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The Commission of Agricultural Meteorology
MISSION and ACTIVITIES
Byong Lee . South Korea. President
Federica Rossi . Italy. Vice - President
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WMO Strategic Thrusts (2012-2015)
• Improving service quality and service delivery;
• Advancing scientific research and application, as well
as development and implementation of technology;
• Strengthening capacity-building;
• Building and enhancing partnerships and cooperation;
• Strengthening good governance
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Five priority Areas
• Global Framework for Climate Services;
• Aviation meteorological services;
• Capacity-building for the Developing, Least developed Countries, LLDCs;
• Implementation of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System
(WIGOS) and WMO Information System (WIS);
• Disaster risk reduction
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D. Grimes
M. Jarraud
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Regional Associations
R.A. IR.A. IAfricaAfrica
R.A.IIIR.A.IIISouth AmericaSouth America
R.A. VR.A. VSouthSouth--West PacificWest Pacific
R.A. VIR.A. VIEuropeEurope
R.A. IVR.A. IVNorth America, North America, Central AmericaCentral Americaand the Caribbeanand the Caribbean
R.A. IIR.A. IIAsiaAsia
WMO/OMM
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Permanent representatives
ITALY- Stato Maggiore Aeronautica Militare
• Permanent representatives (PRs) of Members with WMO are normally
Directors of National Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Services
who act on technical matters for their governments between sessions
of Congress. Permanent representatives are the normal channel of
communication between the Organization and Members and maintain
contact with the competent governmental or non-governmental
authorities on matters concerning the work of the Organization.
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CAgM is the strategic interface between WMO and agriccommunities (farmers, extension, policy makers)
15th Session of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology(Belo Horizonte, Brazil – 15-21 July 2010)
Approved CAgM Strategic Plan – develop enhanced weather and climate services for agricultural, livestock, forestry, fisheriescommunities.
Millenium Development GoalsWorld Food Security Rome UN statementsWorld Climate Conference Geneva 2009- better services through
GFCS
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Commission for Agricultural Meteorology–
Terms of Reference
• Support applications of meteorology to management of agriculture,
livestock, forestry, rangelands and fisheries sectors;
• Assist Member countries in developing/establishing their
agrometeorological services particularly on:
– Operational use of knowledge concerning weather and climate
for sustainable agricultural management through conservation
and better use of natural resources;
– Use of weather and agrometeorological observations, forecasts
and warnings for operational purposes;
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Commission for Agricultural Meteorology–
Terms of Reference (2)
– Use of climate observations and predictions;
– Adaptation to climate variability and change (developing
countries);
– Combating unfavourable influences of weather and climate on
agricultural subsectors, including weather-related pests and
diseases;
– Protection of agricultural produce in storage/transit against
damage due to direct and indirect influences of weather and
climate;
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Commission for Agricultural Meteorology–
Terms of Reference (3)
• Improve coordination and collaboration mechanisms with users
of weather and climate information in agricultural subsectors & liaise
actively with weather and climate service providers;
• Formulate data and information requirements for agricultural
purposes;
• Foster development and use of effective communication methods
for acquiring and disseminating agrometeorological information,
advice and warnings to agricultural subsectors and getting feedback;
• Promote a better understanding of the interactions and impacts of
weather and climate in regards to drought and desertification;
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TORs of CAgM MG
• Review and decide upon priorities and schedules for the
activation of Open Programme Area Group (OPAG) teams taking
into account the requirements expressed at the session of the
Commission, and assess and evaluate the progress achieved and
provide continuing guidance on timescales for their work and
outputs;
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Management Group(MG)
OPAG 1Agrometeorological
Services for Agricultural Production
Chair: S. Walker (RA I)Co-chair: L.S. Rathore (RA II)
COMMISSION FOR AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGYCOMMISSION FOR AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGYscientific structure
OPEN PROGRAMME AREA GROUPS (OPAGs)
OPAG 2Support Systems for Agrometeorological
Services
Chair: O. Brunini (RA III)Co-chair: H. Shannon (RA IV)
OPAG 3Climate Change/ Variability and
Natural Disasters In Agriculture
Chair: R. Stone (RA IV)Co-chair: S. Orlandini (RA VI)
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Key priorities for 2011-2014 from
CAgM Strategic Plan1- Support agrometeorological training at regional, national and local levels
(curricola)
• Guide on Agricultural Meteorological Practices (WMO No 134) – Completed - CDs beingfinalized (May/June 2011)
Telugu language Andhra Pradesh. " VAATAVARANAM-VYASAYAM" "Weather -Agriculture".
