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. Meriem Alaouri, Morocco
2. Guofu Wang, China
3. TBD
4. Christiana Lief, USA
5. TBD
6. Mithat Ekici, Turkey