High-level Meeting & Workshop on Environmental and Scientific Open Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries. Madagascar, 4-6 December 2017

1. PRACTICE FOR THE EXCHANGE OF
METEOROLOGICAL AND RELATED
DATA AND PRODUCTS
Tatiana Arivelo, Mrs.
Meteo Madagascar

2. METEO MADAGASCAR
STATE
AND
GOVERNMENT
MINISTRY OF
TRANSPORTS AND
METEOROLOGY
METEOROLOGY
Mission:
Provide the weather, climate, and
water services for protection of
life, property, development and
sustainable management of natural
ressource.
[source: WMO ]

3. WMO Resolution 40
ADOPTS the following policy on the international
exchange of meteorological and related data and
products:
• As a fundamental principle of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO), and in
consonance with the expanding requirements for
its scientific and technical expertise, WMO
commits itself to broadening and enhancing the
free and unrestricted international exchange of
meteorological and related data and products;

4. EMISSION CLIMATE DATA FROM THE
SYNOPTIC STATIONS: from NCM to RCT

5. CLIMATE DATA SHARING MECHANISM
OVER THE WORLD

7. Products available on DGM website
www.meteomadagascar.mg

8. DGM MAPROOM
http://www.meteomadagascar.mg
Interactive web application providing maps
and figures
Interesting tool for visualisation and
displaying information in the past, recent
time, present and future
Aiming to manage climate risks

12. OPEN Data for Resilience Initiative
• Regional initiative aiming to improve the
resilience and ability of the IOC member
states in facing natural disaster risks.
• Modeling tools for analysis of the future risks
are made available through platform called
“GeoNode” in which data issued from the
DRM institutions are freely accessible

13. Climate data and information shared
with/through GeoNode platform
• Normal precipitation
• Cyclone
• Summary report on SWIO-RAFI (2017):
– Number of recorded TC events (1950-2015)
– Number of Recorded Non-TC Flooding
– Events (1970-2015)

14. Perspective on Climate Data Policy
• The climate monitoring products use data that are
freely transmitted over the GTS and from historical
agreements of data sharing.
• These data have been processed to create gridded
products such that it is not possible to retrieve any
of the raw station data from our products.
• Thus, there is no conflict with your own holdings
of the original station series.

15. • There is high value to all in making our products
available under an 'open' licence, enabling NMSs
and Governments to use the gridded data for any
purpose.
• For example, the data may be useful in producing
climate adaptation and resilience strategy for
sectors that are essential to society such as energy
or transport.
• In many cases, reports of this nature are considered
commercial and therefore in breach of any non-
open use policy.
Perspective on Climate Data Policy
(Continued)

16. Thank you 