2022-02-22 Meeting notes

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Round table brief instroduction

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Enrico

Enrico shares the project WIS2.0 Malawi AWSs Demonstrator Project

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• Lucy

  • Question 1: sustainability and maintenance issue of the stations

    • (Enrico) Secretariat (DIM division in WIS Branch) is now focusing on the technical side to provide the tools and training sessions. And also SOFF will help with sustainability.

  • Question 2: how to bridge the subscription and

    • (Enrico) Under the Unified Data Policy, WMO is asking for a number of stations to provide the data exchange for free.

  • Question 3: how many other pilot projects?

    • (Enrico) Malawi is now is the first one.

• Amos Makarau

  • Question 1: now there are 700+ stations in operation in Africa, our aim is to get these data available on WIS/GTS.

    • (Enrico) to experiment more with WIS2 in a box. To get 20 stations is not enough. Few stations are sending 24 files per day

• Amos Mtonya (Malawi)

  • (Enrico) physical box will be ready in a few months; focus on cloud more.

• Hassan: the list of issues category provided by Malawi will be helpful.

  • (Lucy) It is important to do the station assessment.