(s) of the table.
RDBMS
e.g. DataEase
e.g. ORACLE
7
Version
5.1
9g
Version of the OS
Operating System (OS)
WINDOWS
WINDOWS 2000
LINUX
REDHAT 7
If you are NOT using a RDBMS, which software are you using to store your
climatological data?
Please precise if you are using a system based on flat files developed on your own, or based on a
commercial tool as spreadsheets. If possible please precise the version used and the Operating System
implementation with its version.
In italic 3 example answers are shown. Just add your answer in the following empty line(s) of the table.
System
Name
e.g. Spreadsheet
e.g. Flat files
e.g. Spreadsheet
Excel
“Home-made”
Open Office
Version
Excel 2000
3
Operating System
(OS)
WINDOWS
LINUX
WINDOWS
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Version of the OS
WINDOWS XP
REDHAT 7
WINDOWS VISTA
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Climate Data Management System (CDMS) in use
8
Was the CDMS you are using developed by your NMHS?
YES
9
NO
Are you using any of the following CDMS? If YES precise, if possible, the
date of its installation in your service.
CDMS name
Editor
AMS
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
CLDB
Microstep-MIS company
CLICOM
WMO
CLIDATA
Czech Republic NMHS
CLIMSOFT
Zimbabwe NMHS
CLISYS
France NMHS
CLIWARE
Russian Federation NMHS
JCDMS
Jordan NMHS
QUALIMET
Ernst Basler + Partner company
SDCLIM
Tunisia NMHS
YES Date of installation in the
service
10 If you are using other Climate Data Management Systems (not listed
previously) please specify their names and who the editors or developers
are.
CDMS name
Editor/Developer
Date of
installation in the
service
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11 Through what mechanism did you get your CDMS?
If your answer is “Through bilateral agreement” or “Purchased from a private company” please precise
the country or the company from which the CDMS has been acquired. Feel free to add other
mechanisms if needed.
Mechanism
YES
With which country or from which private
company name
Developed on your own
Through WMO
Through bilateral agreement
Purchased from a private company
You do not know
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CDMS Status
12 Is yourCDMS hardware and software fully operational?
Status
YES
Fully operational
Partially operational
Not Operational
If your answer is “Partially Operational” or “Not Operational” please make some comments (in the
following point) to explain the current situation and eventually planned actions to recover a “fully
operational” status (hardware trouble, software trouble, some functions under development, etc.)
13 Comments (if “partially operational” or “not operational” at the previous
question)
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14 are youthe functions offered by your Is your CDMS fulfilling all your
requirements?
YES
NO
15 re functions would you add or enhance on your CDMS? If yes specify them
in the following table.
16 List any difficulty you face in managing your climatological data?
Feel free to add any other mentioned difficulties if required.
Difficulty
Lack of expertise in climatological data management or on climatological practices
YES
Lack of expertise in statistics
Lack of expertise in computer science
Lack of budget (development, equipment, maintenance…)
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For NMHSs that intend to develop or migrate to a new CDMS
17 Do you plan to change your current CDMS?
YES
NO
18 If YES, what would be your future CDMS?
Future CDMS
A CDMS that already exists and that is currently distributed by a NMHS or a private company
YES
A CDMS that would be developed by yourself
A CDMS that would be developed by a private company according your specifications
You do not know yet
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Status on CLIMAT message (FM71- CLIMAT) generation
19 How do you generate your CLIMAT messages?
CLIMAT message generation type
1. Your CLIMAT messages generation is not an automatic process (generated manually
or through several processes that need human operations)
2. The CDMS you are using (e.g. CLICOM) generates your CLIMAT messages
YES
3. You have developed your own program to generate CLIMAT messages
4. You are using the CLIREP application initiated by WCP/GCOS and distributed freely by
WMO
5. You are using a specific application not developed by your institution and this
application is not CLIREP and is not part of your CDMS
6. You do not generate CLIMAT message
7. You do not know
20 If you are using the CLIREP application (answer 4 of question 19), what are
the functions or enhancements you would like to see in a future version of
CLIREP?
Function/enhancement
Explanation
21 If you are using a specific application (answer 5 of question 19), please give
details.
Name of the application
Developed by
Distributed by
Date of its installation in your organization
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CLIMAT message & WMO Migration to Table-driven Code Forms
The Fourteenth WMO Congress (2003) has confirmed that the Table-Driven Code Forms (TDCF) will
replace the Traditional Alphanumeric Codes (TAC) such as the FM71-CLIMAT.
The Table-driven Code Forms (TDCF) includes the tables driven codes:
• BUFR (Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data) and
• CREX (Character form for the Representation and EXchange of data).
BUFR is the preferred format for the future, CREX is an interim solution.
In 2003 The WMO code migration schedule planned was:
• to start operational exchange in November 2005 and
• to get to a complete migration in November 2010.
22 Will the process within your service that generates the CLIMAT message be
ready for coding the CLIMAT messages in TDCF in November 2010?
YES
NO
YOU DO NOT KNOW
References for TDCF
THE WMO TABLE DRIVEN CODES:
THE 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSAL OBSERVATION CODES
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/MigrationTDCF/Plan/Introduction_en.pdf
SUMMARY OF THE PLAN FOR MIGRATION TO TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS (TDCF)
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/MigrationTDCF/Plan/SummaryMigraPlan_en.pdf
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General comments on the CDMS
23 General comments
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Glossary and Definitions
CDMS
CLICOM
CLIMAT
CLIMAT TEMP
Climate data
Climate data
management
Climate Database Management System. A database designed to manage
climate data.
CLImate COMputing project. – A climate database developed under the
auspices of the WMO and designed to run on a DOS or Microsoft
Windows operating system.
An international computer exchange format for climate information from
defined surface observation sites. These messages are generated and
exchanged on a monthly basis between members of the WMO.
Similar to CLIMAT messages but include data from upper air
observations.
Data used to describe or understand the climate system, which may
include data corresponding to physical, chemical and biological
properties, representing atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, cryospheric
and terrestrial processes. The attributes of continuity and homogeneity
are generally given high priority.
The Management of climate data in order to provide reliable quality data
to users. Usually stored in a computerised database. The term can
include the tools that are used to provide climate products to the
customer.
CLIREP
Application for coding and decoding CLIMAT and CLIMAT TEMP messages
initiated by WCP/ GCOS (developed by RIHMI-WCD) and distributed freely by
WMO
Database
A collection of information organised in such a way that a computer
program can quickly select desired pieces of data. The information within
a database is usually interrelated.
The set of software used to develop, implement, manage and maintain
data stored in a database.
DataBase
Management
System (DBMS)
DataEase
Excel
Flat file
GCOS
Linux
NMHS
OpenOffice
Operating
System (OS)
Oracle
Platform
RDBMS
The RDBMS of the CLICOM CDMS
A spreadsheet program developed and marketed by Microsoft.
A computer readable file in which records are not connected or 'related'
Global Climate Observing System
Linux is an operating system kernel used by a family of Unix-like
operating systems
National Meteorological and Hydrological Service.
application suite available for a number of different computer operating
systems that includes a spreadsheet
The system software in a computer responsible for control and
management of hardware, system operations and processes. The
operating system controls the operation of application software such as a
word processor. The most well known operating systems for personal
computers are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS (Apple computers) and Linux.
A RDBMS produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation
In computer terminology this refers to the combination of hardware,
software and operating system that is being used. Often used to refer just
to the operating system.
Relational DataBase Management System. Often used interchangeably
with Relational Database but strictly refers to the system used to manage
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the database.
RedHat
Relational
Database
RIHMI-WCD
Spreadsheet
WCP
WMO
a major Linux distribution vendor
A database where data is stored in related tables. Data from different
tables can be retrieved or manipulated because there is a defined
relationship between the tables.
Russian Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information – World
Data Center
A type of application program which manipulates numerical and string
data in rows and columns of cells.
World Climate Programme
World Meteorological Organization.
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Annexe 2 : List of WMO members per Regional Association
RA I, AFRICA
Have answered to the
questionnaire
Date of
reception to
ET-CDMS
1. ALGERIA
2. ANGOLA
10/04/2011
Do not have
answered yet to
the questionnaire
Re-contact by mail the :
BOTSWANA
Mail 13/12/2011,
04/04/2012
Mail 13/12/2011,
04/04/2012
04/05/2012
Mail 13/12/2011,
04/04/2012
Mail 13/12/2011,
04/04/2012
Mail 13/12/2011,
04/04/2012
Mail 13/12/2011,
04/04/2012
Mail 14/12/2011
10/01/2012, 04/04/2012
Mail 14/12/2011,
04/04/2012
Mail 14/12/2011,
04/04/2012
NO MAIL
CAPE VERDE
3. BENIN
CHAD
4. BURKINA FASO
COMOROS
5. BURUNDI
24/12/2011
ERITREA
6. CAMEROON
25/04/2012
GHANA
7. CENTRAL AFRICAN
17/04/2012
LESOTHO
8.
