NOTES FROM THE EIGHTH FORMAL GEWEX HYDROCLIMATOLOGY PANELTELECONFERENCE ON ASIA-PACIFIC-AUSTRALIA REGIONAL HYDROCLIMATE PROJECTSAND REFERENCE SITE ISSUES HELD ON
22 FEBRUARY 2011
First DRAFT, 20 April 2011

1.

INTRODUCTION

The 8th Asia-Pacific-Australia RHP and Reference Sites Teleconference related to the
GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP, formerly CEOP) took place on Tuesday 22 February at 05:00
UTC.
The issues that were discussed on the subject conference call included:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)

CEOP – GHP transitions: Second Co-Chair; New RHP criteria; Development a new RHP in the
North America
Overview of all site data at CEOP Reference Site Data Archive;
RHP/Reference Site data providers/managers reports;

Participants
The participants were:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.

Steve Williams (USA, Data WG Co-Chair)
Tetsu Ohta (Japan, CEOP Asia Reference Site Data Manager)
Katsunori Tamagawa (Japan, CEOP Asia Reference Site Data Manager)
Tsing-Chang (Mike) Chen (Iowa, Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan site
representative)
Jason Evans (Australia, MDB Site Representative)
Kenichi Ueno (Japan, Tsukuba site representative)
Wu Yueru (China, Heihe River Basin site representatives)
Zhang Zhihui (China, Heihe River Basin site representatives)
Wu Zhang (China, Lanzhou site representative)
Gianni Tartari (Italy, Himalayas, Karakorum and Italy site representative)
Roberta Toffolon (Italy, Himalayas, Karakorum and Italy site representative)
Manabu D. Yamanaka (Indonesia, Indonesia sites representative)
Hisayuki Kubota (Japan, Western Pacific Ocean site representative)
Jun Matsumoto (Japan, Northeast Bangladesh site and Central Vietnam site representative)
Sam Benedict (Japan, GHP International Coordination Function)
Petra Koudelova (Japan, GHP International Coordination Function)

Could Not Participate
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.

Toshio Koike (Japan, former CEOP Co-Chair)
Jun-Ichi Hamada (Japan, Western Indonesia, Central Indonesia, Eastern Indonesia,
Northern Indonesia, Southern Indonesia sites representative)
Hironori Yabuki (Japan, Eastern Siberian Tundra, Eastern Siberian Taiga, Mongol
Arvayheer, Mongol Nalaikh sites representative)
Hu Zeyong (China, Tibet site representative)
Shigenori Haginoya (Japan, Tibet site representatives)
Hirohiko Ishikawa (Japan, Tibet site)
Hideyuki Kamimera (Japan, Central Vietnam site and Western Indonesia sites
representative
Fadli Syamsudin (Western Indonesia, Central Indonesia, Eastern Indonesia, NorthernIndonesia, Southern Indonesia sites representative)
Dawen Yang/Lei Huimin (China, Downstream of the Yellow River site representative)
Ichirow Kaihotsu (Japan, Mongolia site representative)
Masatoshi Aoki (Japan, Chao-Phraya River, North-East Thailand sites representative)

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12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.

Tetsuo Ohata (Japan, Eastern Siberian Tundra, Eastern Siberian Taiga, Mongol Arvayheer,
Mongol Nalaikh sites representative)
Ming-Cheng Yen (Taiwan, Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan site representative)
Gombo Davaa (Mongolia, Northern Mongolia site and Mongolia site representative)
Ryuichi Shirooka (Japan, Western Pacific Ocean site representative)
Liu Huizhi (China, Tongyu site representative)
Toru Terao (Japan, Northeast Bangladesh site)
Jun Asanuma (Japan, Northern Mongolia site representative)

2.

NEXT CONFERENCE CALLth

The next, 9 CEOP Asia Pacific RHP and Reference Sites Teleconference is proposed to takeplace on Tuesday 21 June 2010, 05:00 UTC. Koudelova/Benedict have action (A1) to inform thegroup of the details of the next call nearer to the time of the call and to coordinate the origination of
the call (action A1a).

3.

