Commission for Climatology

Capacity Development (Open Panel of CCl Experts - OPACE 5)

CCl is one of the WMO

eight technical

commissions

Vision Statement

To provide world leadership in promoting expertise and international cooperation

in climatology

16th Session of the CCl Heidelberg, Germany, 3–8 July 2014

Technical Conference

Deliverables

Content by Chapters

Participants at the 16th Session of the CCl

WMO CCL web site

16th Intersession Period 2014-2018 Management Group

Structure

Capacity Development (OPACE 5)

Co-chairs: Joseph Daniel Intsiful (Ghana) Tanja Cegnar (Slovenia) WMO: Amir Delju

Objective To ensure that capacity development activities in CCl are: - inclusive, - have the potential of being sustained, - dynamically evolve to meet emerging requirements. This component of CCl is jointly involved with the Education and Training Programme of WMO in the development of commonly applicable tools and methods for standardized training of climatology and climate services. OPACE 5 seeks to strengthen the delivery of capacity development services through regional and institutional mechanisms.

Capacity Development is a major cross-cutting pillar of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) that explicitly addresses institutional, infrastructural, procedural and human resource capacities.

OPACE 5 considers this GFCS pillar as a foundation for the CCl strategy for capacity development covering the specific requirements identified by each OPACE, at the same time addressing other enabling elements of the requirements such as institutions, infrastructure and personnel.

OPACE 5 also identifies a great potential to improve communication and outreach, through social media, particularly in the areas which deal with uncertainty in climate products, impending climate impacts, including their socio-economic implications; and communication between climate service providers and sectoral users.

Expert Team on Quality Management (ET-QM) Expert Team on Infrastructural and Institutional Capabilities (ET-IIC) Advisors on Social Media Task Team on the Guide to Climatological Practices Expert Team on Education and Training (ET-ETR)

Expert Team on Quality Management (ET-QM)

• Fatima Zahra Bensaid, Morocco (Leader) • Huanping Wu, China • Barbara Tapia, Chile • Willis Mills, Trinidad and Tobago • Helen Tseros, Australia • Yilmaz Açar, Turkey • Charlotte McBride, South Africa

Expert Team on Quality Management (ET-QM) • Advise on priorities and approaches to develop and implement a

strategy on quality management (QM) for climatology, with consideration given to experience gained in other Commissions on WMO-QMF;

• Report on best practices in QM in other disciplines and foster their adaptation to NMHSs, RCCs and other climate institutions considering the wide spectrum of levels of competency and sophistication in climate activities;

• Develop an integrated concept for implementation of QM in the areas of climatology;

• Propose CCl reference documents and practices as candidate subjects for developing new common ISO/WMO technical standards;

• Consider writing a section of the Guide to Climatological Practices on quality management in climatology and make recommendations as to whether this is a good idea or not, and, if it is, how best to go about creating one. Pay attention to the similar work the Commission for Hydrology is engaged in so we can leverage off their accomplishments.

Expert Team on Infrastructural and Institutional Capabilities (ET-IIC)

• Hani Mosbah Shtewi, Libya • V.U.M Rao, India • Edvin Aldrian, Indonesia (co-leader) • Matilde Rusticucci, Argentina • Wassila Thiaw, USA (co-leader) • Mesut Demircan, Turkey

Expert Team on Infrastructural and Institutional Capabilities (ET-IIC)

a. Identify the infrastructural needs that are most essential for NMHSs to provide the services expected under the GFCS;

b. Provide descriptions and technical specifications of infrastructural needs for implementing the CSIS, particularly at the regional and national levels;

c. Provide guidance on efficient institutional structures and arrangements required for NMHSs to support climate services, including processes, policies and procedures that enable effective climate services, as well as the essential relationships between different organizations and sectors;

d. Endeavour to coordinate activities and potential resources to address infrastructural needs;

e. Publicize this work (e.g., perhaps in an article for the WMO Bulletin) in an effort to enlist more support for it.

Expert Team on Education and Training (ET-ETR)

• Pascaline Chemaiyo, Kenya • Pradeep Kumar Pallath, India • Niceforo Ita, Peru • Derek Arndt, USA • Yahya Abawi, Australia • Enric Aguilar, Spain (Leader)

Expert Team on Education and Training (ET-

ETR) a. Advise on education and training aspects of capacity

development in climatology and further develop already existing competency standards for core job-tasks in climate services across the other four OPACES and with other WMO Technical Commissions and bodies such as WCRP and GCOS and with the WMO Education and Training Programme (ETRP);

b. Identify guidance material that would help build capacity in NMHSs. If subject matter is in the domain of one of the other OPACES, encourage that OPACE to develop the guidance. If the material crosses OPACES or is not in another OPACE’s domain, undertake the development of the guidance material in collaboration with experts worldwide.

Task Team on the Guide to Climatological Practices

• Mohamed Hajjej, Tunisia • Govindarajalu Srinivasan, India (Leader) • Raul Mejia, Ecuador • Tannecia Stephenson, Jamaica • Nathaniel Guttman, USA • Glenn McGregor, New Zealand • Marina Baldi, Italy

Task Team on the Guide to Climatological Practices

a. Identify key reviewers across four other OPACEs to assist in

keeping the Guide to Climatological Practices up to date and state of the science;

b. Review sections of the Guide according to the existing time table which calls for rapidly evolving areas to be reviewed more frequently than slowly evolving parts, coordinate the update those sections of the Guide as appropriate;

c. Develop a new model for the Guide for ease of updating (e.g., CIMO’s Guide is a series of chapter pdfs, each of which can be updated without impacts to any of the other chapters);

d. In collaboration with the Secretariat, review the climate relevant parts of WMO standards and technical regulations and propose updates where appropriate.

Task Team on Climatological Guide

Advisors on Social Media

• Laurentine Bidie Dzitoukoulou, Congo • Irina Zaytseva, Uzbekistan • Diana Dominguez, Argentina • Heidi Cullen, USA • Andrew Watkins, Australia • Alexander Sterin, Russian Federation

Advisors on Social Media a. Manage CCl’s Facebook Page in coordination with the WMO

Secretariat; b. Pioneer the use of other social media in CCl communication; c. Use social media to cultivate a CCl community; d. Use social media to educate the CCl community on important

climate-related developments; e. Define procedures and guidelines for CCl experts to communicate

through CCl social media channels, including how CCl experts manage their responsibilities to both their 'home' institution and WMO policies;

f. Liaise with the WMO Communications and Public Affairs Office for a more efficient use of social networks and media policy in general in order to explore better ways of communicating climate-related issues;

g. Provide a Guidance note on the role of Social Media in climatology based on the PWS experience.