REPUBLIC
CONGO
LIBERIA
9. COTE D'IVOIRE
SIERRA LEONE
10. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
SOMALIA
OF THE CONGO
11. DJIBOUTI
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
EGYPT
ETHIOPIA
GABON
GAMBIA
GUINEA
GUINEA-BISSAU
KENYA
LIBYAN ARAB
JAMAHIRIYA
MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
MALI
MAURITANIA
MAURITIUS
MOROCCO
MOZAMBIQUE
NAMIBIA
NIGER
NIGERIA
RWANDA
SAO TOME AND
PRINCIPE
SENEGAL
SEYCHELLES
08/04/2012
TOGO
Mail 14/12/2011,
04/04/2012
21/12/2011
9/05/2012
22/12/2011
18/10/2011
5/04/2012
18/10/2011
09/05/2012
17/02/2011
5/04/2011
22/11/2011
20/12/2011
18/10/2011
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SOUTH AFRICA
SUDAN
SWAZILAND
TUNISIA
UGANDA
UNITED REPUBLIC OF
TANZANIA
40. ZAMBIA
41. ZIMBABWE
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
21/12/2011
21/12/2011
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RA II, ASIA
Have answered
to the
questionnaire
1. BAHRAIN
Date of
reception to
ET-CDMS
19/01/2012
4. CHINA
5. HONG KONG,
CHINA
6. INDIA
7. IRAN, ISLAMIC
Re-contact by
mail the :
AFGHANISTAN, ISLAMIC STATE OF
2. BANGLADESH
3. CAMBODIA
Do not have answered to the
questionnaire
24/04/2012
REPUBLIC OF
8. JAPAN
9. KYRGYZSTAN
17/04/2012
10. KUWAIT
08/04/2012
11. LAO PEOPLE'S
16/16/01/2012
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
12. MACAO
13. MALDIVES
14. MONGOLIA
15. NEPAL
16. PAKISTAN
17. QATAR
18. REPUBLIC OF
KOREA
19. SRI LANKA
20. THAILAND
21. UZBEKISTAN
22. VIETNAM
24/01/2012
16/01/2012
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
BHUTAN
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 06/01/2012,
OF KOREA
03/04/2012
IRAQ
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
MYANMAR
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
OMAN
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
SAUDI ARABIA
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
TAJIKISTAN
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
TURKMENISTAN
Test the
10/01/2012,
03/04/2012
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
06/01/2012,
03/04/2012
YEMEN
17/04/2012
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RA III, SOUTH AMERICA
Have
Date of reception
answered to
to ET-CDMS
the
questionnaire
1
ARGENTINA
2
CHILE
COLOMBIA
questionnaire
5/01/2012,
27/02/2012
(failure),
5/01/2012,
27/02/2012
5/01/2012,
28/02/2012
5/01/2012,
28/02/2012
5/01/2012,
28/02/2012
5/01/2012,
28/02/2012
5/01/2012,
28/02/2012
BOLIVIA
BRAZIL
23/03/2012
5
ECUADOR
3
GUYANA
PARAGUAY
4
PERU
SURINAME
URUGUAY
6
VENEZUELA
Re-contact by
mail the :
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RA IV, NORTH AMERICA
Have
answered to
the
questionnaire
23. ANGUILLA
Date of reception
to ET-CDMS
questionnaire
Re-contact by
mail the :
CUBA
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
10 :01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
Mexico send a mail
the 10/04/2012
27/07/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
6/01/2012,
03/04/2012
NOT NECESSARY
24. ANTIGUA AND
GUATEMALA
BARBUDA
25. BAHAMAS
HAITI
26. BARBADOS
27/01/2012
HONDURAS
27. BELIZE
23/01/2012
JAMAICA
28. CANADA
MEXICO
29. CAYMAN
ISLANDS
30. COSTA RICA
17/01/2012
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES AND
ARUBA
NICARAGUA
31. DOMINICA
03/04/2012
PANAMA
32. DOMINICAN
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
REPUBLIC
EL SALVADOR 13/01/2012
MONTSERRAT
SAINT LUCIA
SAINT
VINCENT AND
GRENADINES
TURKS AND
CAICOS
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
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RA V, PACIFIC
Have answered
to the
questionnaire
AUSTRALIA
Date of
reception to
ET-CDMS
25/10/2011
questionnaire
Re-contact by
mail the :
6/01/2012,
10/02/2012
6/01/2012,
10/02/2012
COOK ISLANDS 13/02/2012
FEDERATED STATES OF
MICRONESIA
ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
NORTH OF THE EQUATOR
(KIRIBATI)
NIUE
BRUNEI
DARUSSALAM
13/02/2012
FIJI
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
1.
2.
3.
4.
INDONESIA
16/02/2012
TIMOR-LESTE
5.
MALAYSIA
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
TONGA
NEW ZEALAND
PHILIPPINES
SAMOA
SINGAPORE
SOLOMON
11. ISLANDS
12. VANUATU
6/01/2012,
10/02/2012
6/01/2012,
10/02/2012
6/01/2012,
10/02/2012
6/01/2012,
10/02/2012
25/01/2012
9/01/2012
06/03/2012
14/03/2012
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Have answered
to the
questionnaire
1. ALBANIA
Date of reception
to ET-CDMS
questionnaire
Re-contact by
mail the :
AZERBAIJAN
5/01/2012,
3/04/2012
5/01/2012,
3/04/2012
5/01/2012
3/04/2012
5/01/2012
3/04/2012
5/01/2012
3/04/2012
Assimilated to
France
5/01/2012
3/04/2012
6/01/2012
3/04/2012
04/05/2012
2. ARMENIA
CROATIA
3. AUSTRIA
FINLAND
4. BELARUS
06/01/2012
ICELAND
5. BELGIUM
31/01/2012
LEBANON
6. BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA
7. BULGARIA
MONACO
8. CYPRUS
UKRAINE
9. CZECH
REPUBLIC
10. DENMARK AND
FAROE ISLANDS
11. ESTONIA
12. FRANCE
13. FYR OF
MACEDONIA
14. GEORGIA
15. GERMANY
16. GREECE
17. HUNGARY
18. IRELAND
19. ISRAEL
20. ITALY
21. JORDAN
22. KAZAKHSTAN
23. LATVIA
24. LITHUANIA
25. LUXEMBOURG
26. MALTA
27. MONTENEGRO
28. NETHERLANDS
29. NORWAY
30. PORTUGAL
31. REPUBLIC OF
MOLDOVA
32. ROMANIA
33. RUSSIAN
FEDERATION
(IN EUROPE)
34. SERBIA
35. SLOVAKIA
36. SLOVENIA
37. SPAIN
38. SWEDEN
39. SWITZERLAND
AND
POLAND
03/05/2012
13/01/2012
23/01/2012
11/01/2012
05/04/2012
27/04/2012
23/01/2012
06/01/2012
27/02/2012
16/01/2012 (WMO
letter)
10/01/2012
10/01/2012
02/04/2012
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40. SYRIA
41. TURKEY
42. UNITED
KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN
AND
NORTHERN
IRELAND
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Annexe 3 : comments given by respondents who have answered that
their systems are partially operational or not operational
RA I
ALGERIE
ANGOLA
BENIN
BURKINA FASO
²CAMEROON
CENTRAL AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
CONGO
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF THE
CONGO
ETHIOPIA
GABON
GUINEA
Clicom est installé dans plus de 78 stations météorologiques. Les tâches
principales sont :D’assurer la saisie des données tri horaires et quotidiennes.
L’élaboration du message Climat. Le contrôle des données. Le système de
gestion de la base de données relationnelle (SGBDR) DateEase 2.53 n’est
pas utilisé. Les données synoptiques saisies avant l’acquisition du système
clicom(1989) sont en train d’être recontrôlées (periode : 1953-1991).
Problème de logiciel
le système de gestion des données climatologiques en cours d’exploitation, à
savoir clicom-3.0 peut être considéré comme partiellement fonctionnel pour
les raisons suivantes : Clicom -3.0 fonctionne uniquement sous windows 98,
en conséquence le système ne s’exécute que sur une seule et vieille machine
( PC acquis en 1999 au titre du PVC de l’OMM).Certains produits souvent
requis par les usagers ne peuvent être générés.
Mauvais fonctionnement du serveur, Arrêts momentannés de temps à autre
suite à des défffaillances du fonctionnement des ventilateurs internes. Il faut
un fonctionnement simultanné d’au moins 4 ventilateurs sur les 6 au total pour
que le système tourne correctement.
Absence de pc, les anciens PC contenant les données saisies sous CLICOM
sont hors service depuis plusieurs années. Le programme d'adaptation aux
changements financé par le Japon a promis d'acheter un serveur plus
quelques postes clients pour la repreise de la saisie des données
climatologiques
Les troubles militaro-politiques survenus en RCA (1996-2003) ont été la
cause de la destruction du Système de Gestion de la Base des données qui
utilisait le système CLICOM.Aujourd’hui (2011-2012), le logiciel «EXCEL»
utilisé en ce moment pour la saisie des données est installé sur un seul microordinateur, ancien modèle, vétuste et inopérationnel. La saisie numérique des
données n’est donc pas régulière. Il n’y a aucun système de contrôle
automatique des données.Il n’existe pas d’autres supports d’archivages et de
protection des données.C’est tout le Système qui devrait être renouvelé et
modernisé.
Le système fonctionne partiellement à cause des difficultées d’utilisation.
Après l’exportation des fichiers.txt des données par l’élaboration des
requêtes, la mise des données dans les bases intermédiaire et principale
nous pose très souvent des problèmes. La récurence de ce problème ne
permet pas l’exploitation optimale du système.
Problème des ordinateurs qui ont veillis et d’anti virus qui n’est pas à jour
suite au manque de connexion Internet. On se prépare pour l’achat des anti
virus et le rénouvellement des machines.
Previously we were using CLIDATA Data Base Management System. But it
failed to work and we are unable to fix the problem. But currently we are in the
process of getting CLIDATA again with the help of WMO
¼ Ordinateur est opérationnel, Manque de connexion internet dans le service
;Absence de moyen de déplacement pour récupérer les documents à
l’ASECNA, Manque de logitiel de traitement des données climatologiques,
Etat de délabrement des stations météorologiques, Manque de moyen de
communication.
Le CLICOM a été opérationnel de 1989 à 2007 l’année à laquelle le serveur a
eu des problèmes et les 2 postes de saisie sont tombées en panne. Le
personnel est bien formé pour son exploitation efficiente. Il fonctionne
actuellement sur un poste individuel. Le CLIDATA a été partiellement installé
et le personnel n’est pas suffisamment bien formé pour son utilisation.
L’importation des données de CLICOM à CLIDATA reste un problème
entier.Le CLIMSOFT quant à lui, le personnel est en début de formation par
des experts ayant développé l’outil de gestion (Abdoul Aziz BARRY).
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MADAGASCAR
MALAWI
MALI
MAURITANIA
NAMIBIA
NIGER
NIGERIA
SENEGAL
SEYCHELLES
SWAZILAND
Le disque dur contenant le SE est endommagé
SOME OPERATIONS ARE NOT POSSIBLE ON SOME OF THE
TERMINALS2. ALL THE DATA CANNOT BE RETRIEVED, NOT POSSIBLE
TO H AVE SOME PRODUCTS FROM THE SYSTEM3. LACK OF SUPPORT
FROM SYSTEM DEVELOPERS4. DATA FROM AUTOMATIC WEATHER
STATIONS (AWSs) CANNOT BE INJESTED EASILY5. LOOKS LIKE THE
SYSTEM IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Pourque le Système soit entièrement fonctionnel, il faut :Le perfectionnement
des administrateurs du système. La formation des agents de saisie pour la
constitution d’une base de données fiables. Du matériel et équipements
informatiques performants.
Le manque de perfectionnement en utilisation de CLIDATA et le faible accès
au manuel d’utilisation à cause de différence de langue et de l’utilisation
massive des termes scientifiques et des abréviations en anglais.
L’inadéquation des anciens systèmes avec le nouveau matériel informatique
(le CLICOM est fonctionnel sur le Windows 2000 qui n’existe pas
actuellement). Le niveau de formation des agents de saisie et des techniciens
en matière de gestion des données climatiques est très limité.
Clidata partially operational largely due to staff inadequacies. Until January
this year, the core staff for climate data management functions were all
meteorological observers. These inadequacies will be addressed by
progressively deploying higher category technicians and meteorologists, as
well as by further training in both operations and system administration.