CEOP AND CEOP DATA GROUP GENERAL ISSUES

3.1 WCRP and GEWEX related issuesnd(3.1a) Benedict reiterated the main outcomes of the 2 Pan-GEWEX meeting that was held in
Seattle, USA, in August 2010 (http://www.gewex.org/2010pangewex/home.html). These included anumber of decisions, recommendations and actions specifically associated with former CEOP as well
as a set of general (Pan-GEWEX) actions for all the Panels. The main changes that have taken place
recently with respect to CEOP included:
1. The SSG accepted Prof Toshio Koike’s decision to step down as Co-Chair of CEOP effectiveat the close of the PGM at Seattle. This action, followed Dr Ron Stewart’s resignation, which
was taken at the close of the SSG meeting at New Delhi India, 25-29 January 2010,
2. Dr Dennis Lettenmaier was named Co-Chair of CEOP to replace Dr Stewart, effective at theend of the SSG meeting at India (25-29 January 2010),
3. There was a search team being organized to find a Co-Chair to work with Dr Lettenmaier.
4. The SSG agreed to change the name of CEOP to the GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP),
effective immediately following the end of the PGM.
Also a new set of criteria for GEWEX RHPs was proposed at the meeting that were circulated prior to
the last call and all RHPs were asked to review this set.
(3.1b) Benedict advised the group that consequently after the PGM, Dr. Jan Polcher – Laboratoirede Météorologie Dynamique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jussieu, Paris,
France – had been nominated a new Co-Chair of GHP and had accepted this function. Dr. Polcher
attended the GHP Europe-Africa Conference Call on 18 January and at that time introduced his
interests in activities covered by GHP and stressed out in particular the importance of high quality
long-term in-situ observations that are essential for WCRP/GEWEX science. He pointed out that
individual sites on which RHPs are built up needed to be maintained and these difficult tasks should
be supported by the GEWEX community. Polcher also emphasized that both (i) long term records
and (ii) intensive, comprehensive short term observation campaigns are necessary and that crucial isrigorous data quality assurance with appropriate site instrumentation documentation. He voiced that
establishing of a kind of a list of “good practices” for reference site observation would be desirable andalso named the BSRN sites as a good example of such practices.
Polcher further advised the group that the new GHP panel members (see ATTACHMENT 1 below)
will meet at the occasion of the EGU meeting in Vienna in April and they will discuss a neworganization of the Panel that would be suitable for the new directions identified at the PGM. In
addition, he mentioned that the first meeting of the new GHP was proposed be held in autumn in
Europe.

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In this context, Benedict reiterated that with regards to the changes resulting from the Pan-GEWEX
meeting discussions, the data collecting and reporting scheme may need some restructuring, however
the urgent need for a high quality data as a basis for scientific activities that are key for the GEWEXImperatives was confirmed at the Pan GEWEX Meeting and the reference site data activities aresupposed to continue in a certain manner. The in-situ data from the CEOP reference sites wereacknowledged and studies based on these data were presented at the meeting.
(3.1c) After the call, at the beginning of March, Williams advised all the CEOP/GHP reference sitegroups by via email about the development of the situation at NCAR/EOL, where the CEOP referencesite archive is hosted. With respect to the transition process from CEOP to GHP and envisioned GHP
foci, the NOAA’s Climate Projects Office (CPO), who has funded this CEOP activity since 2001, hasdirected EOL to complete these activities by September 2011. No additional funds have been
allocated to EOL beyond October 2011 to provide any support to CEOP/GHP. Accordingly, the NCAR
EOL team has decided to process and follow up on all the reference site data that would besubmitted to them by 31 March 2011 and a requested all the CEOP reference site data providers toconsider this deadline to complete their submissions as much as possible. The copy of this note andrequest is attached below (Attachment 2).
(3.1d) Benedict further informed the group that a new RHP was being formed in the Northern
American continent, involving the USA, Canada, and potentially Mexico. The proposed RHP,
Terrestrial Regional North American Hydro-Climate Experiment (TRACE) (http://www.tracerhp.org/), envisions an interdisciplinary, international, and interagency effort to make significant
contributions to continental and finer scale hydro-climate science and solutions. The TRACE objective
is to entrain, integrate, and coordinate the vast array of interdisciplinary observational and prediction
resources available to significantly advance skill in predicting and managing changes in North
American water resources, as an integral part of the global climate system. The TRACE mission is tomeasure and predict North American energy and water variations, trends, and extremes throughimproved observations and prediction, thereby providing the scientific underpinnings of future climate
services. The initial discussion workshop will be held on 18 – 20 April 2011, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.

