DATA RESCUE: REGIONAL TO INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES & CHALLENGES Prof. Rob Allan, International ACRE Project Manager, Climate Monitoring and Attribution.

DATA RESCUE: REGIONAL DATA RESCUE: REGIONAL TO INTERNATIONAL TO INTERNATIONAL

ACTIVITIES & ACTIVITIES & CHALLENGESCHALLENGES

Prof. Rob Allan,International ACRE Project Manager,

Climate Monitoring and Attribution Group, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK

GLOBAL INITIATIVES

• Poorly funded and staffed

• Many ‘Grass Roots’ - Climate Science Community - support

The international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the

Earth (ACRE) initiative

EcologicalEcologicalPhenologicalPhenological

Health & DiseaseHealth & DiseaseReinsuranceReinsurance

Climate MonitoringClimate MonitoringModel ValidationModel Validation

Environmental Environmental AssessmentsAssessments

Extremes, Impacts & Extremes, Impacts & RisksRisks

Water resourcesWater resourcesAgriculturalAgricultural

ForestryForestryEnergyEnergy

Marine operationsMarine operationsFisheriesFisheries

Cultural landscapes and Cultural landscapes and built heritagebuilt heritage

EducationEducation

22: Provide surface data requirements for all reanalyses

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33: Global User Community Needs

2020thth Century Reanalysis Project Century Reanalysis Project (20CR) (20CR)

global historical reanalysisassimilates only surface variables

56 realisations every 6 hours, 2⁰ x 2⁰ spatial resolution

11: Undertake & facilitate international & regional

recovery, imaging & digitisation of global surface terrestrial & marine weather observations over the last

200+ years

IRIIRI

NCARNCAR

NOAA ESRLNOAA ESRL

NERSCNERSC

KNMIKNMI

BADCBADC

6th ACRE Workshop – Portugal 2013

Status of Regional Weather Data Recovery, Imaging & Digitisation Foci under ACRE

ACRE Chile – initial funding EC FP7 ERA-CLIM

ACRE Pacific – via NIWA, NZ; initial French Pacific Fund project

ACRE India – British Library-India initiative; AHRC Collaborative Research on the Meteorological and Botanical History of the Indian Ocean, 1600-1900; MoU with Indian Meteorological

Department?

ACRE Arctic – being developed by the Atmosphere/Climate Working Group (WG) of the International Arctic Science

Committee (IASC)

ACRE Africa – link to new Met Office Hadley Centre-UK DfiD Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP) contract

ACRE China – part of the new Met Office MoU with both the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) & Beijing Climate Centre

(BCC) plus an AHRC proposal via Bristol University, UK

ACRE SE Asia – APN CAPaBLE funding for June 2014 WorkshopACRE Southern Ocean – links to Southern Ocean Observing

System (SOOS) International Project Office (IPO), Tasmania, Australia & Gateway Antarctica, NZ???

US-based, independent 501(C)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization established in 2005: (http://iedro.org/)

Our Activities-International Climate Data Rescue (IC-DARE) Inventory-International Data Rescue News (IDRN). Bi-monthly newsletter.-On-site Training - Data Analysis and Visualization-Climate Data Digitization Tools

- Alpha-Numeric Data Entry (workstations and crowdsourcing) - Strip Chart Digitization Application

IEDRO recovers at-risk climate data from around the globe that enables meteorological and scientific communities to provide a better

understanding of climate change and more accurately predict severe weather.

ISTIISTIwww.surfacetemperatures.orgwww.surfacetemperatures.org

Overview:Overview:Facilitating creation of multiple Facilitating creation of multiple independent land surface temperature independent land surface temperature reconstructions with traceability and reconstructions with traceability and robust intercomparisonrobust intercomparison

Land Meteorological Databank- data rescue, sharing and provenance- free, traceable to origin- consolidated master database

Benchmarking – Station Temperature Test Cases- testing homogenisation algorithm ability- realistic synthetic worlds with different error models

Data-product portal- user tools - intercomparison tools - visualisation tools

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Climate Services across borders

ICA&D: International Climate Assessment &

Data Set and Data Rescue

Aryan van Engelen – Netherlands

Together with the ECA Team, Albert Klein Tank, Gerard van der Schrier, Else van den

Besselaar, Robert Leander

5th ACRE Workshop, Météo-France, Toulouse, 28-30 Nov. 2012

ACRE Europe, SE-Asia, S-America,

W-Africa

Concept of ICA&D

The ICA&D (International Climate Assessment &

Dataset) climate services concept successfully

combines the work of WMO’s Expert Team on Climate

Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) and WMO’s Data Rescue (DARE) activities

ET-DARE ETCCDI

The International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set—

ICOADSScott Woodruff (NOAA/NCDC &

CIRES, USA)Eric Freeman (NOAA/NCDC, USA)

Steven Worley (NCAR, USA)http://icoads.noaa.gov/

GLOSSGroup of Experts

Paris, November 2011Historic Sea Level Data Rescue Questionnaire

Investigate and report on holdings -Names of stations -Time spans -What is recorded (marigram, tabulated?) -Ancillary data (tide staff readings, leveling) -Media (paper, microfiche) -Condition of media (risk of loss?) -Volume of media (how many pages, boxes?) -Where are holdings? (your agency, other?) -Plans for restoration to electronic media?