Nous faisons face aux coupures répétitives d’électricité. La saisie et la gestion
des données avec CLIDATA sont momentanément arrêtées par défaut de
l’onduleur tombé en panne. Il n’y a non plus pas de disques externes de
sauvegarde des données. Le disque dur du serveur actuellement utilisé est
plein, ce qui nous limite dans l’archivage des données. Nous sommes
actuellement à la recherche d’un deuxième serveur et d’un onduleur puissant
pour débloquer notre situation.
Incompatibility of windows with some of the clicom modules, e.g. the
CLIGRAF. The planned action is to migrate to CLIDATA. The project is now
ongoing
Clidata a été installé et a fonctionné pendant plusieurs années sur un serveur
qui est tombé en panne en 2010. Un nouveau serveur a été acquis par
l’Agence nationale de la Météorologie (ANAMS), sur lequel une nouvelle
installation a été réalisée. La reconfiguration du système est en cours. Les
données géographiques du module « Metadonnées » ont été largement
restaurées. Certaines données qui avaient été sauvegardées sous format
EXCEL ou ASCII sont en cours de restauration par transferts directs dans la
table Rdata_n. Par contre, le paramétrage des contrôles de qualités, le
module GIS, etc. ne sont pas encore entirement fonctionnels, ce qui ne
permet pas (pour le moment) la saisie des données sous Clidata. En
attendant, cette saisie se poursuit sous fichiers Excel.
Seychelles NMHS do not have any CDMS installed. Climatic data are
presently being stored in Excel spreadsheets. We use to have a staff who
attended a workshop organized by WMO on CLIMSOFT, but upon his
returned to the country together with the software he never pass on the
knowledge to other colleagues and today he’s no longer working with the
service and the software also is not available.
Loss of human ressource led to loss of capacity to fully utilise the system.
Currently data is in key entry forms ready for upload into the main
climatological database management system. The meteorological service has
since contact Meteo France International for capacity building and system
upgrade which is expected to be operational by September 2010.
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UGANDA
HARDWARE:
Hardware are operating with very minor problems which can be handled
localy.
SOFTWARE
Operating Systems.Windows Family from 1995 to XP have been used
successfully to run CLICOM and CLIMSOFT due to availability of the local
expertise. The two CDMS have not run on the higher versions of windows like
Vista . CLIMSOFT started with windows 2000.
CDMSs:
(a)CLICOM version3.0 is currently running on stand-alone PCs on windows
XP with DataEase at its backend . However its not running in a server
environment. Problems: When we tried to update the stationgeog,
Stationbservation and stationelement files, they could not load any more
information on them. Intallation disketts failed to install on other PCs to run
CLICOM in Feb this year, Prior to that, Clicom was being installed on
standalone PCs and was running successfully.
Installation files still on disketts are not autorun installation,but its manual.
CLICOM IS SUCH a robust system that even installation done in the 1998 on
windows1995 was still running until such time when the hardware parts failed.
But CLICOM has not been upgraded since 2000.
UNITED REPUBLIC OF Sorting facility (COSORT) is out of order. CLICOM is no longer supported by
TANZANIA
WMO, the software is DOS based.
ZAMBIA
HARDWARE – The computers that are being used have no provisions for
memory sticks and they have no CD writers because they are very old. They
use floppies for data transfer and storage.SOFTWARE – The CLICOM being
used is 3.0. This software does not run on Windows XP operating systems.
We also do not have installation disks. CLICOM is not easy to install
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CAMBODIA
Previously, I had studied Climsoft at Hochimin in 2007 and Climate Pridication
Tools (CPT), 2009 at Vietnam and Indonesia, 2011. As above mention is very
specifict, but Cambodia is very late to prepare and operate these processes.
INDIA
KYRGYZSTAN
LAO PEOPLE'S
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
Presently, Cambodia Government including Ministry of Water Resources and
Meteorology and Department of Meteorology are preparing and its process
will be operated in the up coming.
installation in progress
In 1996 on Voluntary cooperation program of WMO it received the CLICOM
program. It was using till then ceased to function magneto-optical device
where was stored CLICOM data and system.
In 2005 on Voluntary cooperation program of WMO it received the computer
equipment for “CLIWARE” system, as well as ORACLE data base.
Kyrgyzhydromet reapitedly referd to WMO (№252 от 09.03.2005, №655 от
23.06.2005, №32 от 12.01.2009) with requests to assist in receiving
“CLIWARE” system, and carrying out of courses on software and hardware
for “CLIWARE” system and working on ORACLE data base for our specialists.
But we don’t receive response on this requsts up to the present time.
DMH lao PDR was using CLICOM since 1996 until 2006 and since that time
Hadware and software was not working properly. During that time WMO tried
to repair and updated the hardware and software, but some year later is
stoped to work.
So, DMH Lao PDR would like to request WMO to reinstall CLICOM or
other..what is available for data management in DMH.
MALDIVES
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
SRI LANKA
The Requirement with VCP letter also sent to WMO since 2006.
Not working due to some Ms Access file problem, Need to train more staff on
the software, Need to make the software work within a network, Need to train
the technical staff on the software. (troubleshoot ect)
The GWbasic based system is simple but rigid. It has functionality to enter
daily data for elements like Rainfall, Temperature, Sunshine, Wind, Humidity,
Evaporation, Soiltemperature. Some of the limitation of this system are: It is
not possible to enter data at subdaily interval.Not possible to enter data for
other elements.Not Possible to import data for text file or ASCII files.Very
limited Quality control procedures.It might be possible to add these feature by
writing new scripts that require devoting considerable time in development.
But since this is not relational DBMS we are planning to migrate to some other
RDBMs in future.
Due to financial constraint, PMD is finding it difficult to purchase fully functional & developed CDMS
hardware and Software.
CLICOM is running in DOS. It cannot run in windows operating system.As we
do not have computers with DOS operating system, we cannot maintain
CLICOM system in future effectively
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CHILE
COLOMBIA
GUYANA
PERU
Se esta iniciando la puesta en Operacion. Presentan problemas diferentes
funcionlidades del software que etan en proceso de correccion, para luego
pasar a la fasz de prueba de usuario. Terminada las pruebas de usuario se
pondra en operacion nueva version.
Our CDMS don’t have enough climatological data information for all stations. We, IDEAM, are
jobbing on to do validation of the information for all stations.
CLIMAT messages are developed manually since we have problems with
CLICOM.
El Servidor de Base de Datos se encuentra operativo pero en su máxima
capacidad de procesamiento y almacenamiento.No se cuenta con un equipo
dedicado a los procesos de restauración de Base de Datos.Se tiene
limitaciones de licencias para el desarrollo de las copias de seguridad de la
base de datos.Existen problemas con el abastecimiento de energía eléctrica
en la sala de servidores.No se cuenta con un servidor de aplicaciones para el
óptimo uso de los sistemas desarrollados.
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BAHAMAS
We are in the process of developing a proper GUI interface to the RDBMS.
Upon completion, all Spreadsheet stored data will be transferred to the
RDBMS. CLIMSOFT was used as the prototype since a majority of our
systems ran Unix/Linux
CURRENTLY OUR APPLICATION IS WRITTEN IN PASCAL AND IT DOES
NOT PRINT TO USB PRINTERS, ONLY PARALLEL PRINTERS.
Clicom- NMHS of Belize DBMS is CLICOM and DATAEASE. However in
October 2011 for some unknown reason when you enter the CLICOM
program and you select the DataEase function to export the data into an excel
file, CLICOM is giving an error message saying “application not found. Its
suspected that either a file is missing/corrupt or CLICOM is not linking to the
DataEase. So right now only input, validation and quality control can be done
with CLICOM, Data cannot be loaded into DataEase.
Climsoft- that is used to manupilate data from Clicom is also corrupt.
BARBADOS
BELIZE
DBCLIMA a new soft ware created by INSIVUMEH will be used to link data
from Clicom into the Regional Climate Data Base (BDCAC).
Need s its own database.
Clicom fully operational in Grand Cayman. Climsoft not fully operational Grand
Cayman. Climsoft fully operational Cayman Brac.
DOMINICA
Climsoft was installed but was problematic in the initial phase and was
discontinued.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC La base de datos funciona muy bien, pero no podemos realizar BACKUP
(respaldo de seguridad de las datos) de forma correcta y hemos tenido que
usar otra alternativa para poder hacer nuestro respaldo de seguridad. Otro
problema es que no podemos crear nuevos usuarios para alimentar la base
de datos.
MONTSERRAT
Presently Climotological Data is stored ‘electronicaly’ in spreadsleets
mimicking old climoforms. This is static and does aid in manipulation of the
stored data. Information gathering here is done manually.
SAINT LUCIA
The software crashed very often and there was no technical support available
SAINT VINCENT AND Some software components are not working properly – this due to inadequate
GRENADINES
time to figure out/work through errors as other office duties take priority.
Example of forms not being usedL1)runtime error trapping by climsoft _library
at set _connection(one element for the whole month) (2)runtime error trapping
by climsoft _library at input_form(data for some elements for one day)
(3)climsoft_library error reporting system… sequence field not found in the
primary recordset Field=time…etc.(hourly wind data). At present, the
Caribbean synoptic data for many elements for one observation time is in full
use and works well
CAYMAN ISLAND
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FIJI
INDONESIA
PHILIPPINES
The version of CLICOM used by Fiji Meteorological Service is only compatible
with Windows 98 Operating System. Therefore, the system is not operational
on most of the computers in the Department.Injestion of data into CLICOM
from Automated Weather Stations is not automatic and needs manual input.
This task is quite labour intensive.
The system has not completely finished, according to the schedule it will be
completed at the end of 2013 and will fully operational next 2014. It still need
to provide a new hardware at station i.e. workstation. We plan to integrate all
the data come from station and automatic instrument.
Current database works only on DOS operating system and need to be
migrated to a more robust data management system that can integrate all
available information from radar, satellite,aws data as well as data from
manual observations.
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ARMENIA
Dataeas can not storage and manage a huge amount of data (max 20 mln
rows). Lack of technical tools to have online data access from observation
network.
Nous sommes encore en cours de développement des scripts d’exploitation
des données climatologiques pour répondre aux demandes des clients.
BELGIUM
CYPRUS
DENMARK
GREECE
ITALY
LUXEMBOURG
PORTUGAL
SERBIA
SYRIA
FYR MACEDONIA
La réponse postive à la question 14 signifie qu’à terme (2 ans environ) notre
CDMS devrait nous fournir l’ensemble des services standard escomptés et
permettre de nouveaux développements.
Synoptic and upper air observations are not included in the ENVIS database
GIS facilities not available Statistical tools not available
Servers are operational. Datafeed are supported only during officehours. We
have planned the steps to make it fully operational in 2011-2012
SYSTEM OPERATING WITH MINOR PROBLEMS DUE TO INSUFFICIENT
BANWIDTH OF HNMS INFRASTRUCTURE.