(3.1e) It was reiterated that a 10-Year Dataset project had been initiated in response to the climate
modeling community need of a high quality observation data of a sufficient length for evaluation ofclimate models under the CMIP5 project and quantification of model projections uncertainties. This
activity was proposed by the WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel (WOAP) and is compliantrdwith the CEOP commitment taken at the 3 Annual CEOP Meeting in Melbourne in August 2009 todevelop the CEOP 10-year dataset as well as with the GEWEX post 2013 Imperatives(http://www.gewex.org/2010pangewex/Draft_Imperatives.pdf). The WOAP suggested activity isenvisioned as a collaborative effort of a broader observation and climate modeling communities
including GEWEX/CEOP, LandFlux-EVAL, GSWP, AsiaFlux, from the observation side. The targeted
dataset will consists of in-situ as well as satellite observations from multiple providers including
GHP (CEOP), FLUXNET, AsiaFlux, iLEAPS.
The 10-Year Dataset project was discussed with the LandFlux-EVAL, FLUXNET, AsiaFlux, and
GSWP representatives at the occasion of the HESSS2 Meeting in Tokyo in June and subsequently aWhite Paper was developed and submitted for discussion at the Pan-GEWEX meeting in August. The
White Paper is now under consideration by WCRP (WOAP) and GEWEX communities. Further details
should be known after the GHP Panel meeting in April.
3.2 CMA permission to provide Chinese site data to GHP/CEOP(3.2a) It was reiterated that Prof. Koike met Prof. ZHENG Guoguang, CMA (China Meteorological
Administration) Administrator and Dr. ZHAO Datong, Deputy Director-General, Department ofthIntegrated Observation, CMA in Beijing on 26 July 2010 and also during the GEO Ministerial Summit
in November and discussed with them the permission for the Chinese reference sites to provide thedata to CEOP (GHP). Prof. Koike introduced the essence of the CEOP activities and the high value
and merit of the unique CEOP dataset and explained the need for in-situ observation data from the
Chinese sites and requested the CMA to grant the permission to the reference sites in question toprovide their observation data to CEOP, while adhering to the CEOP Reference Site Data Policy.

3This was the first time the CMA leaders were officially and in detail informed of the CEOP dataset
specifics and merits and CEOP activities. They recognized its value and contributions to the energy
and water cycle research and understood the need for the data from the Chinese reference sites andwould consider the CEOP's request accordingly and with regards to the GEO Ministerial Summit in
Beijing in November 2010.
Dr. Zhao Datong has kindly agreed to play a key role of mediator between the responsible persons of
CMA and the site managers, for finalizing the permission of the data submission to the GHP (CEOP).
The managers are asked to provide lists of observed parameters that are to be provided to CEOP.
The parameters will be divided into two tables depicting (a) physical parameter and (b) chemicalparameters. The CMA will consider individual parameters based on the provided lists.
(3.2b) In this context, the site managers of the Chinese reference sites were asked at the last call toundertake the action A2 to contact Dr. Zhao Datong in this matter as soon as possible. Nevertheless,there has been some misunderstanding and Chinese reference site representatives expected thatthey would be contacted by CMA in this matter. Therefore the matter has been clarified at the call andChinese site representatives asked again to approach Dr. Zhao Datong at the following address.
ZHAO Datong
Deputy Director-General, Department of Integrated Observation
China Meteorological Administration
46 Zhong-Guan-Cun South Street
Beijing 100081,
China
Tel: +86-10-58995027
Fax: +86-10-62179786
Cell: +86-13681328116
email: zhaodt@cma.gov.cn
Koudelova has action A2a to assure with individual Chinese site representatives that they had
properly understood the necessary procedure and acted accordingly.
3.3 Overall status of the CEOP reference site data archive and related issues(3.3a) Williams reported that work continued on data format and quality issues with the sites that
submit their data directly to the NCAR/EOL without using services of the CEOP_AP data center at
Tokyo, Japan, however no new datasets from the Asia-Pacific sites had been submitted since the lastcall. The overall status can be accessed on the Internet at:
http://data.eol.ucar.edu/master_list/?project=CEOP/EOP-3/4.
(3.3b) Tamagawa introduced the summary of data submission status to the CEOP_AP data centerin Tokyo and the respective site representatives, who attended the call, confirmed the data status andprovided further details as mentioned below. The updated status table has been circulated prior to thecall and is included in ATTACHMENT 2 below.
Tamagawa further mentioned that per an action from the previous calls, the CEOP_AP data status
table file had been updated and the Himalayan site Syangboche station and the Tsukuba site new
NIFTS station had been added on the detailed list of Asia Pacific sites and their individual stations.
The work on including names of individual site/station representatives in this table is progressing andTamagawa will advise the group when it is completed (action A3).
(3.2c) A question was reiterated about availability of the MOLTS (model output) and satellite data forthe reference site locations. These data is essential for comparison and evaluation studies at the sites
and site representatives are interested where and when the data will be available. Per a report fromthe CEOP Model Output Archive team at MPI, it was mentioned that for the CEOP Phase 2 period,
only JMA MOLTS data were currently available on-line, while data from ECMWF and NCEP werebeing processed and ingested in the MPI database. Koudelova and Benedict took action A4 tocheck the updated status and near future expectations in terms of the MOLTS and satellite data with
relevant archive representatives. At the same time, Ueno, who is mainly interested in these data,4

