Global Weather Enterprise Conference - 2018

The programme structure for the conference will focus on:

• Session 1: Business and operating models for data generation and delivery (including national cases) – are current models efficient and sustainable; what needs to be changed
• Session 2 (joint session with CIMO-TECO): Measurement community meets the GWE think tank to discuss sustainable measurements, innovation, related standardization and quality issues
• Session 3: Data for all – data sharing mechanisms, policies and governance – new perspectives brought by the GWE

Panel sessions will be conducted in each session with the aim at deriving key issues and recommendations for inclusion in the Conference Statement.

Programme

Abstracts and bio info of speakers

Day 1, 11 October 2018

• Opening
  • Welcome address by WMO Assistant Secretary-General; Dr Wenjian Zhang
  • Setting up the scene 1 - Theme, objective, organization; Dimitar Ivanov (WMO)
  • Setting up the scene 2 - Introduction to Global Weather Enterprise and GWE Forum; Alan Thorpe (University of Reading, UK)
  • Keynote 1 - Observational Data - the Fuel of the Global Weather Enterprise; Erik Andersson (ECMWF)
• Session 1: Business models for data generation and delivery
  • ​Sustainable business models – introduction; Vladimir Tsirkunov (World Bank), Patrick Benichou (Meteo-France International), D. Ivanov
  • Private Public Engagement in Hydromet Services: Preliminary Country Analyses and Frist Findings; Makoto Suwa (GFDRR), Stefan von Grünigen, Christoph Ramshorn (Econcept AG)
  • Climate Information Services Market Assessment and Business Models Review; Cathy Phiri (Winrock Intl)
  • National/regional examples of business and operating models – how the enterprise works at national/regional level:
    • Data Availability, Exchange and Gaps: A Case Study of Tanzania; Agnes Kijazi (Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA))
    • KNMI - I-vision; Corline Koolhaas (KNMI)
    • Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO); Frank Annor (TAHMO)
    • METEORAGE - Lightning Information and Sollution; Dominique Lapeyre de Chavardès (METEORAGE)
• ​​Session 2: Joint Session - CIMO TECO & GWE Conference – Measurement community meets the GWE think tank to discuss sustainable measurements, innovation, related standardization and quality issues
  • ​The Coming Growth In The Global Weather Enterprise: Brought To Earth Through A Small Satellite Constellation Near You; Peter Platzer (Spire)
  • Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainability of Enhanced National Weather Information Services – Conceptual Basis and Global Case Studies; James Anderson (Earth Networks)
  • Crowdsourced data improves temperature forecasts on Yr.no; Thomas Nipen (Norwegian Meteorrological Institute)
  • Quality, standards, fitness-for-purpose - what standards are needed in the GWE?; Alessandra Liberto (Campbell Scientific, Inc)
  • Sustaining observations in extreme conditions; Andrew Harper (MetService, New Zealand)
• Session 3: Data for all Data sharing mechanisms, policies and governance – new perspectives brought by the GWE​​
  • ​Keynote: Meteorology as an information infrastructure: lessons from history; Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University)
  • Data policy now and in the future; Michael Staudinger (ZAMG, Austria)
  • Data sharing - Incentive-based data exchange; Neil Jacobs (NOAA, USA)
  • Data sharing for sustainable development - the evolution of the WMO Information System; Jeremy Tandy (Met Office, UK)
  • The Global Basic Observing Network (GBON) – A WIGOS approach to securing observational data for critical global weather and climate applications; Robert Varley (WMO) 
  • National/regional cases of data sharing policy and practice; compliance, enforcement, deviations: 
    • Public-Private Engagement in Japan - Activities based on the Meteorological Service Act and a new consortium: WXBC; Tatsuya Kimura (JMA, Japan)
    • Data policy and data sharing in USA; Neil Jacobs (NOAA, USA)
    • ECOMET – Facilitating Access; Willie McCairns (ECOMET)
    • Private Sector Perspective on Data Policy in Europe; Dennis Schulze (PRIMET)

The following reports and documents provide information about these events and their outcomes:

• 2014: WMO World Weather Open Science Conference (WWOSC): 2014_WWOSC_Report-Special_Joint_Panel_on_the_Future_of_the_Weather_Enterprise.pdf
• 2016: 68^th Session of WMO Executive Council: WMO_EC-68_2016_-_PPP_special_dialogue.pdf
• 2018: WMO Special Session on Strengthening Pertnership within the Global Weather Enterprise, AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas: Report-AMS-2018_WMO_GWE_session.pdf
• 2018: First Meeting of the Global Weather Enterprise Forum, Singapore: GWEF-1_report_ver04_20180507.pdf