Our CDMS (web-application on LAMP platform) is characterized by the
following functionalities, some of them at moment not fully operating (still in a
developing phase):WMO data (TAC and TDCF message type) ingest;not
WMO formats data ingest; meteorological station metadata management;
availability catalogue generation; quality control procedures; validity checks;
statistical processing; graphical processing; climate indices production; output
generation
During the implementation period some minor bugs have been identified. MFI
and SML is taking action.
The current version of CDMS is not fully adapted to the operational needs for
Luxembourg. Amendments are in progress.
Data gaps have been analyzed and have to be updated.
An outdated archiving system, which does not allow for all the current needs
of climate data.
CLIDATA system is in use to store most of the data. However, QC procedures
are performd during the phase of raw data files through described no rdbms
files.
Needs more queries & reports and data minimg with hourly and daily and
monthly data; Needs homogeneity functions and estimate; needs
agroclimatological functions
The problems emerged after reinstall the CLIDATA on new PC with OS
WINDOWS Server 2003. Not working properly: part for automation of data
import in CLIDATA; components for CLIDATA GIS; wind rose plotting
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RA I
Le clicom est utilisé en Algérie comme Acquire a DBMS
support de saisie et de contrôle de
données non pas comme un système
SGBDR. Un grand pas a été réalisé
dans l’informatisation de nos données
(toutes nos données du réseau
synoptique (77 stations) sont
informatisées depuis 1936). En ce
moment même et avec le projet
MEDARE nous sommes entrain de
contrôler et saisir nos anciennes
données depuis 1856 pour les stations
climatologiques et pluviométriques
(Températures extrêmes et
précipitations).
Notre système de gestion des données More products
2. BENIN
climatologiques ( CLICOM) présente
naturellement quelques lacunes. les
fonctions à améliorer concernent
principalement:la generation de
produits spécifiques souvent sollicités
par certains usagers et les chercheurs.
Non, mais nous souhaitons que le
Server/Client possibilities
3. BURKINA
système fonctionne sur poste de travail
FASO
pour éviter les défaillances du serveur.
4. BURUNDI
OUI, LE SMHN DU BURUNDI
Powerful CDMS
AIMERAIT AVOIR UN AUTRE
SYSTÈME PLUS PERFOMANT DANS
L’ANALYSE DES DONNEES
CLIMATOLOGIQUE, COMME
CLIMSOFT OU CLIDATA POUR UNE
BONNE AMELIORATION DANS LA
GESTION DE LA BASE DE DONNEE.
Nous n’avons pas expérimenté toutes Network between PCs is needed
5. CONGO
les fonctions. D’autre part, travaillant
sur le mono poste de travail, il nous
paraît diffcile de procéder à la fusion
des fichiers saisis dans des postes de
travail différents.
6. DEMOCRATIC Jusque là le système de mprésente
REPUBLIC OF pas de lacune
THE CONGO
1. ALGERIE
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7. EGYPT
8. GABON
9. GAMBIA
(1) CDMS has sophisticated
mechanisms, procedures or algorithms
for temporal and spatial consistency of
data, and data homogeneity. (2) CDMS
has high security mechanisms that
consider the lowest level of security
applied a climatic data unit is a 5dimensional climatic data units
(location (station), time (observation
date), meteorological parameter).
Three dimensions to location, one
dimension to time, one dimension to
the parameter. (3) Extending CDMS to
include all data resources
(meteorological data Or related data)
to the classic data resources (such as
satellite images, Ozone, …..etc). (4)
CDMS has a mechanism to establish a
user-defined reports or has an API
layer to allows the developers to
establish user-defined reports through
their applications. (5) CDMS satisfies
all text, graphical reports that exist in
WMO publication number 100 ( Guide
to climatological practices). (6) CDMS
has a scheduling module that allows to
system administrator to automate
some/all climatic tasks such as
calculation, quality control, …(7)
CDMS has a module that supports Ecommerce. (8) CDMS has a module
can notify the administrator about
query tracing, that is , there is a
mechanism that records and tell us the
answers for questions Who / What /
Where / How ? with respect to climatic
data query. (9) CDMS has a rich set of
filters to optimize search for data
manipulation, monitoring,
logging,…(10) CDMS has a highly
qualified user interface to manipulate
rejected climatic data during loading
process. (11) CDMS considers all
climatic data in an unified perspective
for all climatic data types as fivedimensional data units (location
(station), time (observation date),
meteorological parameter). Three
dimensions to location, one dimension
to time, one dimension to the
parameter.
Réhabilitation totale du Réseau météo Stations network rehabilitation
national existant; Création des stations Strenthening of the IT equipment
climato, agrométéo et hydrométéo ;
Internet possibility
Renforcement de l’équipement
New software
informatique ; Connexion à l’Internet ; Training
Acquisition de logitiels de gestion de
données climato ; Recrutement,
Formation et Récyclage des Agents
météo ; Moyen de locomotion ; Moyen
de communication.
Need another CDM (e.g CLIDATA)
New system needed
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Pour le CLIDATA et le CLIMSOFT il
Hardware
faut réinstaller les systèmes et former New CDMS
le personnel d’exploitation et
New training
d’Administration. Pour cela, il faut à
l’amont trouver les équipements
appropriés à ce genre d’exercice.
11. GUINEAAppuer le SMN sur la formation des
Training
BISSAU
personnelles responsables de base
des données climatologiques à ce qui
concerne l’utlisation des logiciels tels
que CLIDATA, CLIMSOFT et CLICOM
pour permettre d’avoir le systéme de
base données complet.
TDCF capability, FTP and SMTP
TDCF capacity
12. KENYA
Connectivity
13. MADAGASCAR A ajouter Un Système d’Information
SIG
Géographique. SIG
14. MALAWI
1. THE SYSTEM MUST HAVE A Data Acquisition
FACILITY TO
Data Products
AUTOMATICALLY INGEST
Software security (Virus)
DATA FROM AUTOMATIC
Data decentralization
WEATHER STATIONS.
2. IMPROVE DATA/ PRODUCTS
RETRIEVAL FACILITY
3. REDUCE THE SYSTEM’S
SUSCEPTABILITY TO VIRUS
NEED TO DECENTRALISE DATA
ENTRY TO BE DONE RIGHT AT THE
STATION.
Dans le cadre de l’exploitation du
Graphics products
15. MALI
système de gestion de dase de
ETP
données climatologiques, un certain
Data Control
nombre de préocupations identifiées Data Reconstruction
reste non résolu à savoir :La sortie des
tableaux et des graphiques ;Le calcul
de l’évapotranspiration potentielle (
ETP) ;Le comblement ou le rattrapage
des données manquantes à partir des
méthodes géostatistiques ;La
possibilité de fixer le nombre des
premières valeurs extrêmes ; Le
contrôle de qualité (non systématique
des données).
16. MAURITANIA plusieurs paramètres ne sont pas bien General Software enhancement
introduit dans le CLIDATA : le CLICOM
est dévenu en inadequation avec les
nouveaux systèmes d'exploitation Ce
système a montré des défaillances qui
n’ont pas pu etre resolu ;le CLIMBASE
est fait uniquement pour les besoins
Agro-climatologiques ;Dépuis la mise
en place de la nouvelle installation en
2008 aucune formation de
perfectionnement n'a eu lieux ;
CLIDATA, des difficultés de sortie des
données et des requêtes. des
difficultés d’exploitation de ce logiciel
sont apparus et doivent trouver une
solution par la formation notamment
par le fournisseur.
10. GUINEA
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17. MAURITIUS
Inlcude a statistical package for the
Statistics
manipulation and handling of data
delivery tailored for specific customers,
research scientists or foreign
companies for climate change studies
There is a lack of production tools such Production tools
18. MOROCCO
as IDF, contour plots ..The software
GIS
does not allow interaction with other
softwares such as GIS.To add new
products in the software require a high
level of expertise in computer
science.The software is 2 tiers and
need to be upgraded to 3 tiers
technology.
19. MOZAMBIQUE Quality control, Production of maps
Data Control
and tables
Products
Maps
For clidata More user-friendly dataData retrieval
20. NAMIBIA
entry More training on data retrieval
Graphics
options (SQL, Discoverer ..) More on
graphical products Detailed
documentation (manuals, inclusive of
E-R diagrams or equivalent -- Contacts
with vendor planned
Les fonctions pour faire
CLIMAT message
21. NIGER
automatiquement le message CLIMAT ETP
. Les fonctions pour le calcul direct de
l'ETP. Les fonctions de calcul de la
radiation globale théorique
22. NIGERIA
CLICOM IS NOW OUTDATED
New CDMS
23. RWANDA
On aurait souhaité que le
New CDMS
développement de CLICOM ne soit
pas complètement abandonné pour
qu’il puisse fonctionner sous les
nouveaux Systèmes d’Exploitation
avec facilité d’utilisation des tableurs
de MS Office.
24. SENEGAL
Améliorer la fonction "Inventaires des Data Inventory
données"
Data products
Ajouter des produits à la fonction
GIS
"Produits" (ex: indices climatiques)
Data control
Incorporer de façon systématque le
module GIS au système CLIDATA
pour la
spatialisation des données
Améliorer la programmation des
contrôles de qualité (CQ)
De façon, générale, rendre le système
plus convivial
NO, so far
25. SUDAN
26. SWAZILAND No, a preview of the expected upgrade
showed a lot of improvements and
ease of use, including a product
generation.
27. TUNISIA
Procédure de production des
messages CLIMAT, Procédure de
production des produits graphiques.
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28. UGANDA
FUNCTIONS
Graphics
Data Control
SORTING FX IN CLIMSOFT
GENERATE META DATA SERIES IN
A GRAHPICAL FORM.
USER FUNCTION REQUIREMENTS
FOR QUALITY CONTROL CHECKS
LISTED
Level 1check: at the key entry and
validation level include
Range checks,
Total checks,
Relationship checks,
Repeat checks,
Allow upper and lower set of quality
control limits
Rates of change for temperatures and
pressures,
Location checks using WMO
nomenclature
Level 2 check: at advanced
processing level where some errors
could not be detected early
Consistency checks
Conformity to 2sigma of annual and
monthly RF
Spatial checks
Zero consistency checks
29. ZAMBIA
MANY OTHER FUNCTIONS ARE
ALREADY EXISTING IN THE 2
CDMSs BUT NEED JUST
FINETUNING
Number of Rainy days to be added,
Graphical data format to be
incoporated, Calculation of dry / wet
spell to be added
Products
Graphics
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RA II
CHINA
HONG KONG, CHINA
IRAN
KUWAIT
NEPAL
SRI LANKA
Data retrival, data management, data and metadata update, metadata
editor, other data service functions
We would like to enhance our CDMS on the finctions of quality checking
and report generation
New CDMS coming
We have sufficient tools to access and analyse our CDMS data holdings.
eq. IDL, PVWave, specialised and locally developed report generators,
standard SQL etc. In addition we have a robust Quality Management
System (QMS) which directly interacts with our CDMS. The main issue we
face however, is not the CDMS or it functions but rather lack of human
resources to make full use of the abiilities provided by our system.