accepted action A4a to draft a list of specific requirements of MOLTS and satellite data and provide it
to Benedict, Williams, and Koudelova. Based on these requirements, further steps will be undertaken
to progress with the CEOP model output and satellite data archive population. This may also include a
special, focused call with key data providers and those who are interested in these data.
4.

RHP/REFERENCE SITE REPORTS

The following reports include (i) inputs, which were sent in by persons who could not participate in thecall, (ii) contributions, which were put together from the written and oral inputs provided by those who
did participate in the call, and (iii) oral reports of those, who did participate in the call but did notprovide the written input.
4.1 MDB RHP and Reference Sites by J. Evans
Evans reported that construction of the new tower site – the Wellington site in the middle of the
Murray-Darling Basin – had been advancing and more than half of planned instrumentation had been
already installed and begun to collect data. The site should be complete within several months.
Evans further mentioned that the MDB team will anticipate the results of the April GHP Panel meetingand then will discuss possible ways of contribution to the new GHP.
Evans also noted that the recent extreme rainfall in the northern part of the Murray-Darling Basin had
been actually beneficial for these areas affected by previous drought, e.g. certain reservoirs had been
only filled up to 25% before the rain and thus no floods had happened.
4.2 MAHASRI RHP by J. Matsumoto
Matsumoto reported that MAHASRI continues in the scheduled observation campaigns incooperation with the AMY efforts and it is also involved in the AMY reanalysis. The data has not been
made available yet but cooperation has been agreed with the University of Tokyo for using the CEOP
data systems and the work will begin in the near future.
Matsumoto further reiterated that a JMSJ Special Issue on MAHASRI had just been published. A
number of foreign editors were invited to this issue's editorial board members from AMY community.
In total 25 papers has been included with approx. 350p total volume.
4.3 Himalayas, Pakistan Karakorum, and Italian sites by the Ev-K2-CNR group (Toffolon)
Toffolon reported that the Himalayas and Pakistan AWSs continue to regularly function andmaintenance operation and data downloading were regularly carried out also thanks to a very
competent local team. The next expedition to check the sensors and download 2010 data from thestation that are not equipped with the real time transmission devices is scheduled in April 2011. In
addition, it was reiterated that new data loggers were being installed at the Khumbu valley station to
improve data recording and enable transmission in real time. This upgrade should be completed inspring 2011.
Toffolon further noted that the Himalayas 2009 datasets have been submitted to NCAR and the
Pakistan Karakorum 2008 data would be sent there soon.
It was also reiterated that the value of data from the Khumbu valley (Himalayas) stations for advanced
research of atmospheric physics was recognized and new collaborative activities exploiting these data
have been discussed by the Ev-K2-CNR Committee. Also the data from the Pakistan stations havebeen evaluated and a report issued at the end of October.
4.4 Tsukuba site by Ken’ichi Ueno
Ueno reported that the Tsukuba site data up to 2009 had been corrected according to the NCAR
comments and checked and can be uploaded to the NCAR archive. Consequently after the call, thedata has been made available through the NCAR gateway. The 2010 data are available in the
Tsukuba site archive and are being checked for quality.

