Commission for Basic Systems

Workshop of World Meteorological Centres

Beijing, China, 26-29 March 2019

07-Apr-2019

1. Documents

• Provisional Agenda (as of 24 March 2019)
• Provisional participant List (as of 21 March 2019)
• Key questions to be addressed and expected outcomes
• Questionnaire for WMCs

2. Presentations and summaries of group discussions

   Summary of the Workshop

   Agenda 1

     Presentation

• GDPFS Today
• Research Today
• Implementation Plan on S/GDPFS
• WIS 2.0 Implementation Plan

     Summaries of group discussions

• Group 1 - System, Accessibility and Research/Innovation
• Group 2 - System, Accessibility and Research/Innovation
• Group 3 - System, Accessibility and Research/Innovation

   Agenda 2

     Presentation

• An overview of significant gaps and way forward to enhance the capacity of NMHSs in Africa
• Use of WMCs products for preparation of Regional and National weather and climate information: current status and perspectives with a pilot S/GDPFS project
• Current status and priorities for tropical cyclone research and operations – insights and perspectives from IWTC-9

     Summaries of group discussions

• Group 1 - Capacity development and Data sharing mechanism
• Group 2 - Capacity development and Data sharing mechanism
• Group 3 - Capacity development and Data sharing mechanism

   Agenda 3

     Presentation

• Key points for IP revision

   Agenda 4

     Presentation

• Summary of Agenda 4

     Summaries of group discussions

• Group 1 - Overall coordination mechanism
• Group 2 - Overall coordination mechanism
• Group 3 - Overall coordination mechanism

   Agenda for WMCs mechanism to support Humanitarian Activities

     Presentation

• Needs from Humanitarian Agencies
• Humanitarian Activities from CMA Aspects

3. References for each agenda item

     Agenda 1: The draft of SEAMLESS GDPFS IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (as of 18 Mar 2019)

     Agenda 4

• Matrix of responses to questionnaire for WMCs (Please refer each individual response in section 2 for more information, as of 28 March 2019)
• Response from WMC Melbourne, Australia
• Response from WMC Montreal, Canada
• Response from WMC Beijing, China
• Response form WMC ECMWF
• Response from WMC Offenbach, Germany
• Response from WMC Moscow, Russia
• Response from WMC Exeter, UK
• Response from WMC Washington, USA

4. Other references

• Reform presentation- CBR-TF
• Constituent Bodies Reform - substructures and presidents and vice presidents
• EC70 Strategic Plan

5. General Information

• Local Information Note
• Nomination/registration forms 
• Individual expert
• Individual expert to be nominated by PR