The limitations mentionned in Q13 above need to be overcomed but it is
better to migrate to a RDBMS
CLIMSOFT output reports cannot be fitted into 1 or 2 pages, as in
CLICOM. Therefore, CLIMSOFT outputs formats should be changed
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RA III
ARGENTINA
CHILE
GUYANA
PERU
El SMN cuenta con una base de datos Oracle 9i (UNIX). En la misma
estan guardados los datos climaticos y permite distintos tipos de
consultas de los mismos. En cuanto a la utilizacion de software de
gestion de la datos tal como CLICOM, en el SMN dicho programa se
utilizo en un periodo pasado pero se descontinuo su uso. Normalmente,
se trabajan los datos con software comerciales como Excel o a traves de
scrip por ejemplo en R. La idea en la gestion de la datos climatico es
optimizar la interface Oracle con programas como el R o bien , anadir
funciones en la base misma. En la actiulidad se sacan listados de
frecuencias, maximos, minimos, promedios mensuales o anuales.
Ingreso de datos desde Estaciones Automaticas. Incorporar nuevas
funcionalidades para consistencia de datos.
CLICOM CDMS needs to be updated to work with any windowss
operating system. Need a user guide which is user friendly for all levels
of users. The database is very old and certainly needs to be upgraded.
Funcionamiento de los Sistemas a través de la Web para una mayor
disponibilidad de la información climática al usuario final.
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RA IV
ANGUILLA
BAHAMAS
BARBADOS
BELIZE
CANADA
COSTA RICA
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MONTSERRAT
SAINT LUCIA
To be able to retrieve selected data at random. Enhanced storage
capacity.
TDCF (both CREX and BUFR)
WE WOULD LIKE IT HAVE A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND
ABILITY TO AUTO UPLOAD SPECIFIED CLIMAT DATA TO OUR
WEBSERVER ROUTINELY DEFINED BY US IN THE GUI.
CDMS Add a function that would allow data to be download from
automatic weather Stations into CDMS.
Program that would allow information to pass from Satellite directly into
CDMS
We would like to have a more friendly user system.
We would like to have CDMS that is link to Caribbean, Central America ,
Mexico and the United States.
incorporate better Data Management principles from data acquisition
through to archiving and final product generation; build an enhanced
automated quality assurance component and incorporate more
comprehensive QA/QC throughout the lifecycle of the data; create a
system which emphasizes real-time data processing and data delivery;
consolidate the encoders, decoders and message types used to move
data internally through the system; utilize internationally accepted
standards for internal/external information exchange (XML, ISO 19115,
TDCF, etc.); modernization of hardware and software with emphasis on
system reliability, ease of maintenance; expand number of reported
parameters and metadata gathered; sensor redundancy and
improvements to data derivation, especially in regards to precipitation
Our system are developed by us, where constantly make innovations
Poder crear los usarios, para asi poner definir los roles de cada usuario.
De modo que esten bien definidas las functiones de cada usuario en la
base de datos. Esta institution no esta utilizando el CLIREP y deseamos
inclurirlo en nuestra SBDC. Tambien necesitariamos entrenamiento para
el uso del CLIREP.
Have climotological data stored in a database
Retrieval of data/info in multiple formats.Availability of resources (webbased, etc) for technical support
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RA V
AUSTRALIA
BRUNEI
FIJI
INDONESIA
MALAYSIA
NEW ZEALAND
PHILIPPINES
SAMOA
VANUATU
There are a number of aspects that we'd look at improving in moving
towards an Australian Archive for Meteorology (ADAM) v2.
Some examples are:
- record values for multiple tiers of quality assurance, from raw records
through to a high quality hogenised network;
- record details of intellectual property rights on data stored within the
CDMS;
- support future crowd sourced data, 3rd party data, as well as higher
quality Bureau network data;
- allow for point-in-time data extraction e.g. 'What data was current in the
RDBMS as at time x?';
- allow for recording of data provenance (WMO Core Profile of ISO 19115,
stations metadata, through to changes to records over time);
- allow for tracing what data was used to produce what report or
downstream product;
- support integrated spatial and time series management;
- review the data model used. Perhaps base ADAM v2 on the ISO
Observations and Measurements model (ISO 19156);
- add apects required to support a future open spatial standards data
interoperability application schema, e.g. CSML 3.0;
- managing gridded data; and allow for semantics to support Linked Data.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF REPLACING OUR CDMS WITH
MODERN RELATIONAL CDMS (MESSIR-CLIM CLIMATE DATA
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – COROBOR, FRANCE).
Ablilty to store non-standard AWS, river gauge and other related
meteorological data.Ability to automatically injest FIMS (Fiji Intergrated
Meteorological System) data as presently manually entered into
CLICOM.Abilitly to automatically generate GCOS (Global Climate
Oberserving Sations) Messages from database to users. Ability to draw
wind rose diagrams.Ability to produce graphical output of climate data
The system has just been developed at the middle of 2011 and scheduled
finish next 2013, so we can not say “we are statisfied or not” with the
function of my CDMS, but so far we feel satisfy with our target.
Yes, as in the new system CLIDATA
Automated quality control precedures. Annual auditing of data. Enhanced
Metada.
Yes, we need a new CDMS that can provide a web-based information
system that has the capability for online data payment.
Data Quality Assurance of observations from Automatic Weather Stations
Need a wide range of outputs/graphs reports to display different
parameters – current version has limited options
Need to display more climate parameters rather than just rainfall and
temperature.
Be more user friendly; can write own request instead of fix request option;
easy to edit data
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RA VI
ARMENIA
AUSTRIA
BELARUS
BELGIUM
BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA
CYPRUS
DENMARK
ESTONIA
FRANCE
FYR OF MACEDONIA
GERMANY
IRELAND
ISRAEL
ITALY
JORDAN
LATVIA
LUXEMBOURG
NETHERLAND
NORWAY
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
capability and features of system and CDMS (metadata, data-entry,
quality controls, data export-import). Analyses of the different products
(daily, decadal and monthly tables, extreme values). Easy export into
different formats. Simple management of metadata. More safely loading
of data from key-entry file into database. Double key-entry. Direct connect
to GIS
To complete the new design of all climate tables (data + metadata) until
2014
We are satisfied with all functions of CLIVAR
La principale lacune actuelle est l’absence d’un outil graphique
performant lié au CDMS.
(1) We would like that Quality control can make cross check of
Climatological data with met. Phenomena. (2) Manual or Help file should
be more comprehensive
Synoptic and upper air observations; Metadata; Quality Control
Procedures; GIS facilities; Automatic weather station data; Provide
climatological information through internet; Read Time observations from
AWS; Statistical Tools
It is under continuous development
More automated quality control tools would be efficient
DATA CONTROL
Localization, possibility of print report
We would like to integrate OGC webservices and improve the web access
to the climate database
Modernise user interfaces; Extend QC systems.
Graphical representation of climate variables.GIS as a platform to
represent climate data .
to extend data ingest and processing to all kind of meteorological datasets
and products of climatological interest; to record data changes after QC
and to store the most recent QC results process; to maintain a copy of the
original observations that are replaced during the QC processto extend
data ingest and processing to all kind of meteorological datasets and
products of climatological interest; to record data changes after QC and to
store the most recent QC results process; to maintain a copy of the
original observations that are replaced during the QC process
We need to upgrade the application to digest data from AWS and to be
able to produce CLIMAT and CLIMAT TEMP
Creation of the forms for pluviograph, frozen deposit events, especially
hazardous phenomena current data loading
BUFR code decoding
Calculation of the standard deviation
There are following functions/tools that should be added or expanded to
the CDMS:
Statistics tool
Descriptive statics
Time series analysis (including trend analysis)
Homogenization
Extrem value analysis
Charts
Hovmoeller plots (e.g. time/time)
We find it difficult to keep our CDMS internally consistent and it is difficult
to have consistent relations between the various temporal resolutions of
the data (mainly 10 minutes vs. 1 hour)
Extension to grid CDMS; Prototype on PostgreSQL, LINUX.
We would like to replace the current CDMS by a new one with more
integrated capabilities and functions and more friendly-user.
The present situation is that CDMS used in our organization doesn’t
access data directly from our climatological database and needs manual
data manipulation. We want to develop another CDMS with extended GIS
capabilities and based on our climatological database.
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SERBIA
SLOVENIA
SWISSZERLAND
SYRIA
Quality control tools are robust and hard for applying any development of
QC algorithms. Practicaly, there is no convenient way to QC the data and
apply corrections to the database tables.The met. service uses its own
tools (self-developed) for QC, building up and enhancing criteria included
in the QC algorithms.
Regarding the needs we add new functions and functionalim
Adding gridded data sets and GIS infrastructure; Enhancing spatial
plausibility tests
Needs More queries & reports and data mining with hourly & daily and
monthly data.
Needs Homogeneity data functions and estimate.
Needs Agroclimateology functions.
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Annexe 5 : General comments from the respondents
RA I
1. ALGERIA
2. BENIN
Manque d’information sur l’évolution
des SGBDR utilisés par les SMHN.
Echange d’information très réduits, pas
de rencontres techniques (meeting) sur
les aspects de gestion des données
climatologiques et particulièrement
dans la région d’Afrique (CR I). Les
CDMS proposés par les pays
developpés sont payants.
L’acquistion de CLICOM vers la fin des
années 80 a permis, malgré quelques
difficultés liées au fonctionnement du
matériel, de mettre en place au niveau
du service météorologique du BENIN
une base de données climatologiques
plus ou moins complète, mais
comportant uniquement les données
d’observations en surface
(quotidiennes).
High price for acquiring a CDMS
Profit of CLICOM
lack staff
lack of training
En dépit de l'effectif actuellement très
réduit du personnel, des dispositions
sont prises pour assurer la mise à jour
de la base (recquisition à titre
temporaire d'opérateurs de saisie),
avec une importance particulière
accordée aux paramètres relatifs à
l’èlèment << Pluie>>.