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2009 Seminar – Demonstration of Raingauge
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Key priorities for 2011-2014 from
CAgM Strategic Plan• 2- Develop enhanced services for the agricultural, livestock, forestry,
rangelands and fisheries communities and partner agencies:
Improve quality & quantity of services- Share resources among existing
project and initiatives. GFCS - Pilot projects- Integrate non-NHMS networks
into WIGOS and WIS via National Agromet Station Network initiative.
Climate and weather info as a tool for:
Strategic planning –
GIS-Rs in generating
combined maps
Tactical planning –
improve short-medium
forecast
Improve crop strategies
and protection.
Facilitate early
monitoring systems. Implement strategies for
water & resources
conservation
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Key priorities for 2011-2014 from
CAgM Strategic Plan
3- Climate services and development of the climate user interface as part of GFCS;
– Human services including agrometeorological consultation;– Technological applications to communicate information to decision-makers;– Identification of innovative risk-management systems in global food
production;
• 4- Encourage development of knowledge sharing interface between scientists, extension services and the agricultural decision-makers; Encourage sharing of resources among WMO Members and other organizations to create synergies, to support human health and economic development- INSAM – WAMIS
• 5- cooperation with others (FAO, UNCCD, Agric Res Inst….)
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Implementation of the GFCS
GFCS Structure from view point of
CAgM
Products/ApplicationsProducts/Applications
MonitoringMonitoring CommunicationsCommunications
User InterfaceUser Interface
CapacityCapacity
BuildingBuilding
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Global Framework for Climate Services
AGRICULTURAL USER
COMMUNITY
Tactical & StrategicDecisions
Need to make critical day to day and long term
planning decisions
Many decisions are weather/climate-driven
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Agricultural User Community
Agricultural Decision - Makers
Agricultural Extension Services
GovernmentPolicy Makers
ResearchInstitutions
Farm Operations
AgribusinessCrop
Insurance
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WMO OMMWeather and Climate Services
Weather & Climate Service
Providers
National Meteorological &
Hydrological Institutions
International Institutions
Regional Climate Centers
National Climate Centers
Research Institutions
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Climate Service Providers &
Agricultural Community
Weather and Climate Service
Providers
Agricultural User
Community
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Climate Service Providers &
Agricultural Community
Weather and Climate Service
Providers
Agricultural User
Community
Resource Delivery System
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Agricultural Community
There is a need for an efficient user interface program to ensure an effective information flow from weather and climate service providers to decision makers in a timely manner for appropriate use.
Source: Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
Climate ServicesProviders
Decision Makers(all climate sensitive
sectors
User InterfaceProgram
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Agricultural CommunityCAgM : Commission for Agricultural Meteorology
The ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between providers and users of weather and climate information. For agriculture, the World AgroMeteorologicalInformation Service (WAMIS) has been developed by CAgM for this purpose.
WAMIS Phase I 2002; Phase II 2010
Resource Delivery Service
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Agroclimatic System
Communication of Information--Needs
• Information for farmers/local decision makers:
-- Relevant, timely and user-friendly
• Advisories on farm management:
-- Planting/harvesting dates , disease spraying,
irrigation scheduling etc.
• Early warning alerts of extreme weather events
• Improved short-term to long-range outlook for agriculture
• Media reporting (telephone, newspaper, radio, TV, mail,
Internet) of forecasts, early-alert warnings and advisories
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What Inhibits Effective Use of Weather, Water and Climate
Information?
• Insufficient density of data observations in rural areas.
• The lack of standardized climate databases with software
to create products necessary for agriculture
(i.e., agricultural drought indices)
• Timely access to comprehensive products and resources.
