<ul><li>A climate researcher wishes to undertake an annual climate forecast analysis</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>He maintains an automated process that downloads and validates climate observations data, associated <b>observations metadata</b>, data provenance and data Intellectual Property constraints for all available countries in the world</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li>All climate data downloaded is conformant with WMO formal encodings for:</li><br /></p><p><li>METCE</li><br /></p><p><li>WIGOS </li><br /></p><p><li>CDMS</li><br /></p><p><li> </li><br /></p><p><li>The data is automatically ingested into the researcher’s CDMS</li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p><p><ul><li><font color="#2f8cff">The researcher undertakes the required analysis without having to waste considerable time worrying about the formatting of the source data</font></li><br /></p><p></ul><br /></p>