3. BURKINA
FASO
Les problèmes inhérents à la nature ou
la conception du système ne permetent
pas de répondre aux divers besoins
non seulement pour l’exploitation mais
aussi pour les usagers externes. D’où
la nécessité d’envisager un système de
gestion plus performant. Ce qui justifie
l’installation en janvier 2008 du
système CLIDATA developpé par le
SMHN de la République tchèque mais
il est à noter que ce nouveau système
de gestion des données
climatologiques ne fonctionne pas
encore en raison notamment de
manque de formation adéquate du
responsable de la base de données
climatologiques et de manque de
personnel.
Demande d’assistance en formation ou Lack of training
de recyclage du personnel en charge Lack of CDMS
de la gestion de la Base de Données
Climatologiques.Acquisition le plus tôt
que possible de la version CLIDATA
Acris ou de CLIMSOFT, suivie de
formation pour leur prise en charge.
Nécessité d’acquisition d’un nouveau
serveur pour les Backup.
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4. BURUNDI
LE SMHN du BURUNDI souhaiterait un Lack of CDMS
système de gestion des bases de
Lack of training
données climatologiques qui soit en
mesure de représenter tout le contenu
des messages de format standard de
l’OMM (SYNOP, CLIMAT, etc.), et que
ce système puisse décoder des
messages directement dans la base de
données climatologiques.
Le SMHN du BURUNDI souhaiterait
aussi avoir un système capables de
générer des messages mensuels
CLIMAT à partir des informations
contenues dans la base de données.
Il est souhaitable de renforcer la
capacité du personnel du SMHN du
BURUNDI sur la technologie d’entrer
les données provenant des stations
météorologiques automatiques et sur
l’archivage numerique des anciènnes
données Climatologique.
5. CAMEROON Grâce au PACC( Programme d’
Assistance request
Adaptation aux Changements
Climatiques, nous pensons pouvoir
relancer la saisie des donnees
climatologigues .
Cependant si l’OMM pouvait nous
appuyer ce serait l’ideal compte tenue
de son expertise en la matiere.
6. CENTRAL
Nous souhaitons un véritable Appui à Assistance request
AFRICAN
notre Service Météorologique et
Profit of CLICOM
REPUBLIC
Hydrologique National (SMHN) afin que
nous puissions disposer dans un délai
raisonnable d’un véritable Système de
Gestion de Banse de Données qui va
renforcer nos activités.
Plusieurs Agents du SMHN de la RCA
ont été formés à l’utilisation du
Système CLICOM en 1993. Ce
Système a bien répondu à nos
attentes. S’il existe aujourd’hui une
version moderne de CLICOM
fonctionnant avec les Systèmes
d’Exploitation courants (WINDOWS),
nos ,souhaits iraient alors vers
l’obtention de CLICOM. Si vous pensez
qu’il existe un Système meilleur, là
aussi, nous irions vers vos conseils
avisés.
Merci d’avance.
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7. CONGO
8. COTE
D'IVOIRE
Le système de gestion des données est Lack of training
une composante importante dans le
service climatologique d’un SMHN pour
le traitement des données
climatologiques notamment sur le
contrôle de qualité des données et les
pruduits à donner aux usagers. A cet
effet, le système de gestion des
données climatologiques doit être un
produit perfectionné ( accessible,
stable, souple et fonctionnel). Un
accent particulier doit être mis sur son
apprentissage dans le temps, afin de
permettre à l’utilisateur de mieux
maîtriser son l’exploitation et de s’en
approprier.
LOGAM : LOGAM (Logiciel de gestion
des applications météorologiques et
climatologiques) est un logiciel qui
permet la saisie et le traitement des
données climatologiques horaires,
quotidiennes et mensuelles.
PHOTODATA : C'est un logiciel de
gestion (Saisie et consultation) des
photos de documents climatologiques
(carnet d'observation, Fiches de TCM,
Fiches pluviométriques.Il a été conçu
dans le cadre du projet DATA
RESCUE.
METEOFACT: C'est un logiciel qui
permet la saisie et l'edition de facture
relative à l'achat de données
climatologiques. Il permet aussi la
saisie des reçus de paiement des
données climatologiques et l'étude
(graphique) du portefeuille clients.
9. DEMOCRATIC Nous demandons à l’OMM de nous
REPUBLIC OF venir en aide dans le renforcement de
THE CONGO capacités materiels et humaines de
notre service dans le domaine de la
climatologie
10. DJIBOUTI
NOUVELLE INSTALLATION D UN
SYSTEME DE GESTION DE BASE
DES DONNEES QUI GERE L
ENSEMBLE DES DONNEES
CLIMATOLOGIQUES DU PAYS
Our CDMS is of small-medium size
11. EGYPT
scale with respect to performance and
storage capacity, this is in general for
hardware/software resources. Also, I
think that the information technology
used is high with respect OS (LINUX),
RDBMS (ORACLE), APPLCATION
SERVER (Zope) and the design of
sysem as hole is well-designed.
Lack of equipement
Lack of staff
Assistance request
Development phase
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12. GABON
13. GAMBIA
14. GUINEA
15. GUINEABISSAU
16. KENYA
Les dotations de l’Etat Gabonais à la
DMN ne sont pas efficientes pour
l’émergence des services
climatologique et informatique. Les
manquements ci-dessus ressortis
justifient de nombreuses données qui
manquent dans notre banque de
données climatologiques. Ce état nous
place dans une situation d’urgence afin
d’ apporter des solutions immédiates
pour résoudre tous ces problèmes.
Cela est tellement nécessaire
aujourd’hui, afin de pouvoir relever le
défi qui s’impose pour s’adapter aux
changements climatiques.
CLIDATA data was installed in 2004 by
Experts from AGHRYMET, but there is
a password problem and hence not
operational.Need assistance to remedy
the problem.
Pour une bonne gestion des données
climatologiques il faut (1)former des
météorologues pour la gestion et la
validation des données (2) avoir un
informaticien pour l’entretien et la
maintenance (3) disposer d’un
minimum de fonds pour le
fonctionnement et la maintenance
Actuellement le seul systéme de
gestion de base des données
climatologique qui est operationnel est
celui à partir d’Excel. Nous avosn une
equipe des techniciens chargés de
saisie des données provenence les
différentes stations et poste
pluviometriques pour constintuer un
support informátique disponible aux
usagers.
Lack of budget
Software problem
Assitance request
CLIDATA depuis qui a été installer par
les experts du CRA en 2005, il ne plus
opérationnel à cause des frequênts
coupeur d’éléctricité et aussi la
danification du système MODEM.
It is necessary that CDMS be capable Importance of the connection with the
to connect to the message switching
AMSS
systems either through FTP or SMTP
for the ease of data transmission
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17. MAURICIUS
18. MALAWI
19. MOROCCO
20. NAMIBIA
The climate and meteorological data
Assistance request
are archived in spreadsheet formats
through Clicom or Excel software
applications
The Mauritius Meteorological Services
have installed and is using Climsoft on
a trial basis but it appears that some
bugs persist in the program and is
not……..of the application. Mails have
been sent to WMo and the Zimbabwe
Meteorlogical Services for help but
there has been no response.
Opportunities for WMO CliRep is being
investigated and training facilities
explored for our needs. A wide varieties
of software for archiving are used in
addition to the spreadsheet format.
They are ORACLE, MySql, …..
MALAWI NEEDS SUPPORT TO
Assitance request
TRAIN ADMINISTRATORS AND
Lack of training
OPERATORS OF CLIMSOFT
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
THIS IS IN THE FORM OF FUNDING
THE DEVELOPERS TO COME TO
MALAWI TO TRAIN MORE OFFICERS
AND CONFIGURE THE SYSTEM TO
BE FULLY OPERATIONAL
MALAWI HAS PROCURED AND
INSTALLED OVER 20 FULL
AUTOMATIC WEATEHR STATIONS
AND OVER 45 AUTOMATIC
RAINGAUGES (RAINFALL LOGGING
SYSTEMS). THERE IS NEED FOR
THE CURRENT DATABASE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMTO BE ABLE
TO INGEST THE DATA AS IT COMES.
There is a lack of recommendations
about climatological practices from
WMO. Sometimes we heard that a
CDMS is WMO compliant but in reality
many aspects in the CDMS are not
completely defined in WMO document.
More widely circulated information on Lack of CDMS information
relevant planned changes and on-going
activities. This is particularly useful
given that not all Members (at
operations levels) attend all climate
related meetings. Information posted on
WMO website quite useful, but not
sufficient
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21. NIGER
22. RWANDA
La gestion d'une base de données
Lack of equipment
climatologiques est une activité de
routine très complexe et dont on court
toujours le risque de perdre une
richesse.Elle a donc besoin d'un
environnement informatique adéquat,
suffisant et de tout temps renouvellé
pour une meilleure sécurité du matériel
et des données surtout avec des
systèmes de gestion assez exigeants.
Aussi, elle besoin d'un personnel
suffisant en quantité et/ou qualifié pour
atteindre les objectifs nobles qui sont
fixés. NB : Nous sommes actuellement
entrain d'utiliser SUIVI et CLIMBASE
juste pour des raisons de panne
évoquée ci-haut et donc en attendant
de trouver une issue heureuse à notre
problème d'onduleur puissant et
adéquat, et évantuellement d'un autre
serveur. Cette panne n'a eu lieu qu'en
fin avril 2010 depuis l’installation de
CLIDATA en janvier 2005. Elle est
survenue après une des coupures
répétées qui ont entrainé un propblème
de redémarrage de notre serveur.
Après l’intervention des techniciens tout
était rentré dans l’ordre mais au prix
deperdre certaines données
(heureusement pas beaucoup). C’est
pour cela que nous avons
momentanément arrêté le serveur
CLIDATA (opérationnel depuis la date
si-dessus) car les coupures continuent
et donc le même risque demeurre s’il
n’y a pas de protection.
Il est bien que les SMHN et les privés Profit of CLICOM
aient l’occasion de développer leur
propre SGBD, mais le
développement du système
CLICOM par l’OMM n’aurait pas dû
être abandonné comme si le
Groupe qui l’avait mis au point
accusait une quelconque
défaillance. Le choix selon la
performance aussi bien que la
facilité d’acquisition devraient
garder leur priorité.
23. SAO TOME
AND
PRINCIPE
We have a lot of paper records. Effort Data Rescue issue
should be done in order to convert the
paper records into digital records
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24. SENEGAL
1. CLIDATA est un systeme de
Lack of training
gestion de donnees
Software enhancement
climatologiques assez complet
Lack of training
mais complexe et assez lourd,
Lack of equipment
surtout pour un personnel en
majorité non informaticien
2. 2. Le module d'inventaire des
données nécessite une
certaine amélioration
permettant de rendre cet
inventaire plus convivial
3. La formation des utilisateurs du
systeme (Administrateurs, Operateurs
de saisie, etc.) devrait être
renforcée et régulièrement
programmèe
4. Le matériel sur lequel le système est
installé est maintenant obsolète et
nécessite d'être remplacé
25. SEYCHELLES Seychelles would be very appreciated if Assistance request
receive financial and technical
assistance to install a new CDMS
Improvement of the system especially Software enhancement
26. SUDAN
in the area of quality control, Climsoft Lack of training
takes sometime when using the
progress bar, The updating process
needs development, Regular training is
very important when using Climsoft
27. TANZANIA
We need to migrate from CLICOM to Assistance request
CLIDATA
28. TUNISIA
Le Système de gestion des données
Software enhancement
climatologiques de l'INM répond plus
au moins aux besoins actuels de la
sous direction climatologie.