5Ueno further reported that by the end of 2010, their team had completed 4-year effort of archiving
data from the Tsukuba stations and the funding for this effort had ended. The observation sites willcontinue to operate but without new funding, central archiving effort cannot be restarted and the teamwould now focus on analyses using the archived data.
4.5 Indonesian sites by M. Yamanaka (oral report) and Jun’ichi Hamada (written report)
Yamanaka reported that since the last year, he had been working in Jakarta, Indonesia, where efforts
were ongoing to establish international facilities for further, long-term observations. Japanese support
is planned till the year 2014 and then the Indonesian government will take over the responsibilities forthese facilities.
Hamada reported in writing that they had already collected AWS data in 2008/2009 from the all sites(Western/Central/Southern/Eastern/Northern Indonesia) and have been checking the data quality andconverting the data format before putting the data into the QC system of UT. He added that theobservation in Northern Indonesia site was started in January 2009.
4.6 Heihe river basin site by Wu Yueru and Zhi Zhihui – written report
All of the stations are running well, and data are collected and disposed well too. However, due to thepolicy, we have no right to upload the data, and this matter is still under discussion. The
representatives took action (see A2 above) to contact Dr. Zhao Datong at CMA in the matter of
permission to provide data to CEOP/GHP as mentioned in Section 3.2 above.
4.7 Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan site by Mike Chen
Chen reiterated that the data from the beginning of 2005 through the end of 2008 had been uploaded
to the CEOP_AP data center at UT and the quality check and metadata generation were almost
finished. He also mentioned that the site continued to operate well.
In addition, Chen reiterated that due to a certain political issues, a special experiment focused on the
monsoon activity that was on schedule this year and consisted of two components: (i) winter monsoon
and (ii) summer monsoon, could not be conducted. The team is now focusing on analysis of available
observation and should complete the studies by the end of the year.
4.8 Central Vietnam sites by Hideyuki Kamimera – written report
The "first-step" quality check of minutely raw data for about 2 years (from March 2009 to January2011) obtained from Da Nang AWS is still ongoing. The data can be checked at this website:
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/iorgc/harimau/kamimera/tmp/dan/In this first-step quality check, the experimental AWS data must be compared with operational
meteorological data by Vietnam National Hydro-Meteorological Service. After doing this, all of theelements will be uploaded onto the QC system to do the "second-step" quality check.
4.9 Western Pacific Ocean site by Hisayuki Kubota
Kubota reported that he had visited the site in January and data up to then had been collected. The
2007 data has been submitted to the Tokyo center and quality checked, the 2008 data would be
uploaded in the near future and other data will follow afterwards.
4.10 Lanzhou site by Wu Zhang
Wu reported that the site was operating well and the team was preparing a new proposal for
supporting the site. The previous funding ended in 2010 and now the site is supported from the
University funds.

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ATTACHMENT 1 List of GHP Panel Members

Last
Name

First
Name

Berbery

Hugo

Ek

MichaelAffiliation
Research in the Dept. of
Atmospheric and Oceanic
Science of the University of
Maryland(UMD)
National Centers forEnvironmental
Prediction/Environmental
Modeling Center(NCEP/EMC), NOAACountry

Gender

Age

US

Male

?

US

Male

?

Harding

RichardDirector of the
Biogeochemistry
programme at the NERC
Centre for Ecology andHydrology (CEH)

Kanae

ShinjiroTokyo Institute ofTechnology

Japan

Male

39

Vincenzo

Director of Research at the
Istituto di Scienze
dell’Atmosfera e del Clima(ISAC) of CNR

Italy

Male

53

Levizanni

UK

Male

?

