Regional Association II (RA II) Training Workshop on Regional WIGOS Centre (RWC) Functions and Tools (online)

Regional Association II (RA II) Training Workshop on Regional WIGOS Centre (RWC) Functions and Tools (online)

Documents:

• Expected outcomes and provisonal program
• List of participants
• Final report

PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS:

Part I: RA II Workshop on RWC functions and WIGOS tools

1. Monday 5 July 2021

• Introduction and opening, Chief of ONM Division and Chair of RA II WG Infrastructure
• Introduction to RA II RWC, Ryuji Yamada, WMO Programme Officer 
• Activities of RA II RWC : RWC Beijing & RWC Tokyo
• Roles and responsibilities of WIGOS related NFPs in the context of RWC, Luis Filipe Nunes, WIGOS Scientific Officer
• Introduction to WIS Centres and its link with RWC, Enrico Fucile, Chief of Data and Information Management Division, WMO Secretariat (TBC)
• Introduction to the WIGOS Data Quality Monitoring System (WDQMS), Tanja Kleinert, DWD Germany
• Introduction to the OSCAR/Surface online course, Luisa Ickes, Consultant

2. Monday 12 July 2021

• Introduction to the WDQMS Webtool and potential differences in results of WIGOS Monitoring Centres, Cristina Prates, ECMWF
• How to evaluate data availability and data accuracy, Tanja Kleinert, DWD Germany
• Incident Management System for RWC, Zulkarnain, WMO Secretariat
• Examples of monitoring, evaluation and issues solving using the RWC tools, Samantha Linnerts, RWC Southern Africa

Part II: Training course on OSCAR/SURFACE for NFPs

1. Technical preparatory session, Tuesday 29 June 2021

Registration of participants in OSCAR/Surface DEPL and Moodle and answer questions.

2. Tuesday - Friday, 6 - 9 July 2021

Training activities on Teams Meeting and Moodle.