L'inconvénient est que le système de
gestion des données climatologiques
de l'INM(SDCLIM) ne groupe pas tous
les modules qui permettent d'effectuer
les différents traitements.
On opte donc à un système complet
pour tous les besoins climatiques, un
système de gestion qui permet de faire:
*l'automatisation de la collecte des
données des stations automatiques.
*l'integration des données climatiques
en temps réel.
*gestion, contrôle et stockage des
données climatiques.
* traitement des informations.
*production automatique des
messages CLIMAT.
*création des produits
graphiques(resumés, tableaux, roses
des vents, cartes…).
*diffusion des produits climatologiques
via les sites Intranet et Internet.
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29. UGANDA
•
It was a very good beginning Profit of CLICOM
when
WMO
developed High price to acquire and maintain a
CLICOM for member countries CDMS
for purpose of archiving and
managing climate data to Software enhancement
harmonize products generation
in all member countries.
•
Advancement in ICT forced
WMO
to
allow
member
countries to develop their own
CDMS even built using very
expensive tools (RDMSs) like
Oracle. This was a blow to
most LDCs who could not
afford such systems. Most
countries
continued
using
CLICOM, as they understood it
better as users of the system.
However much as they were
using it, they could neither
maintain it nor upgrade it due to
lack of local expertise.
•
CLIMSOFT was a blessing to
many LDCs countries as it is
using
cheap
and
locally
available tools together with
local expert. However there
was a controversy, much as the
developer trained users in
many countries and regular
consultations on the Climsoft
website, some users did not
find CLIMSOFT user friendly
due to bugs slowing down the
processes.
Despite the problems Uganda
benefited a lot from CLIMSOFT
to integrate or the Clicom data
into
a
single
databank.
CLIMSOFT’s compatibility with
CLICOM made it easy to work
with and the 2 systems run
parallel in the DoM. Its inbuilt
capability to process TDCF at
just a click of a button has been
exploited to teach Ugandans to
code in TDCF though the
transmission of data has not
yet started due to some other
logistics.
•
•
RECOMMENDATION:NMHSs
approach institutions in their
countries to help them bult a
fully functional CDM system
and then continue maintaining
it for the meteorological
services.
•
NMHSs recruit IT expert well
versed with RDMS and who
can even generate codes and
modules to improve the
CDMS questionnaire
July 2011
functionality
of the system.
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We need to migrate from CLICOM to Assistance request
REPUBLIC OF CLIDATA
TANZANIA
We need CLIMSOFT and also generate Assistance request
31. ZAMBIA
our own CDMS, CLIMAT – old manual
way. There is need for CLIREP
30. UNITED
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RA II
BANGLADESH BMD has taken a project on “Development Development phase
of Human Capacity on Operation of
Weather Analysis and Forecasting” under
technical cooperation of Japan . Under this
project BMD will be able to :Develop the
quality control system (automatic and
human quality control) for identifications of
abnormal values ,Modify the quality control
system ,Archive the climate data in the
database developed in the project
,Implement the statistical analysis of
climate trend ,Organize the regional
workshop on climate change. BMD is trying
to get technical support from WMO about
TDCF (Ref. No. NMCC-2(5)/2008/41,
dated: 12/01/2010) . If BMD gets the
support within the stipulated time , then it
will be possible to switch over to TDCF .
Bangladesh is a vulnerable country in the
perspective of climate change due to its
critical geographical location and its high
population density . To ensure the national
food security and disaster mitigation , BMD
has to enhance its climate services . To
address the increasing demand of
meteorological data supply to the
Government , public and research
institutions for local and regional climate
scenario generation and planning for
adaptation and mitigation , BMD needs the
capacity which require proper climate data
archival & management system and
capacity of running a climate model .
CAMBODIA
I would like to propose re-capacity building Assistance request
on Climsoft, because it is very important for
me and its knowledge can be prepared and
operated in the Ministry of Water
Resources and Meteorology, especially
Department of Meteorology.
CHINA
We should use metadata in Climate data Software enhancement
management.
HONG KONG A user-friendly Graphical Uer Interface for Development phase
generating user-defined climatological
reports and an intrinsic QC capability would
be the highly desirable features for the
state-of-the-art CDMS.
INDIA
At present VAX-4000/300 and Compaq
Development phase
Alpha Server are being used to meet the
needs of National Data Centre. Migration
to RDBMS with the installation of CliSys
will be done within 2 -3 months time.
JAPAN
I think simple CDMS is desirable for a
robust climate data management within
WMO members, because it is easy to
handle for those who do not have expertise
in computer technology, and so on.
Generating CLIMAT messages and quality
control of recived CLIMAT messages
should be done by other systems.
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KUWAIT
The CDMS obtained from the Australian
High price to acquire and maintain a CDMS
Bureau of Meteorology through ALMOS
Australia, has been highly customised to
meet the Kuwait Department of
Meteorology requirements. The
customisation (or localisation) has been
performed by on-site staff from
ALMOS/Australian Bureau of Meteorology
and more recently our own developers. As
a result and at this point in time, our CDMS
could be considered essentially a locally
developed and locally supported which
uses the Australian Bureau of Meteology's
ADAM CDMS relational schema as its
core.
It is anticipated that as our developers
continue to develop experience and
expertise in this CDMS tecnology that
further customisation and changes to meet
WMO program and other requirements, will
be performed wholey within the Kuwait
Meteorological Department. The key
advantages of this approach are the ability
of our Meteorological Department to
respond quickly, effecienty and at minimal
cost to required changes and to growing
and changing demands.
A indirect and unforessen benefit of our
CDMS technology is the its ability to attract
highly motiitvated univerity graduates
because we are using the industry
standard RDBMS, Oracle. These staff are
provided with the opportunity to contribute
to our Deparment and at the same time
gain experience that is directly transferable
to other industries should their wish to
change their career direction in future.
Despite this and the advantages mentioned
above, the problem exists that Oracle is
extemely expensive which makes aquistion
of appropriate additional and continuing
funding a serious challenge for small
Meteorogical Deparments such as ours.
Due again to our small size, our ability to
gain good leverage with Oracle to gain
good discount levels, is extremely limited.
LAO
PEOPLE'S
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
The Data management system in Assistance request
lao PDR still need some help from
WMO. Since we wrote VCP and
sent to WMO secretariat up tonow ,
still not yet received any information
from WMO.
We would like to request the
system, which can management the
hydrometeorological data and need
international expert to assit how
running the system and manage
data mainly how to prepare the
correct CLIMATE message
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MALDIVES
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
It would be excellent if an expert in CDMS Lack of training
can come and train more staff and
technical staff at the place.
Current CDMS operational in the
Lack of staff
department based on GWbasic programs Development phase
(and script) is out of date in light of new
developments. So we plan to migrate to a
RCDMs in future. As an initiative in this
direction, participated in WMO sponsored
CLIMSOFT training program in Vietnam in
Nov-Dec 2007. But I found some limitations
in CLIMSOFT program like preparing data
in publication format, which we already
have in existing GWbasic programs, quality
control procedure, graphics visualization
etc. This is one reason for not migrating
from existing system to CLIMSOFT.
Another is the time constrain, Lack of
Human resources in tesing the system,
training fellow staffs, importing the past
data and regular entry for the new. Ideally
we need to maintain existing and new
DBMS in operation for few years, so as to
test and build confidence in new system
which demands considerable resources. As
a new initiative, Finnish Meteorological
Institution is planning to support in
development of advance RDBMS under
FNEP-ICT projects. This system with have
capabilities of aquiring real time data from
AWS, manaual data entry as well as data
retrival at different user level, sound quality
control procedure. This DBMS will have
features similar to one currently used by
FMI. Futher there is plan to train DHM
staffs and maintain the system for some
time under this project. This we hopoe will
enable us to migrate from existing DBMS to
advance RDBMS.
PMD will appreciate WMO assistance Assistance request
in acquiring some appropriate CDMS
for implementation at PMD for
improved climatological data
managmenet and climatic services
SRI LANKA
The CLICOM system which we used, can Software problem
run in the older version of DOS. It cannot
run even in DOS 6.22. As such CLICOM
should be replaced by CLIMSOFT.
Currently both the systems are operated
simultaniously. The studies are going on to
find the ways to change the whole system
in to CLIMSOFT within this year. At present
there is no good archiving system in the
computer division though it is the most
important requirement.
UZBEKISTAN FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND
Software enhancement needed
INTRODUCTION OF CDMS IS
NECESSARY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT
OF THE QUALITY OF CLIMATIC
SERVICES
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COLOMBIA
GUYANA
The IDEAM Institute is actually jobbing on
the migration to ORACLE data base of all
meteorological and climatical information.
Would be grateful for WMO
support/guidance on upgrading our
software/database
Development phase
Assistance request
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RA IV
ANGUILLA
ANTIGUA
AND
BARBUDA
BAHAMAS
THE CDMS NEED TO BE UPGRADED
Difficulty in obtaining meteorological data
from small meteorological offices in the
Caribbean is a problem that is well known
to the scientific community. Currently, most
small stations store observation data in
books, which they later revisit to fulfill
requests and to prepare monthly data
collection reports. These reports are sent
to at regional center to be analyzed and
archived. This method has led to problems
with data quality and integrity. The
Observation Storage and Processing
Program is a data collection and processing
solution used for the calculation, tabulation,
archiving and querying of observation data.
The program utilizes a series of checks for
detecting coding errors, and inappropriate
ranges. Attempts have been made to catch
any violation of the standard meteorological
codes. The program accepts data from a
user, processing is done after which the
user saves the data to a database. The
database can be queried for information or
to provide predefined reports. The program
can be seen as an Electronic Data Register
where the data is being digitized by the
hour. The goals of the Observation Storage
and Processing Program are: to provide an
extremely simple way to collect, store and
process data and to access or display
information; increase efficiency and, to
reduce incidences of human error. In
addition the program offers a simple
solution to the digitization of archived data.
