WMO Data Conference Virtual Conference, 16 − 19 November 2020 Conference Program (Version 1.5, 16 Nov 2020) Conducted virtually via Zoom Times are Central European Time (CET) UTC +1 hour Day 1: 16 November 2020 Time (CET) Item Speaker/Presenter Opening of the Meeting Dr Anthony Rea, Director 13:00−13:05 Logistics and Introduction of the program Infrastructure WMO Welcome, Opening of the WMO Data Conference Prof. Gerhard Adrian, 13:05-13:15 President of WMO WMO Priorities for 2020-2023: Data Policy and Moving Toward Earth Prof. Petteri Taalas, 13:15−13:30 System Modeling and Prediction. Secretary General, WMO Keynote address: Origin of WMO Data Exchange and Resolution 40 Dr. John Zillman, former 13:30-13:45 President of WMO 13:45−13:55 Progress toward a new overarching WMO Data Policy resolution in 2021 Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Deputy Director, WMO Chair: Michel Jean, President, WMO Session 1: The changing landscape of weather, water and climate data Infrastructure Commission Introduction to Session 1; Dr. Sue Barrell, Australia 14:00−14:15 Report from Preparatory Workshop on Theme 1 and relevant Stakeholder Consultations Prof. Penny Endersby, 14:15−14.30 The Evolving Meteorological Data Landscape Chief Executive, UK MetOffice Dr. Gilberto Camara, 14:30−14:45 Open Data Policy in the Age of Big Data Executive Director, GEO Secretariat Dr. Kornelia Radics, 14.45−15.00 Data Policy and Practice – the Case of Hungary President, Hungarian Met Service Peer Fietzek, Kongsberg 15:00–15:15 Next generation of seaborne meteorological and oceanographic data Maritime, Germany collection from vessels Moderated by Session 15:15–15:50 Panel discussion, Q&A with virtual audience Chair 15:50–16:00 Summary of key statements Session Chair 16:00 Adjourn, day 1 Day 2: 17 November 2020 Time (CET) Item Speaker/Presenter Session Chair: Kevin Session 2: Business models and data policy issues Petty, IBM Session Chair and Introduction to Session 2; Dr. Michael Staudinger, 13:00−13:15 Report from Preparatory Workshop on Theme 2 and relevant Stakeholder CEO of Austrian Met Consultations Service Dr. Arlene Laing, Coordinating Director of A Caribbean Perspective on Data and Partnerships for National Hydro- 13:15−13:30 the Caribbean Meteorological Services and Key Stakeholders Meteorological Organization - 1 - WMO Data Conference Virtual Conference, 16 − 19 November 2020 One Observation Policy to bridge data exchange between public and Urip Haryoko, BMKG 13:30−13:45 private sector Indonesia Daisuke Abe, Executive Officer, 13:45–14:00 A Private Sector View of WMO Data Policy as an Enabler for Improved Service Operation Service Delivery (TBC) and Development Weathernews Inc. Zeng Qin, China 14:00-14:15 Open Data Policy for Digital Economy Innovation Meteorological Administration Dr. Rick Anthes, United 14:15−14:30 Data Sharing for Research and Operations States of America Moderated by Session 14:30–15:00 Panel discussion, Q&A with virtual audience Chair 15:00–15:15 Summary of key statements Session Chair 15:15–16:00 Virtual Poster Session (Themes 1 & 2; see poster program below) 16:00 Adjourn, day 2 Day 3: 18 November 2020 Time (CET) Item Speaker/Presenter Chair: Dr. Michael Session 3: Filling the gaps in global data coverage Staudinger, President RA-VI Dr. Erik Andersson, Introduction to Session 3; European Commission 13:00−13:15 Report from Preparatory Workshop on Theme 3 and relevant Stakeholder and Consultations Daouda Konaté, President, WMO RA-I The value of regional observations to global NWP and the value of global Dr. Stephen English, 13:15−13:30 NWP to regions ECMWF Prof. Gerhard Adrian, PR 13:30-13:45 GBON and SOFF: Addressing Gaps in Global Data Coverage Germany and WMO president Public-Private Partnerships and Data Exchange: Experience from the Nick van de Giesen, 13:45−14:00 Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) TAHMO Dr. Agnes Kijazi, Director Changing Landscape of Weather and Climate Data: Perspectives of 14:00-14:15 General of Tanzania NMHSs in RA-1 Meteorological Agency Dr. Anthony Rea, The Satellite Data Landscape: Outcomes of Stakeholder Consultation on 14:15–14:30 Director Infrastructure Satellite Data and WMO Data Policy WMO Moderated by Session 14:30–15:00 Panel discussion, Q&A with virtual audience Chair 15:00-15:15 Summary of key statements Session Chair 15:15–16:00 Virtual Poster Session (Themes 3 & 4, see poster program below) 16:00 Adjourn, day 3 - 2 - WMO Data Conference Virtual Conference, 16 − 19 November 2020 Day 4: 19 November Time Item 2020 Speaker/Presenter (CET) Chair: Dr. Gilbert Brunet, Chair, WMO Session 4: Data exchange for Earth System Monitoring and Prediction Scientific Advisory Panel Introduction to Session 4; Session Chair and Dr. 13:00−13:15 Report from Preparatory Workshop on Theme 4 and relevant David Legler, NOAA