The European (RA VI)

Regional Climate Centre

Network

Peter Bissolli

Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany

WMO RA VI Regional Climate Centre (RCC)

The WMO Region VI (Europe)

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What is a Regional Climate Centre (RCC) ?RCCs are Centres of ExcellenceCentres of Excellence that assist WMO Members assist WMO Members in a given region to deliver better climate servicesbetter climate services and productsand products including regional long-range forecasts, and to strengthen their capacity to meet national climate information national climate information needsneeds .

� WMO activity (with mandate of WMO)

� Regional component of the Global Framework for Clim ate Services (GFCS) in the GFCS - pillar “Climate Service Information System (C SIS)”

� Users: other RCCs and the NMHSs (end users are custo mers of the NHMSs)

RCC in the RAVI:� Poll in 2008 led to product portfolio (fixed in the implementation plan)

� Start as pilot network in 2009; 3 nodes; each node formed by a consortium

� CBS XV (09/2012): approval of nomination of the pil ot RCC network to become the WMO RAVI RCC network

� Final decision by EC in May 2013 (RCC to be assigned as an RSMC of WMO)

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WMO RAVI Pilot RCC-Network

� RCCs provide regional-scale tailored climate services on

�Climate Data

�Climate Monitoring

�Climate Outlook and projections

Picture from WMO

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RA VI RCC Pilot Network RCC on Climate Data (red):France, Hungary, Norway, Serbia, Sweden, Turkey; lead: The Netherlands

RCC on Climate Monitoring(yellow): Armenia, France, The Netherlands, Serbia, Turkey; lead: Germany

RCC on Long-range Forecasting (green):Norway, Serbia, Turkey; lead: France, Russian Federation

WMO Pilot RCC-Network in Europe ( http://www.rccra6.org ):

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RAVI RCC Product summary

� RCC on Climate Data:

� various data sets for Europe, both station data and gridded data (ECA/D, MILLENNIUM, ENSEMBLES, BALTEX, SHARK) and various sub-regional data sets

� Services: Archiving functions, data management tools

� RCC on Climate Monitoring

� Maps, reference climatologies, anomalies, indices, trends, statistics

� reports, significant weather event data base, climate watch (advisories on possible future events),

� RCC on Long-Range Forecasting (seasonal forecasts)

� Seasonal forecast bulletins, maps and graphs on model performance, seasonal outlooks, consensus statements, model verification

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RCC-CM products in general:

� Maps, including from satellites

� Gridded data sets for download

� Documentation of significant events

� Monthly and annual reports

� Climate watches

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RCC-CM – products from members of the consortiums:

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http://ecad.knmi.nl/ http://www.meteo.fr/special/CLIM/clim_model.html

RCC-CM – products from members of the consortiums:

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RCC-CM products: The Climate Knowledge Database

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Access to RCC network information and products

� Website http://www.rccra6.orghttp://www.rccra6.org

� General description

� Links to

� Documents

� Meeting information

� Contact details

� Links to all RCC nodes, including product catalogues

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Access to RCC network products - overview

� Internet� Recommended by implementation plan

� Should include product catalogue for each node as PDF including examples for products

� Access without restriction

� Most products of RCC-CD and RCC-CM

� Access with restriction

� For RCC-LRF products and gridded data from RCC-CM

� Through the respective NMHS

� User and password authorised by host of RCC node

� Via one of the WMO Global Information System Centre s (GISCs)� Additional access option

� Also offers search for RCC products (if smart keywords used)

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RCC on Climate Monitoring ( http://www.dwd.de/rcc-cm ):

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How to go on?

� Upcoming challenges and opportunities

� Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)

� GMES Climate Core Service

� Interaction with other RCCs

� New inter-regional RCCs, e.g. for the Polar Region, Mediterranean

� Add new products, new regional partners, enhance consortium

� Improve user friendliness

� Better integration of RCC webpages; WMO design

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More general information on RCCs

More general information on RCCs: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/dra/eur/documents/RCC%20Network/RCC_flyer_April2010_EN.pdf

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