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OVERVIEW OF THE PACIFIC ISLAND REGION GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEM (GCOS) PROGRAM
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Office of the CIO, 1335 East-West Highway, Room 7214, Silver Spring, MD 20910, [email protected] and
Mark L. Morrissey, EVAC, Univ. of Oklahoma, 3200 Marshall Ave., Suite 110, Norman, OK 73072-8032
Basic Elements of a Climate Watch
OBJECTIVES OF GCOS
To provide the data required to meet the needs for:
• Climate system monitoring; Climate change detection
and attribution; and Response monitoring, especially in
terrestrial ecosystems and mean sea level
• Research toward improved understanding, modeling,
and prediction of the climate system
• Application to National Economic Development
• demonstrated benefits of climate forecasts in support of
agriculture
• advance forecasts of El Niño/La Niña events
• improved tropical storm and extreme weather prediction
• increased lead times for drought prediction
WMO GCOS Office Home Page
http://www.wmo.ch/web/gcos/gcoshome.html
Pacific Island Region GCOS Activities
First Regional GCOS Workshop in Apia, Samoa – August 2000
Several Accomplishments to Date
Partnership Established in South Pacific Region; Partners: SPREP, SOPAC, Aust
Follow-up Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii – October 2001
Action Plan Meeting at NIWA in Auckland, NZ – February 2002
Implementation Plan Meeting in Nadi, Fiji – March 2002
Ocean Observations User Conference in October 2002 in Nadi, Fiji
Concept of a Regional PI-GCOS Steering Committee Endorsed by the GCOS Steer
Selection of a Regional PI-GCOS Program Officer – October 2003
Data Management Workshop Planned in Dec 2003 – Auckland, NZ
New PI-GCOS Program Officer at SPREP – January 2004
U.S. Partnering with Australia and New Zealand via Bi-Lateral Climate Partnership
PI-GCOS Conceptual Framework
WMO / IOC / UNEP / ICSU
GCOS
Secretariat
WMO
SubRegional
Office
GOOS
UNFCCC
GCOS Surface Network (GSN)
GCOS
Steering
Committee
PI-GCOS
Steering
Committee
GCOS OBSERVING NETWORKS
PI-GCOS Activities
 Selection of GUAN and GSN Site Support Dependent
on Inputs from AOPC, GCOS Secretariat, and Donors
 These Site Selections are Outside the Scope of the
PI-GCOS Regional Program and are Dependent Upon
the Global Requirements for the GCOS Networks
 GUAN Sites in PI-Region to be Updated w/FY03
Funds
 Penrhyn Island, Cook Islands
Other GUAN Site Support for FY03 [Africa – 4; Indian Ocean – 1;
South America - 1]
 GUAN Sites in PI-Region Considered for FY04
SPREP
Funding in Priority Order
 Honiara, Solomon Islands
 Christmas Island, Kiribati
 Rarotonga, Cook Islands
GTOS
 GSN Sites in PI-Region for FY04 Funding – TBD
 Use of AWS an Issue Being Explored (Maintenance and Continuity
Issues)
 Complementary Technology
Stakeholders
PI-GCOS Officer
GCOS
National
Coordinators
989 Stations
Keys to Regional GCOS Success
GCOS Upper Air Network (GUAN)
PI-GCOS Implementation
 Regional GCOS Implementation Plan
Developed
 Prioritized list of 31 Projects in 5 Objective
Areas
Advocacy
 Sustaining Operational Observing Networks
 Managing and Exchanging Regional GCOS
Data
 Accessing and Developing Products and
Services
 Building Capacity for Long-Term PI-GCOS
Sustainability
 Selected Projects With Identified Funding
 Regional GCOS Coordinator
 Demonstration Project for the Development of
Synoptic Climatologies
 Expanding the Use of Climate Prediction
 Data Rescue
 Regional Maintenance and Logistics Support
 Pacific Data Portal – [through the GOSIC]
 Scope of the other 27 Pacific Island GCOS
Projects is in the range of $24M (US) over the
period from 2003 through 2008
Need to have a focused regional organization that is
willing to take up the mantle of advancing GCOS in
the region; a regional program officer is desired but
not necessarily required. In the Pacific Region,
SPREP was a natural for this.
Need a solid and consolidated planning mechanism to
advance projects in the region
Need to identify partners and donors willing to
participate in regional projects and/or contribute
resources
150 Stations
Leveraging upon existing bi-lateral and multi-lateral
agreements that can incorporate GCOS projects is a
key factor to consider (e.g., US/New Zealand Climate
Change Partnership and new Group on Earth
Observations)
Representation needs to consist of persons with
interest in advancing GCOS in the region rather than
being based upon national representation
Broad-based membership - Partners need to come
from inside and outside the meteorological
community; GCOS is more than a meteorological
system
One key to success in the Pacific has been to advance
PI-GCOS from the “grass-roots”