Stakeholder Consultations Dr. Florence Rabier, 13:15−13:30 Making Data Accessible ECMWF Dr. Zeinab Salah 13:30–13:45 Data Exchange for Earth System Monitoring and Prediction Mahmoud, Egypt Dr. Klemen Bergant, Director of Slovenian 13:45−14:00 New Data Policy in South-East Europe Meteorological and Hydrological Office Dr. Emma Heslop, Key challenges and opportunities towards improving ocean data delivery Intergovernmental 14:00−14.15 for WMO services Oceanographic Commission Moderated by Session 14:15–14:50 Panel discussion, Q&A with virtual audience Chair 14:50–15:00 Summary of key statements Session Chair Chair: Michel Jean, President, WMO Integrating the Outcomes of the Themes in a Conference Statement and Closure Infrastructure Commission 15:00−15.35 Panel discussion with Session Chairs; virtual audience Moderator 15:35−15.50 Presentation of draft Conference Statement Session Chair WMO President, Secretary 15:50–16:00 Closing Remarks General 16:00 Data Conference Adjourn - 3 - WMO Data Conference Virtual Conference, 16 − 19 November 2020 Poster Session Theme 1 & Theme 2 Time: Nov.17 15:15 – 16:00 Theme 1: The changing landscape of weather, water and climate data (17, Nov, 15:15 – 16:00) No. Title Author Identification of Building-Climatic Guidelines for Georgia liana Kartvelishvili, National Environmental Agency of 1.01 considering Regional Climate Change Georgia Global Surface Observation Bulletin Integrity Analyze Prof. LIU Yiming, CMA-NMIC 1.02 and Format Fault-tolerant Mechanism in CMA The Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center Dr. Matthew A. Lazzara 1.03 Madison Area Technical College 1.04 Sharing and reusing meteorological data Ionut Iosifescu Enescu, WSL FengYun Meteorological Satellite Data Resources and Zhe XU, National Satellite Meteorological Center, CMA 1.05 Service 1.06 Open data distributed on Amazon’s cloud service Roope Tervo, Finnish Meteorological Institute Access and harmonization of in-situ data records for the Fabio Madonna et al., Consiglio Nazionale delle 1.07 Copernicus Climate Change Service Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, Italy Experiments with recent sources of GNSSRO profiles for Josep M. Aparicio, Environment and Climate Change 1.08 NWP: What we learned at ECCC Canada Observations of the Global Terrestrial Water Resources Dr. Stephan Dietrich, International Centre for Water 1.09 Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC), Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Koblenz, Germany Requirements and approaches for data collection and Dr. Jörg Klausen, MeteoSwiss, WMO Expert Team on 1.10 exchange of atmospheric composition data in WMO Atmospheric Composition Data Management Climate Data Management in India Meteorological Sudeep Kumar, India Meteorological Department, 1.11 Department; Advances and Future Perspectives Ministry of Earth Sciences Meteorological and Floating Ice Observations from Alvaro Scardilli, Naval Hydrographic Service in Argentina Ships in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean and Western 1.12 Antarctica: Development of Products and Services for Safety at Sea Theme 2: Business models and data policy issues (17, Nov, 15:15 – 16:00) No. Title Author 2.01 The WWRP/WCRP S2S Database Frédéric Vitart, ECMWF Commercial microwave link signal level data from the Christian Chwala, University of Augsburg 2.02 cellular backhaul network: A private datasource for rainfall information, still to be fully unlocked Data Exchange for the Purposes of Earth System Dr Latifou Issaou, 2.03 Forecasting and Monitoring National Meteorology (Togo) COSPARIN PROJECT Spatial Contribution to Flood Risk GUILLAUME LAHACHE, Predict Services 2.04 Analysis Historical data exchange – progress and challenges Peter Thorne, University of Maynooth; 2.05 GCOS Secretariat Public-Private Engagement in enhancing observation – Eizi Toyoda (SHIMPO Akihiko), JMA 2.06 opportunities and challenges Ocean FAIR Data Services Toste Tanhua, 2.07 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel WMO-IATA Collaborative AMDAR Programme – WICAP Curtis H. Marshall, 2.08 A new paradigm for public-private cooperation on US National Weather Service upper-air observations The problems and countermeasures of meteorological Dingzhen ZHU, 2.09 data capitalisation in current information economy Pubic Meteorological Service Center, CMA 2.10 Data policy issues for in-situ observation-based climate Kate Willett, - 4 - WMO Data Conference Virtual Conference, 16 − 19 November 2020 monitoring and services Met Office The Ocean Race Science - ‘Racing with Purpose’ Anne-Cécile Turner, 2.11 The Ocean Race Developing a framework to transform and uplift data Belinda Campbell, 2.12 exchange and management capabilities Bureau of Meteorology Delft-FEWS: Enabling ensemble, probabilistic and Albrecht Weerts,