GCOS

Implementation Project Manager’s Report

Richard K. Thigpen

GCOS Secretariat

Geneva, Switzerland

Primary Activities

Direct GUAN and GSN Station Renovation

Technical Support Projects

CBS Lead Centers for GCOS

Training Workshops

Some Metrics

GUAN Revitalization ActivitiesEquipment Replacement

Hydrogen Generators and Upper Air Systems

Gan, Maldives Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Windhoek, Namibia Harare, Zimbabwe

Yerevan, Armenia Penrhyn, Cook Islands

Douala, Cameroon Antananarivo, Madagascar

Dakar, Senegal Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Nairobi, Kenya Bauerfield, Vanuatu

Honiara, Solomon Islands Laoag, Philippines

Galapagos, Ecuador Lima, Peru

Niamey, Niger Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Seychelles Mauritius

Radiosondes and Balloons To Many

Current GUAN Revitalization Activities

Hydrogen Generators to:

Mahe, Seychelles

Niamey, Niger

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Generators Still a problem

Radiosondes to:

Mauritius

What is Next For GUAN?

Galapagos

Roratonga Generator

Plans include (Maybe):

Luanda, Angola

Khartoum, Sudan

Kananga, DRC

Nampula, Mozambique

Bjelasnica circa 1890

Bjelasnica 1994

Current and Next for GSN?

Angola

Madagascar (11 Stations)

Zambia (Comms)

Aragats High Mountain, Armenia

Chisinau, Moldova

Tbilisi, Georgia

High Performance Wind System for Bjelasnica

GCOS Technical Support Projects

Current Projects

Pacific Islands (New Zealand Met Service US Bi lateral)

Americas (Private Company)

Southern Africa (Competition Soon)

Visit Each GUAN Station 2 Times per Year

Visit as Many GSN as Possible

Monitor reports from all Stations

Technical Support Projects

Site Visits:

Better Meta Data

Including Photos Around Sensor Suite

Actual Location of Many are Wrong

Many are no Longer Good Sites

Calibration and Training

CLIMAT/CLIREP Workshop

Three So Far

Next Planned for Fiji in 2009 ?

In Coordination with WCP/WWW/BOM

Includes WWW Handbook on CLIMAT

(TD 1188)

Includes Set up and Use of CLIREP

Upper Air Workshop

Workshop Held in October in Windhoek

All GUAN in Africa

Coordination with WWW

Funded by GCOS (KNMI)

Team from UKMO Lead by John Nash

In English and French

Five Vendors Participated

Included Generator Support and Safety

Next in India February 2009

CBS Lead Centers for GCOS

Direct Contact with Countries

Distributed around the World

Bridge Cultural/Language Problems

Encouraged to Contact All Countries

Monitor Operation

Resolve Problems

Request Historical Data

CBS Lead Centers for GCOS

Australia Kevin SmithChile Jorge CarrascoGermany Tobias Fuchs

(With Udo Schneider)Iran Mina JabbariMorocco Rachid SebbariJapan Hidehiko IsobeMozambique Domingos Mosquito PatricioUS Matt Menne

(Assisted by Larry Nicodemus & Greg Hammer)UK Jonathan Shanklin

(British Antarctic Survey)

CBS Lead Centers

Need to Meet Bi Annually

Impact on Budget

Expand to include all of RBCN

Reports to AOPC and CBS Annually

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Leadership/Guidance from Who?

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Number of CLIMAT Received at NCDC

Some Metrics

Historical Data from 30 Countries into Archive

Most GUAN Stations Work!

October 2007 All African GUAN Reported!

Monitoring Center at DWD/JMA Report Records for CLIMAT Receipt

Fixed GTS Problem Resulted in >200 CLIMAT at JMA

GCOS Cooperative Mechanism (GCM)

Funds from Spain

Latin American Countries

Galapagos GUAN Ecuador Next

Funds from UKMO

Radiosondes, Yerevan, Seychelles

Funds from GermanyWind System for BjelasnicaChisinau GSN

Funds from CanadaTSP for the Americas

GCOS Cooperative Mechanism (GCM)

Funds From USImplementation Project ManagerFunded Many ProjectsTSP for AmericasAragats GSN

NetherlandsGenerators for Niger and Cote d’IvoireGUAN Workshop in WindhoekAngola GSNRadiosondes for MauritiusTSP for Southern Africa

What’s Next?

More Emphasis on Quality not Quantity

Additional Support and training

Further Develop the CBS Lead Centers

Need Funding!

Thank You

RKT