• Availability of products and resources in standard formats.
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WAMIS Tools and Resources • The following tools and resources were compiled from different
sources to aid WMO Members in improving their
agrometeorological bulletins and increasing their knowledge of
available agrometeorological-related resources.
• Following are numerous documents and free software:
Climate Forecasts | Data Management | Dissemination | Drought |
Feedback | Forestry/Fire | GIS | GRADS | Irrigation/Drainage |
Natural Disasters | Observations | Online Training | Phenology |
Plant/Animal Health | Rainfall Monitoring | Remote Sensing | Soil
Erosion | Statistics | Weather/Climate Data |
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• Servers:
– uWAMIS –United States/George Mason Univ (GMU)
– kWAMIS – South Korea/Seoul National Univ (SNU)
– iWAMIS – Italy/Institute of Biometeorology IBIMET)
WAMIS Phase II
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• The WAMIS Phase II servers are linked web portals that will access resource products and services at the international, national, regional and institutional levels.
• Resource products and services include:
--NWP Forecast/
--Climate Change Scenarios
--crop, p&d, models
--IT Resources
--Data Base Management System
--Special Product Analyses
• Each server will have primary functions, but will be linked to the other two servers.
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Risk Management Tools
Decision Support Tools
WAMISServers
Weather & Climate Data Products
Forecast ProductsAgronomic DataCrop StatisticsCrop Models
Hydrologic DataForestry Data
Resource Sharing
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One of 756 sites
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Implementation StrategyImplementation Strategy
Governance as
Global Federation of Agrometeorology society Global Federation of Agrometeorology society
with regional members from
-Europe
- East/ South/Central Asia
- North/Latin America
- Africans (4 sub-regions)
- Oceania
9. Capacity Building / Outreach9. Capacity Building / Outreach
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RA VI- Working group on Climate &
Hydrology
Task Team CLIMATE
Leader J. Etzinger Austria
Aim: review of agrometeorological products/services to improve
implementation and impacts.
…. Use of climate and meteorological resources in the
European high-quality agricultural production chain
Luigi Mariani, Federica Rossi, Simone Parisi
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• AGROMETEOROLOGY FOR FOOD-CHAINS
• AGROMETEOROLOGICAL NEEDS FOR CROP PRODUCTION
• Approach based on the adoption of the classical modeling
scheme of crops production. The final output of the scheme (a
given quantity/quality of yield) is the input of the agro-industrial
chain to produce final outputs for market.
• Dynamic crop simulation models based on a cascade of energy
triggered by solar radiation that feeds a cascade of matter
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PNA TL/WL - Thermal and water potential assimilation
Simone G. Parisi - 8
NPP
GASS – Gross Assimilation [g CH2O]
PNA – Potential assimilation [g CH2O]
PNA_TL – Thermal potential assimilation [g CH2O]
NPP – Net Primary Production [g CH2O]
Nutrient limitation
Thermal limitation
Respiration, conversion, translocation
AT
AT
AT, RH, WV, SR
Assimilation repartitionAT, RH, WV, SR
Pheno
phase
Leaves fruits shoot roots Accumulation
SRPAR
Water limitation
RRBiological and chemical fact
• Agri-food chain Es: winter cereals: Harvest -> Desiccation -> Storage -> Trade -> Food industry -> Trade of final products
Info needed as analysis/forecast:
• - harvest date
• yield quantity of production (t ha-1)
• -yield quality (e.g.: proteins and quality of gluten)
Information at spatial scales:
• - single fields (traceability)
• - homogeneous cropping areas
• - administrative units.
Specific information needed for the management of:
• desiccation plants: activity determined by rhythms of supply, seed water content and temperatur, air temperature and relative humidity.
• storage plants: management activities planned as a function of quantity / quality of products. At a 12-13%, grain moisture content, wheat can be stored up to 12 months if grain temperature is below 13°C. A uniform temperature throughout the bin is needed.
• stock exchange: information about product availability (quantity / quality)
• food industries : industrial processes must be tuned on the base of rhythms of product supply and its quantity/quality.
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