GFCS Dialogue Side Event:

World Meteorological Organization -

Building international consortium for accelerating Data Rescue and bringing the development of high quality climate data for the 21st century climate services

6 pm, Friday 26 October

Salle 3 (Ground floor)

Objective:

Federate existing regional and international climate data initiatives and seek convergence for scoping multi-lateral initiatives / consortia for the Rescue, Digitisation and Homogenization of climate records

Overall Idea

The side event will cover the following issues and questions:

1. Multilateral beneficial Data initiative for Climate assessment and adaptation,
2. What capacity development is needed for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries in climate data?
3. Why do we need collaborative efforts on Data Rescue, Homogenization and Digitization of records?

Speakers

- Dr. Daniel Cano Villaverde, Permanent Representative of Spain to WMO
- Dr. Mamadou Lamine BAH, President of WMO RA-I, Permanent Representative of Guinea to WMO
- Dr. Manola Brunet, Co-chair Open Panel of CCl Experts on climate monitoring and assessment (OPACE-II), Director Climate Change Centre, University of Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
- Dr Aryan Van Engelen, Co-Chair CCl Expert Team on Data Rescue, Program manager, European climate Support Network of the EUMETNET and Director operations of European Climate Assessment and Data sets project, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Netherlands

Further links http://www.omm.urv.cat/MEDARE/

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/wcdmp/CDM_2.php

Last Update 22-Oct-2012

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