Expertise- Diagnostic and modeling studies of regional climate
variability focused on the American monsoon systems and thehydrologic cycle- Role of surface conditions on land surface-atmosphereinteractions and their relation to the water and energy cycles- Land hydrology,- Boundary-layer physics- Land-atmosphere interaction- Associated modeling and observational data analysis- Arctic hydrology, including mass and energy balances ofsnow and ice surface;- Large-scale hydrological modelling;- Global climate modelling;- Land surface/atmosphere interactions (measuring andmodeling fluxes of water and CO2 from land surfaces)- Global water cycle,- Water resources,- Sustainability,- Flood and drought,- Climate change,- Asian monsoon hydrology- Satellite multispectral studies of cloud top structure;- Cloud physics studies of severe storms using radar andsatellite techniques;- Satellite rainfall estimations using combined VIS/IR and
MW techniques;- Earth radiation budget definition using satellite and groundbased instruments;- Development of mesoscale analysis techniques including
remote sensing data;- Studies of long-distance aerosol transport using satellite
instruments

7NunesAna

Professor, Dept. of
Meteorology, Institute of
Geosciences, Federal
University of
Rio de Janeiro

WalkerJeff

Prof. in the Department ofCivil Engineering, Monash
University

Xiaodong

International Center for
Climate and Environmental
Sciences (ICCES),
Institute of AtmosphericPhysics (IAP), Chinese
Academy of Sciences

Zeng

BrazilFemaleReceived
PhD in2002

Australia

Male

Received
PhD in1999

Male

Received
PhD in1998

China- Precipitation- Recent projects include: “The SIO Regional Spectral Model
Contribution to the North American Regional Climate Change
Assessment Program,” “Evaluating the Role of Snow Coveron Seasonal to Inter-annual Predictability of Temperature andPrecipitation” (NASA),
NASA Energy and Water cycle Studies (NEWS) Project“Global Water andEnergy Budgets”- Environmental sensing;- Earth system modeling;- Optimal convergence of model predictions with observations
through data assimilation- Spatial and temporal response of vegetation distribution to
global climate change, and the impact of vegetation on global
energy, water, and carbon balances

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ATTACHMENT 2: Status of the CEOP_AP data center status

CEOP_AP Data management status
Reference Site Name

1
2

Responsible Person

YY/MM/DD Completed# of Sta.

Basic
*1)
Info.
Complete

Ready

Data
UploadComplete

YY/MM/DD

Data Period

ReadyComplete

Datasetdocumentation
Complete

Quality Control

ongoing
ConvertCEOP
FormatSubmit to
NCAR

StatusEastern Siberian Tundra

Tetsuo Ohata
Hironori Yabuki

1O

08/12/03

09/07/30

2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31

09/08/05

09/08/14

ongoing

09/09/29

10/08/13

Available online

Eastern Siberian Taiga

Tetsuo Ohata
Hironori Yabuki

1O

08/12/03

09/07/31

2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31

09/08/05

09/08/14

ongoing

09/09/29

10/08/13

Available online

Gombo Davaa
Ichirow Kaihotsu

16O

09/01/23

2

O

09/01/23

22

O

08/12/03

2007/06/15 - 2008/11/25

09/02/19

ongoing

5

O

25

O

09/01/23

09/08/13

1

O

09/01/23

ongoing

3

Mongolia

4

Tongyu

5

Tibet

6

Himalayas

7

Northern South China
Sea - Southern Japan

8

Chao-Phraya River

Hu Zeyong
Hirohiko Ishikawa
Shigenori Haginoya
Gianni Tartari
Elisa Vuillermoz
Roberta Toffolon
Tsing-Chang (Mike)
Chen
Ming-Cheng Yen
Masatoshi Aoki

9

North-East Thailand

Masatoshi Aoki

1

O

09/01/23

10 Western Pacific Ocean

Hisayuki Kubota
Ryuichi Shirooka

1O

08/12/03

1

O

08/12/03

1

O

08/12/03

11 Mongolia Arvayheer
12 Mongolia Nalaikh
13 Northern Mongolia
14 Lower Yellow River
15 Central Vietnam
16 Northeast Bangladesh
17 Pakistan Karakorum

Gombo Davaa
Hironori Yabuki
Gombo Davaa
Hironori Yabuki
Gombo Davaa
Jun Asanuma
Dawen Yang
Lei Huimin
Jun Matsumoto
Jun Matsumoto
Toru Terao
Gianni Tartari
Elisa Vuillermoz
Roberta Toffolon

Data managing by own system (available online : SFC by 2004, STM by 2007, FLX by 2008)2

