A joint WMO and Government of Greece project to Enhance Climate Services launched in March in collaboration with the Meteorological Services of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, and the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development is already yielding encouraging results. The objectives of the project included:
- Modernization and re-arrangement of paper archives;
- Consolidation of national climate databases by centralizing storage; and
- Identification of imaging priorities for digitization of paper archive and establishment of procedures for a sustainable imaging process.
By the end of September 2015, in all three countries, a data management system, CLIDATA, was being used for keying data into the main national climatological database, to help develop products and services for agriculture, water, health, disaster risk reduction and others.
The project is also proving to be successful in raising awareness of the importance of data rescue and providing an approach for accelerating this activity based on local efforts and experience. The three Meteorological Services have expressed their commitment to sustaining data rescue. WMO will use of this approach to expand data rescue to other countries in the region.
By the end of September 2015, in all three countries, a data management system, CLIDATA, was being used for keying data into the main national climatological database, to help develop products and services for agriculture, water, health, disaster risk reduction and others.
The project is also proving to be successful in raising awareness of the importance of data rescue and providing an approach for accelerating this activity based on local efforts and experience. The three Meteorological Services have expressed their commitment to sustaining data rescue. WMO will use of this approach to expand data rescue to other countries in the region.
New data archive system in Burkina Faso.
