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GCW Support for an Arctic PRCC-Network
R. Kolli* and B.Goodison
*Climate
& Water Department, WMO
With contributions from:
Vasily Smolyanitsky (RU), Hilppa Gregow (FI), Marina Livezey (US), Richard
Thoman (US), Wanqiu Wang (US), Chantale Cote (CA), Lena Lindstrom (SE),
Ernesto Rodrigez (ES), Chenghu Sun (CN)
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Regional Climate Centres (RCCs)
• RCCs are Centres of Excellence, designated through through the WMO
Technical Regulations to perform regional-scale climate functions, e.g.:
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Operational LRF and Climate Monitoring
Coordination between RCCs, GPCs and NMHSs in the region
Data services
Climate Applications
Training and capacity building
Research and Development
• RCCs are complementary to and supportive of NMHSs, who will deliver
all Warnings and national-scale products
• Establishment of RCCs will be initiated by Regional Associations, based
on regional needs and priorities
• WMO RCCs are part of WMO’s baseline infrastructure; Members shall
follow or implement standard practices and procedures
User Needs for Arctic PRCC
 “National Strategies” – priorities placed upon
stewardship, responsible resource development,
international collaboration
 Economic drivers: natural resources, tourism,
transportation
 Ecosystem changes: permafrost degradation,
increasing runoff, coastal erosion, reduced ice
thickness
 Arctic Populations/communities commonly
distributed along or dependent on coastal waterways
and river systems for access and subsistence
Arctic PRCC Target Users
 NMHSs
 Arctic Council
 Federal Stakeholders – local governments
 Global Users
 Partners
 Scientific Consortiums
 Additional Users
Value Added
 Covering unique polar regional elements
 Bringing unified and harmonized view to core services
 Upscaling /downscaling capabilities
 Avoiding contradictions from various sources
 Sharing information / common data base
 Addressing more requirements
 Reducing costs to individual service provider
 Considering national concerns and feedback
 Creating common wealth of knowledge
Arctic PRRC Geographic Domain
• Defined by elements
• Identified by AC
• Permafrost / glaciers/ sea
ice extent
• Indigenous People
Parameters of interest
 Cryosphere
 Sea and Freshwater Ice
 Snow Cover
 Glaciers, Ice Caps, and Ice Sheets
 Permafrost
 Atmosphere
 SLP, Ta, precipitation
 Storminess, winds, atmospheric circulation patterns
 Polar oceanography
 Water temperature, Salinity
 Sea level
 Waves
 River runoffs
 Land issues
 Coastal and river erosion
 Fresh water runoffs
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WMO RCC: Definitions
WMO-RCC
– A multifunctional centre that fulfils all the required functions of an RCC for the entire
region, or for a sub-region to be defined by the regional association
WMO RCC-Network
– A group of centres performing climate-related activities that collectively fulfil all the
required functions of an RCC
WMO RCC-Network Node
– a centre in a designated WMO RCC-Network
– a node will perform, for the region or sub-region defined by the regional association,
one or several of the mandatory RCC activities (e.g. long-range forecasting (LRF),
climate monitoring, climate data services, training).
In the case of the Arctic, it is likely that a network approach will be adopted. This
will require co-operation across 3 WMO regional associations (RAII, IV, VI)
GCW and AMAP have expressed a strong interest in contributing to PRCC
development and operations. Process TBD
RCC Functions
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Mandatory, for RCC designation:
• Operational Activities for long range forecasts (LRF)
• Operational Activities for Climate Monitoring
• Operational Data Services, to support operational LRF and
climate monitoring
• Training in the use of operational RCC products and services
Highly Recommended:
• Climate prediction and projection
• Non-operational data services
• Coordination functions
• Training and capacity building
• Research and development
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WMO RCC Status Worldwide
NEACC
BCC
ACMAD
CIIFEN
ICPAC
Designated RCCs
Designated RCC-Networks
RCCs in Demonstration Phase
RCC-Networks in Demo Phase
RCCs Proposed
RCC-Networks Proposed
SADC-CSC
TCC
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Arctic PRCC-Network and International
Partnerships
• To ensure the efficient operation of the proposed Arctic PRCCNetwork, it is important to liaise with and build strong partnership
with various international communities either beyond the WMO
scope or WMO initiatives with significant non-NMHS
participation.
• Those include but are not limited to the Arctic Council (AC),
Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW), the Global Integrated Polar
Prediction System (GIPPS), the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP),
Aboriginal Communities, and so on.
Discussed Elements (within the zone of each PRCC responsibility)
 Operational activity for LRF, additional elements:
 interpretation and estimates: sea ice, atmosphere, etc,; monthly or quarterly.
 reparation of regional and sub-regional products: sea ice, polar oceanography;
10 days – 1 month
 consensus statement: sea ice, atmosphere; semiannual-annual
 Verification: sea ice, atmosphere….
 Operational activity for climate monitoring, additional elements:
 climate diagnosis: actual and anomaly values of sea ice, atmosphere, polar
oceanography…..
 Development of historical climatology for region/subregion: sea ice, polar
oceanography……
Service Delivery
 PRCC-Network
 Monthly/quaterly bulletin of PRCC
 Polar Climate Outlook Forums (?)
 Portal (Amazon style to individual service providers –
PRCC-Network and NMHSs)
 Leverage WIS, CSIS, and other existing sources
 Seamless suite of products
 daily, monthly (monitoring)
 monthly, seasonal, decadal timescales (prediction and
projection)
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GCW Contributions to the Arctic-PRCC
Network (as per Concept Paper)
• GCW may ensure a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable system of
observations and information to allow for a more complete understanding of
the cryosphere and to contribute to improved observations, research and
services. The GCW surface network – CryoNet –could support the RCC
mandatory and highly recommended functions.
• GCW products, tailored to the pan-Arctic region, and the associated
assessment and intercomparison of cryosphere products, would be a
contribution to the PRCC effort.
In addition:
• GCW efforts in, for example, establishing guidelines/best practices,
terminology, user requirements and services, data rescue, validation should
support PRCC operations.
• GCW contributions will include both national and collaborative inputs
Way Forward
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EC-68 aims to achieve endorsement of RAII, IV and VI to proceed
Concept will be reviewed by stakeholders, then refined and endorsed by ECPHORS to serve as basis for an IP
representatives of existing international efforts, such as GCW, that can provide
operational and sustainable support to PRCC-Network need to be closely
involved and their potential roles adequately captured in the IP.
Meeting of potential contributors of the network is planned for late 2016
Demonstration phase initiated tentatively 2017
GCW challenges:
• Determining which GCW contributions can be aligned to Arctic-PRCC timeline
• increase number of GCW reps engaged in national PRCC implementation
(currently, Rick Thoman (USA), Vasily Smolyanitsky (Russia))
• Snow Watch team to identify products and information to support Arctic-PRCC
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