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RA II Expert Group on WIGOS – First Session

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

31 October – 1 November 2016

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Monday, 31 October

Opening (Chair: Mr Abdullah Ahmed Al Mandoos)

Speaker

09:00

Welcome remarks, Director-General of the National Centre for Meteorology & Seismology, Permanent Representative of United Arab Emirates

Mr Abdullah Ahmed Al Mandoos

09:10

Statement by the Representative of WMO Secretary-General

Dr Igor Zahumensky

09:20

Opening remarks by the Co-Coordinator RA II EG-WIGOS

Mr Yongqing Chen

09:30

General Introduction and objective of the meeting

Mr Ryuji Yamada

09:45

Review of WIGOS implementation in RA II

Doc   Presentation

Dr Igor Zahumensky

10:00

Coffee/Tea Break

Reporting/Projects Assessment (Chair: Mr Yongqing Chen)

Speaker

 

Review of RA-II WIGOS Projects Status:

10:30

I. Monitor & review Implementation of EGOS- IP in RAII

Mr Yatian Guo

10:50

III. Observing systems integration for supporting disaster risk reduction: 1) Integration of Surface-based Remote Sensing Data in the East Asia, 2) Capacity Building in Radar Techniques in the Southeast Asia

Mr Yoshiro Tanaka

11:10

Jakarta Declaration: The “Radar Data Project”

Mr Yoshiro Tanaka

11:20

IV. Enhance the Availability and Quality Management Support for NMHSs in Surface, Climate and Upper-air Observations

Mr Nobuyuki Tanaka

11:40

V. Developing a Sand & Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System (SDS-WAS) in Asia Node

Ms Lijuan Shi

12:00

VI. Develop Support for NMHSs in Satellite Data, Products and Training

Mr Hiroshi Kunimatsu            

(by videoconference)

12:20

The Jakarta Declaration: The “Satellite Data Project”

Dr Dohyeong Kim

(by videoconference)

12:30

Lunch Break

Reporting/Projects Assessment (Cont.) (Chair: Mr Yongqing Chen)

Speaker

14:00

II. Standard and best practice Portal, including technical documents with necessary details in English from all RA II Members

Mr Cjun-Woon Choi

 (by videoconference)

WIGOS Pre-operational Phase (2016-2019) Chair: Mr Yongqing Chen

Speaker

14:20

Recommendations from Cg-17 and EC-68 

Doc   Presentation

Dr Igor Zahumensky

14:50

OSCAR/Surface

Mr Luis Filipe Nunes

15:20

Concept of Regional Basic Observing Network

Doc   Presentation

Dr Igor Zahumensky

15:50

Coffee/Tea Break

16:10

WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System

Mr Luis Filipe Nunes

16:40

National WIGOS and OSCAR/Surface Focal Points in RA II

Mr Ryuji Yamada

Tuesday, 1 November

The way forward (Chair: Mr Yongqing Chen)

Speaker

09:00

Concept of Regional WIGOS Centres

Dr Igor Zahumensky

09:20

Regional WIGOS Centres in RA II – Discussion

All

10:30

Coffee/Tea Break

10:50

Review of R-WIP in RA II

Mr Yoshiro Tanaka

11:10

Update of R-WIP in RA II

All

11:50

RBSN/RBCN in RA II – Updates

Ms Ranju Madan

12:10

Protection of Radio frequencies in RA II

Mr David Thomas                             (by videoconference)

12:30

Lunch Break

Conclusions and Recommendations ( Chair: Mr Yongqing Chen)

14:00

Conclusions to be submitted to RA II-16, Feb 2017

All

15:20

Coffee/Tea Break

15:40

Recommendations to the WIGOS Workshop for West Asia

All

Closure (Chair: Mr Yongqing Chen)

Speaker

16:40

Closing remarks

Dr Igor Zahumensky

Mr Abdullah A. Al Mandoos

References

WIGOS Technical Regulations

Plan for the WIGOS Pre-operational Phase (PWPP): PWPP

RA II WIGOS Implementation Plan (R-WIP-II):

Implementation Plan for the Evolution of Observing Systems

(EGOS-IP): English, Russian, Chinese

www.wmo.int/wigos

 





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