Inter-programme Expert Team on the Climate Data Modernization Programme (IPET-CDMP)

Terms of Reference

1. Develop consistent guidance around climate data from various sources, and metadata, including on standards for preservation, archiving, management and information services; that would boost the availability, discovery and the exchange of climate data with the required quality and timeliness;
2. Undertake tasks to review and update the applicable WMO Technical Regulations and guidance documents, defining as deemed necessary new technical regulations relevant to data and metadata in support of climate;
3. Recommend training and capacity development strategies and identify the elements of the required global infrastructure;
4. Further develop the proposed redefinition of the Climatological Standard Normals as a Technical Regulation to Cg-17, and develop a communication strategy to explain the use of the new standard to Members and their key stakeholders; 
5. Investigate ways to combine satellite information with station observations for vulnerable and data sparse areas by filling spatial and temporal gaps in existing climate observations;
6. Engage with other technical commissions and other groups such as WIGOS, WIS, GCOS, JCOMM in matters on climate data.

Members

1. Matteo Dell'Acqua, CBS (co-leader)
2. William Wright, Australia (co-leader)
3. Christiana Lief, USA
4. Guofu Wang, China
5. Lydia Gates, JCOMM
6. Meriem Alaouri, Morocco
7. Michel Rixen, WCRP
8. Mithat Ekici, Turkey
9. Caterina Tassone, GCOS

Documents

• Concept of Operation of HQ-GDFMC (Draft)

Meetings

• Expert Meeting on Climate Data Modernisation KNMI, De Bilt, the Netherlands, 16-18 April 2018