2021-03-25 Meeting notes

Owned by Xiaoxia Chen, created
Last updated: Mar 25, 2021
1 min read

Date

Mar 25, 2021 12:00-13:00 UTC

Participants

  • SADC

    • Dr. Prithiviraj BOONEEADY

  • WMO Secretariat

    • Lars Peter RIISHOJGAARD

    • Peiliang SHI

    • Enrico FUCILE

    • Timo PROESCHOLDT

    • Xiaoxia CHEN

Goals

  • Discuss Southern African Development Community (SADC) 40 Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) data exchange on GTS

Discussion topics

Item

Presenter

Notes

Item

Presenter

Notes

Background information

Dr. Prithiviraj BOONEEADY

  • SADC consists of 16 members (Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa,  Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) . now 40 AWSs are supporting 10 members:

  • SADC helds a weekly meeting with 10 SADC members for status update

  • Only South Africa and Malawi have already installed the stations. The supplier is from UK.

  • Malawi has 5 stations.

Action items

SDAC to put Enrico in contact with the company that helps install the AWSs.
SDAC to provide the list of countries and the number of AWSs.
SDAC to arrange a meeting, including WMO Secretariat and the supplier.

Decisions

  1. After the meeting with the supplier, the WMO Secretariat will go country by country to tackle the issues, starting with Malawi. Mozambique follows.

  2. Date of next meeting: March 30 (Tuesday), 8:00 UTC (9:00 UK, 10:00 CET)