The program is a Client/Server architecture,
consisting of separate applications for Data
Entry & Processing, Query, Display and
Data Management which interface with a
database management system. The
database was implemented with Microsoft
Access database management system and
can store up to about 2 Gigabytes of
meteorological observations data. The
program can also be adjusted to use Mysql
or Oracle databases. Hourly observations
records stored for a year amount to about a
2 Megabytes.
Please note to clarify questions 5, 6, and 7,
we are using a RDBMS (MySQL) and a non
RDBMS (Exel 2003).
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BELIZE
Belize would like to have a system that is Development phase
more user friendly , DBMS that is web
Lack of training
interface. Generate graps, maps and other Software enhancement needed
products.
Belize would like to have DBMS that would
be able to link to our Automatic weather
stations and information from Satellite to be
download into our DBMS.
Presently Belize have been using the
BDCAC which is the Regionla Central
American Data base, so far we have 16
stations already in the data base, that
comprises max, min and rainfall . Data goes
back from the time the 16 stations were
open and up to present.
As for Table-Driven Code Forms (TDCF)
Belize donot have any Knowledge and if
does it was not pass on to the personnel in
the Climat Unit, thus our climat message
continue to been send thru the FM71CLIMAT forms.
Ms Catherine Cumberbatch Deputry Chief
Meteorologist and Head of the
Climatologoical Unit of the National
Meteorological and Hydrological Service of
Belize is responsible for all information
concerning Climatological data and CDMS
for the country. All information can be
addreSs dierectly to her thru her email
address below.
DOMINICA
At the moment data at the Dominica
Lack of training
Meteorological Service is being compiled in
excel spreadsheet format, some basic
analysis is being done. However further
training in this field is required.
DOMINICAN Se necesitan entrenamiento en el manejo Lack of training
REPUBLIC
de SGDC. Estos entrenamiento deben ser Software enhancement needed
constantes; El servicios meteorologico de la
Republica Dominicana no ha recibido el
CLIREP ni entrenamiento de esta parte.
SAINT
The proramme appears to function well with Software enhancement needed
VINCENT
expectations. However, there are very rare
AND
occasions of data drop-outs. I suppose
GRENADINES ungoing development may be able to
explain and hopefully resolve such. Despite
this, no significant inconveniences are
caused
TURKS AND CLIMAT messages are not generated in the
CAICOS
Turks and Caicos Islands for two reasons
(1) It only provides observations for
aviation.(2)The stations do not not have 30years of observation data.
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AUSTRALIA
It will not be a viable option to expect all
Software enhancement needed
organisations to use the same CDMS. We
need to work on interoperability issues to
ensure that we can adequately exchange
climate data between organisations without
having to worry about the underlying
technology stacks and data models being
used by other organisations.
Increasingly, the users of climate data are
wanting dynamic access to the data in a
format suitable for dynamic access and
exchange via the Web. This is precluding
the use of traditional WMO formats in many
cases.
We need to be open to change and willing
to explore the potential benefits that can be
gained from data interoperability via open
spatial standards.
BRUNEI
Brunei Meteorological is the process of
Development phase
DARUSSALAM replacing CDMS with a modern COROBOR
system and hopefully it will be made
available by May 2012. With this new
CDMS the CLIMAT message will be coded
in TDCF.
COOK
The current CDMS is a multi-lateral
Development phase
ISLANDS
programme between BoM and a few of the
small NMHSs in the Pacific with the goal of
obtaining a user-friendly software that can
take on the concerns of the NMHSs in
developing and archiving their climate data.
Some small problems has been
sortedduring the development stage and
the input stage but there is still a need to
make the software more user-friendly.
FIDJI
CLICOM has worked well for the Fiji
Profit of CLICOM
Meteorological Service. However, over the Software/CDMS enhancement needed
years, technology has advanced and
changes are needed to adapt to new
technologies. A system that can
automatically injest data from Auotmated
Weather Stations, river gauges and other
data sources is needed. Furthermore, a
system that has got ability to present data
in graphical format is desirable. A system
which is easy to use and has got user
friendly interface is needed to counter high
turn over of experienced and retiring staff.
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INDONESIA
PHILIPPINES
SAMOA
SOLOMON
ISLANDS
To meet the user need of climatological
Development phase
information especially climat change
information, NHMS needs CDMS to
manage their climatological data which will
grow everyday and everytime.
Climatological data are never ending
usage, so all the data (from the beginning
of observation, up to now and the future)
should be collected, quality checked,
managed, easily retrieved fastly and
continuosly.
BMKG always refer to the WMO CDMS
guidance in developing the CDMS. Our
plan is to develop CDMS in four aspect,
those are : hardware (storage, server,
workstation and communication), software
(system and updated application),
brainware (well-trained IT and database
staf to update application) and data (valid
data).
There is an urgent need for the PAGASA Development phase
to migrate to a more robust data
Assistance request
management system. The CLICOM which
has been used for the past 20 years by the
agency runs only in DOS program and
needs to be updated. PAGASA and its
clientele would benefit from a more
advanced, up-to-date climate database
management system.
We would need the support of the WMO in
terms of looking for available and tested
CDMS from other National Meteorological
Office.
We urgently require refresher training on Lack of training
CLIMAT messages.
Assistance request
Our current Climate Data Management
Development phase
System (CliDE) was developed in 2010 as
part of the Pacific Climate Change Science
Program to provide a central respsitory of
climate observations and to assist in Data
Rescue and digitizing old paper records
and integrating data stored as ASCII files.
The CliDE – Climate Database System was
installed in Solomon Islands in June 2011.
With its initial establishment, the progress
to adapt to the structure of the data key
entry forms is gradually building up.
However; it is highly recommend that a
climate Data management system like
CLICOM was very friendly user hence; a
global standard database management
system as such is highlydesirable.
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32. ALBANIA
Our personel is drastically reduced.
Lack of staff
Because of th elack of personel we
cannot use the CDMS. Up to some
months ago are prepared Climatic
monthly bulletin and transmited to
GCOS, monthly precipitation
transmited to GPCC but nowdays
these data are not disposable for th
epersonel which follow this job.
Updating of CDMS with WMO support Assistance request
33. ARMENIA
is extremely requested.
Lack of training
Armstatehydromet has already
purchased CLIWARE in order to
replace CLICOM. But we need WMO
support to send to Armstatehydromet
appropriate expert from RIHMI-WDC
for installation of the system and
training of specialists.
34. BELGIUM
Il y a quelques années, l’’IRM a opté Development phase
pour un système de gestion de base
de données centralisée et relationnelle
de type Oracle. Cela a demandé (et
demande encore pour certianes séries)
beaucoup de temps et d’énergie pour
la migration de toutes les banques de
données qui étaient dispersées dans
les différents départements de l’IRM.
Actuellement, l’effort est
principalement mis sur la finalisation
du contrôle de qualité des données
d’archives, sur l’homogénéisation des
séries et sur l’exploitation des données
climatologiques pour répondre aux
demandes standard.
Un objectif prioritaire est la confection
à terme d’un Atlas climatologique pour
la Belgique à partir des données
disponbiles dans la nouvelle banque
de donnée.
35. BOSNIA AND We are quite satisfied with CLIDATA
HERZEGOVIN as CDBMS. There are some small
tuning needed in extracting the data
A
from DB ( e.g. monthly
data…extreme). Also, manual for
CLIDATA is quite basic, and any
advance work needs contact with
supplier
36. GEORGIA
We are using historical data prepared Development phase
for CLICOM. Current data we process
using PERSONA MISS and MIP
developed by Russian Federation. For
climate data management we do not
have yet any CDMS and use a system
based on flat files developed by
ourself.
In future our NMHS plan to install
CLIDATA through bilateral agreement
with Czech Republic NMHS.
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37. GERMANY
38. ITALY
39. JORDAN
40. LUXEMBO
URG
The CDMS at DWD is a system of
ORACLE RDBMS and applications
running on Linux and Windows
systems to process the climate data.
These applications are not integrated
in one software package. The CLIMAT
generation is integrated in the data
processing of the operational AMDA
weather stations and the generation of
BUFR records for global distribution
(like SYNOP and CLIMAT). The
System QUALIMET is used for the
quality control of the original data being
basis for the climate data
We would like to install in our
machines, test and use as a backup
system one of CDMS adopted by
WMO and CLIREP software
We are planning maybe next year to Development phase
upgrade our JCDMS by adding more
functions.
Comments log #7:
Lack of training
Please note that in the time before the
implementation of the CDMS and during
the transition period climatological data
has been and will be stored in MS Office
Excel (2007) spreadsheets on Windows XP
operating systems. Prior to 1996 until 1947
there is historical synoptic data that has not
been digitized yet. It is planned to start a
data rescue project in the near future.
Comments log #16:
Due to the requirements by law the two
divisions in the Service Météorologique de
Luxembourg (SML)
(Observation, Forecasting) work
operational to meet the needs for
aeronautical internal and external clients.
There is a different level of knowledge in
the management of the CDMS and
statistics across the team. It is planned that
more staff is trained by MFI for using the
CDMS and to increase the statistical
background.
Comments log #22:
Currently the CLIMAT message is
disseminated via the AFTN Intelligence
terminal. The TAC format is transferred to
the TDCF by Belgocontrol. After the full
implementation of the CliSys CDMS the
CLIMAT message will be scheduled for
dissemination in TDCF (BUFR format).
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41. MONTENEGRO Climate data management system
CLIDATA was installed in September
2008 instead of CLICOM. Many
problem relative to CLICOM db,
especially quality control are resolved
in CLIDATA. Up to now many functions
operative in CLIDATA (e.g. automation
of data import from automatic weather
station) are not implemented.
Although the process of generating
CLIMAT message is automatic. It is not
yet used in Clidata as the data
available in db with the time delay.
CMDS is sensitive to the data sources, Lack of CDMS information
42. SLOVENIA
classic or automatic measurements.
CDMS sometimes needs adaptations.It
would be good to have any strategy WMO recommendation regarding to
the ratio between the number of
conventional and automatic stations,
including the maintenance and
necessity of redundant sensors. CMDS
can be successful but if there are the
gapes in the data series or little shifted
measurements, that we can't seen, is
CMDS only a mathematical tool.
Needs of WMO expertise in the
Assistance request
43. SYRIA
database field. Needs several
Lack of training
resources of qualification (capacity
building)
44. TURKEY
CDMS application Met_DADS is an inhouse application that has developed
by Informix-4GL. All historical (from
1929) climatological data in forms were
inserted database by operators since
1995. Historical data insertion was
finished 2 years ago. All climatological
data is in Database now. Control and
correction are continuing. Last 10
years, all data collection and archive in
database operation has been
automatic. Observation is patially
automatic because of installing
Automatic Weather Stations. Next
year, all observation system will be
fully automatic. Data presentation is
fully automatic via Web Portal.
Climatological data is transferring from
Informix DB to Sybase ASE and then
Sybase IQ for quick response.
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