Implemented by Agency as part of the Copernicus Programme
Introduction
Important data from The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) recently underwent a significant data preservation initiative with the support of the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Royal Meteorological Institute (RMI) of Belgium. This effort involved rescuing crucial data from unstable fiche and film media, which were originally transferred from original hard copy records to micro-fiche by the RMI in the late 1980s from National Meteorological Services archives across Africa (Noone et al, 2023). The ACMAD initiative, established in 1985 by the UNECA Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance, serves as the continental weather/climate watch and a centre of excellence for the applications of meteorology in… more
The Royal Meteorological Society is organizing a National Meeting on DATA RESCUE - Discovery and Recovery of Historic Climatic Observations. This meeting brings together those who are working to reconstruct, archive and extend climatic records in the UK. It will evaluate two major citizen science projects – Rainfall Rescue and Weather Rescue at Sea which have harnessed the work of… more
Peer Hechler presented on a workshop organized by SADC named: Capacity-building for Member States on homogenisation of climate data and workshop to initiate harmonisation of Climate Data Management System (CDMS) in the SADC region held from 31 July - 5 of August. Delegates are present from all member state countries. Day one of the workshop is… more
The Secretariat, in close collaboration with SERCOM’s Expert Team on Data Requirements for Climate Services (ET-DRC), offers a series of online regional consultations to facilitate the successful conduct of data rescue activities according to WMO good practices and to promote regional and global… more
The KNMI team is very pleased to present this version of the new datarescue website. This is a merge from the original C3S datarescue website and the WMO I-Dare Portal. We are looking forward to hear your feedback and hope that this prototype will be online soon.
Kevin Healion from ICARUS, Maynooth University was asked to present on his data rescue work at the hybrid WMO-led workshop on data exchange for SADC Member State climate experts taking place in Angola. Delegates from SADC member states were present on site.
Kevin presented on… more
The WMO Secretariat, in close collaboration with SERCOM’s Expert Team on Data Requirements for Climate Services (ET-DRC), offers a series of online regional consultations to facilitate the successful conduct of data rescue activities according to WMO good practices and to promote… more