*Report to [email protected] Deadline April 1, 2012, extended to Aug 1

Sent to - GLOSS national points of contact- International Hydrographic Organization member contacts

GLOSS Questionnaire Results- 18 replies from 14 countries- 169 tide gauge stations identified (23 GLOSS sites)- Time spans:1800s-1900s- 4,103 Total years (~3,259 excluding gaps)- If digitized: add 2,824 years to JASL (324 GLOSS sites)

Why no NTCresponse?

- much data exists

REGIONAL PROJECTS/INITIATIVES

• 3 - 5 year funding (e.g. EU, ESF)

• Legacy of data collected, digitised and processed??

The MEditerranean DAta REscue (MEDARE) Initiative

Climate records being developed under EURO4M effort linked to MEDARE

http://app.omm.urv.cat/urv/

The MEDARE metadataon-line Infrastructure

NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP)Data Rescue Activities in Vietnam

Daily data keyed for 30 stations covering 1890’s -1920’s - total of6092 station months. Data will be incorporated into GHCN.

ACRE – South China Sea Data DigitisationMean Sea Level Pressure 1873-1932

(Source: Met Office Archives & NOAA Central Library Scanned images)

ACRE SE ASIA: ACRE SE ASIA: Linking Data Rescue ActivitiesLinking Data Rescue Activities

Data feedData feed => the International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPD) => the International Surface Pressure Databank (ISPD) =>=> All ReanalysesAll Reanalysesespecially the ACRE-facilitated 20especially the ACRE-facilitated 20thth Century Reanalysis (20CR) Century Reanalysis (20CR)

KNMI & BMKG Digitisasi Data Historis (DiDaH)

Digitization of high-resolution historical climate data from Indonesia over the period 1850-present

Southeast Asian Climate Assessment & Dataset (SACA&D) project aims to be the data portal and climate monitoring tool for the Southeast Asian region. SACA&D is receiving data from 18 participants for 9 countries from this region

THE MAURITIUS PROJECTRecovering, imaging, digitising, archiving and preserving of old weather observations

extracted from ship logbooks in 188 volumes of Charles Meldrum's 'anemological' journals from 1853 to 1914 and terrestrial weather observations for Mauritius

(including data from Colonel Lloyd's Colonial Observatory at Port Louis) from the late 18th to the early years of the 20th century held by the Mauritius Meteorological

Services (MMS).

National Archives of Mauritius

Old weather data records in Mauritius Meteorological Service (MSS)Old weather data records in Mauritius Meteorological Service (MSS)

HISTORICAL DAILY INDIAN OCEAN CHARTS: 1st January 1861:

Sir Charles Todd Weather folios covering the 31 year period 1879-1909Sir Charles Todd Weather folios covering the 31 year period 1879-1909http://www.charlestodd.net/Todd_Hi-Res/

Work of the Volunteer Unit (South Australia) Australian Meteorological Association working with the Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

Weather Data: Clement Wragge’s abstracts from ship logbooks: 1889-1903Weather Data: Clement Wragge’s abstracts from ship logbooks: 1889-1903

(Jan 1892 - Sep 1892)The Australasian United Steam

Navigation (AUSN) Company island-trading steamer S.S. Birksgate:

Sailed between Sydney, Suva and Noumea [also New Hebrides]

The French liner S.S. Australien was one of a quartet of vessels with which the Messageries Maritimes developed its Australian trade in 1889-1891. For 25 years the ship was a regular caller at Australian ports and despite the rivalry of newer vessels kept up her popularity over this long stretch of time.

All being scanned for ACRE from hard copies discovered in the Queensland State Archives, Brisbane

French Mail Ship S.S. Australien(Mails for Australia, Mauritius, Mahe, Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles,

Aden, Suez, Port Said, France, Mediterranean ports, Continent of Europe and the United Kingdom, via Marseilles)

3/3/1893 – 17/4/1893

German Patrol Crusier S.M.S. Sperber:10/10/1892-29/11/1892

(Built specifically for the German Foreign Service, S.M.S. Sperber was one of the German patrol cruisers on the Australian Station, charged with showing the German flag on routine visits to various ports in the South Pacific, enabling the German administrators to travel their islands territories on law enforcement missions and to be on stand-by for any military conflict)

H.I.M.S Austrian Corvette Saida:15/7/1893-31/7/1893

The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 3 July 1893, Page 4:‘An Austrian wooden built corvette launched at Pola in 1878……… making a cruise round the principal ports of India, China, Japan and Australia. Since leaving Pola several months ago she has called at Port Said, Suez, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Calcutta, Singapore, Bangkok, Batavia, Albany, and Melbourne. She will remain here a few weeks. From Sydney she will proceed to New Zealand Tahiti, HonoIulu, Japan and China, returning to Austria by way of the Suez Canal.’

SS Kaikoura20 Circumnavigations 1885-1893

Oct 1887-Feb 1888Plymouth – Hobart – Lyttleton - Rio de Janeiro - Plymouth

Track of SS Kaikoura through Southern Ocean – Nov-Dec 1887

National Meteorological Archive, Exeter United Kingdom

9-10K marine meteorological Logbooks

SOMESOMEOTHEROTHER

SOUTHERNSOUTHERNHEMISPHERE HEMISPHERE

MARINE MARINE DATADATA

ICA&D ACRE IEDRO ISTI ICOADS

…..GFCS, WMO, GCOS, GEO, WCRP, WCDMP……

(MEDARE, FP7 EURO4M, FP7 ERA-CLIM…………..)

COOPERATION, COLLABORATION, ENGAGEMENTCOOPERATION, COLLABORATION, ENGAGEMENT

International ACRE Project ManagerProf. Rob Allan

Climate Monitoring and Attribution Group, Met Office Hadley Centre

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