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Centro Internacionalpara lala Investigación del Fenómeno Centrowww. ciifen. org Internacional Investigación del de El Niño Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org “Potential contributions of the Regional Climate Center for Western South America to the Global Cryosphere Watch ” Rodney Martínez Güingla r. martinez@ciifen. org 1

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org CIIFEN is an international non-profit organization established on January 10 th 2003 as the result of several resolutions adopted by the United Nations. Its International Board is composed by the Governments of Ecuador and Spain, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as observer. MISSION To implement actions to consolidate the science-policy interaction and improve the climate services in order to contribute to risk management and adaptation. 2

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Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org RCC-WSA Regional Climate Center for West of South America MISSION Strengthen the operational capabilities of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of Western South America to contribute to the continuous improvement of their climate services. VISION Our Vision is to always have the recognition and active participation of the members to the fulfillment of the mission entrusted. crc-osa. ciifen. org 5

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org MILESTONES RA III decided to implement RCCs and proposed CIIFEN as one of them 09. 2010 CIIFEN received the formal support and endorsement to RCC Strategic Plan from the NMHSs from WCSA 08. 2013 I meeting of Steering Committee and designation of its President 04. 2014 Official designation of the RCC 06. 2015 President of the RA III sent a formal letter to the WMO 12. 2011 RCC Operations started 03. 2013 Task Force of WMO recommended it designation 05. 2014 Countries of Western South America identified needs for implementation of RCC and defined actions to take 03. 2012 RCC Portal started to be developed 05. 2012 President of RA III requested WMO to start designation process 06. 2014 President of WMO commission for climatology after a review of fullfilment of requirements, recommended President of Commission for Basic Systems the designation as a WMO RCC 6

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Endorsment from the 6 NMHSs from WSA 7

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org The main strategic objectives of the RCC-WSA are: 1) Strengthening capacities for climate data management 2) Capacity building for seasonal prediction. 3) Strengthening of climate services to priority sectors. 4) Positioning and visibility. 5) Resource mobilization and technical cooperation. 8

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org GOVERNANCE Steering Commitee Implementation Guayaquil, April 2014 Cartagena, March 2015 La Antigua, November 2016 9

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2017 -2019 • Strengthening Seasonal Forecast Capabilities • Strengthening of climate analysis and data management capacities • Development of applications, tools and methodologies for: disaster prevention in agriculture and water resources sectors • Implementation of the Regional Action Plan for Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting • Coordination of a regional drought initiative • Development of tools and methodologies for combined e-learning training in climate data management, applications and modeling • Research Initiative on ENSO Regional Impacts • Implementation of a Resource Mobilization and Sustainability Plan 10

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org New DELL server installed at RCC-WSA Increased processing and storing capacity New RCC-WSA web page implemented for easy access to data and information 11

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Climate monitoring - SST Automatic, weekly and monthly update for eastern Pacific, The Caribbean, and South Atlantic 12

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Climate monitoring – subsurface temperature Monthly subsurface sea temperature, 20°C isotherm, and 25, 45, 75 and 105 meters depth, for eastern Pacific 13

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Climate monitoring – air temperature, wind, precipitation…. . and more Weekly and monthly air temperature and anomalies. Monthly, 5 -day 5, 10 -days precipitation and anomalies Weekly and monthly wind vectors Monthly (OLR, Sea Level Pressure, cloudiness) …. . 14

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org El Niño/La Niña Monthly bulletins of climate analysis, and contribution to WMO’s bulletin. Wide distributed in 15 the region and the world by email

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Seasonal prediction Rainfall, max and min temperatures probabilities for below normal, and above normal categories, for more than 400 hundred stations. Forecast provided by NMHSs. Forecast of rainfall, air temperature, and SST from North American Multi-Model Ensemble NMME 16

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Drought monitoring Monitoring of SPI, rainfall anomalies. Implementation of the “Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) Observatory for Latin America” at RCCWSA servers 17

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Regional data repository Today, LACA&D (with the support of KNMI) is receiving data from 9 participants for 9 countries and the LACA dataset contains 1778 series of observations for 7 elements at 1225 meteorological stations throughout Latin America. 69% of these series can be downloaded from this website for non-commercial research and education. Participation is open to anyone maintaining daily station data. 18

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Training activities have been developed as part of the strategic plan approved by the 6 Directors of NMHSs in Western South America • Regional database development workshop – Regional developers group • Regional workshop on statistical climate modeling • Seasonal forecast workshop • Workshop for verification of seasonal prediction • Virtual Forums for discussion of ENSO evolution • SPEI calculation workshop • Workshop for the implementation of the SCADO system 19

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org The scope of RCC-WSA in climate services • • • Virtual system for developing climate risk maps in agriculture, energy, health, water and disasters from extreme events. Digital Repository of analysis tools, information sources and technical manuals for agro climatology. Monitoring and prediction of drought: contribution to GDIS Virtual discussion system for the diagnosis and prediction of conditions associated with ENSO. Implementation of the Action Plan for seasonal hydrological forecast. Training workshop on validation of sectoral climate indices and sub-regional action plan for its implementation. Support system with tools, methodologies and best practices in the provision of climate information for risk management. Coordination of regional climate-health network and coordination with other existing initiatives. Virtual system tools, methodologies and best practices in the provision of climate information for managing conservation areas. Virtual system for generating consensus of climate projections for decision making in adaptation. Coordination and capacity building for climate modeling and prediction 20

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Main Challenges • Availability of funding is a limiting factor when developing regional activities • Asymmetries in the development of technical capabilities must be reduced • Communications and coordination between NMHS should be improved • Access to data from Global Production Centers GPCs is still limited • Communication between information generator and the user of the information has still a large gap to cover • The area of communication with users is not yet a priority in some NMHSs • Change the view of the authorities, private companies and international organizations to consider the NMHS not as a provider of information but as a strategic partner for development management 21

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Vulnerability of Andean ecosystems Perú Ecuador Bolivia 22

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org Need of information about glaciers in RCC-WSA Feasible use: • Andean hydrology modeling • Ecosystems management • Risk management • Drought monitoring • Water supply Regional group of hydrological modeling 23

Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org CIIFEN, 14 years of service to most vulnerable communities in Latin America 24

Centro Internacionalpara lala Investigación del Fenómeno Centrowww. ciifen. org Internacional Investigación del de El Niño Fenómeno de El Niño www. ciifen. org crc-osa. ciifen. org Thank You! Phone: (593) 42514770 Fax: (593) 42514771 Address: Escobedo 1204 y 9 de Octubre 25 Guayaquil, Ecuador