O

09/01/23

1

O

09/01/23

1

O

08/12/03

1

O

09/06/25

2

O

2005/01/01 - 2008/12/31

09/08/20

91%

09/07/08

2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31

09/08/11

09/11/10

10/02/02

2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31

10/04/07

10/08/15

7O

Wu Zhang
Xin LiWu Yueru
Zhang Zhihui
Wang Weizhen
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Fadli Syamsudin
Jun-Ichi Hamada
Hideyuki Kamimera
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Fadli Syamsudin
Jun-Ichi Hamada
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Fadli Syamsudin
Jun-Ichi Hamada
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Fadli Syamsudin
Jun-Ichi Hamada
Manabu D. Yamanaka
Fadli Syamsudin
Jun-Ichi Hamada

1O

09/01/23

10/04/08

2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31

6O

09/01/23

09/10/19

2007/01/01 - 2008/12/31

2

O

08/12/03

09/06/23

2007/01/01 - 2007/12/31

22 Central Indonesia

23 Eastern Indonesia

24 Northern Indonesia

25 Southern Indonesia
26 Murrumbidgee

09/11/11

10/08/13
11/02/07

Data managing by own system

Ken-ichi Ueno

19 Lanzhou

21 Western Indonesia

10/09/03
11/02/07

Data managing by own system (available online : SFC by 2007)18 Tsukuba

20 Heihe River Basin

Remarks

1

O

08/12/03

1

O

08/12/03

1

O

08/12/03

1

O

08/12/03

10/06/08

ongoing

09/08/02

10/04/07

QC is available from AMY
site

10/07/06,
10/08/24

10/06/30,
ongoing*2) instrument info at

10/08/13 Kotaban is online Kototabang Station iscomplted

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Data managing by own system (available online : SFC by 2007, STM by 2007)

Jason Evans*1)

Basic info. (station location and site, data manager's info.) is completed.

ATTACHMENT 3 Message from Steve Williams, CEOP Data Management Co-Chair and the in-situ archive
Chair, on the completion of the CEOP in-situ data activity at NCAR EOL. (March 2011)
All,
NCAR’s Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) has been supporting CEOP in a number of areas including the planningand coordination of CEOP Data Management activities through meetings, teleconferences, and documents. Primary
support provided by EOL has been the collection, processing, Quality Assurance (QA), archival, and dissemination of
CEOP Reference Site data/metadata, and EOL currently integrates and hosts this long-term archive for the scientificcommunity. NOAA’s Climate Projects Office (CPO) has funded this activity since 2001, and with the recent transition
from CEOP to GHP, CPO has directed EOL to complete these CEOP activities by September 2011. No additional
funds have been allocated to EOL beyond October 2011 to provide any support to CEOP/GHP.
In review of the existing budget and estimating the level of effort to complete these activities, EOL plans to collectavailable CEOP Reference Site data through March 2011. At that time, EOL will complete the processing and QA of
all “in-house” holdings and add these data to the final archive. EOL will continue to maintain the CEOP data
management web pages through September 2011 and provide access to the Reference Site data and metadata.
During this period, EOL will also continue to work closely with the other CEOP Data Centers (satellite and model
output) as well as individual Reference Sites. It is expected that based on the CEOP data policy, processed data
(through 2009) will be added from as many contributing Reference Sites as possible. So, it is important that you
submit your processed quality assured Reference Site data through 2009 to EOL prior to 31 March 2011 so that thesedata can be reviewed and included in the final archive.
A lot of effort has gone into the planning, design, and development of the Reference Site database over the past 10
years, and it has provided a high quality resource and long-term legacy to the climate community. The ability to utilize
these climatologically diverse Reference Site data (surface, soils, tower, and flux) all in a common format with uniform
QA and user friendly interface for data access, has greatly enhanced scientific research as evidenced by data
download metrics, publications, and personal correspondence. So, on behalf of CEOP, I thank you very much for all
your contributions and participation over the years in these efforts. It is important to recognize the need to continue
contribution of data to networks as appropriate, which allow open access for the broader scientific community (such as
Fluxnet). Coordination of data within these networks may be undertaken in support of GEWEX Imperatives, throughGHP in due course.
It is possible that there may be a few additional teleconferences beyond March to work out any remaining details
related to the archive completion. Feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
Regards,
Steve10