Workshop of Advisers on External Relations for RAII/V

28-30 April, Jeju, Republic of Korea

International Cooperation
Activities of KMA

Jae-Cheol NAM, PhD, Director of International Cooperation Division

 Contents

1. KMA Vision

2. Observational System

3. Current Cooperation Activities

4. Cooperation with North Korea

 Vision and Mission
Visio n
World Best 365 !!

Missio n To realize In-time, Accurate, and Valuable Meteorological

Services throughout the year

 To enhance the prevention capacity for mitigation of weather and climate disasters
 To enhance the utilization of meteorological information for the better quality of life
 To create highly value-added weather information to lead the sustainable
development
 To strengthen the capacity for international cooperation and the understanding on
weather related issues
 To supply advanced meteorological services to strengthen the leap for future

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Ground Observation Network
Conventional Station
No. No. of No. of daily
Obs. station observation
Surface 74 8-24
Upper-air 7 2-4

Aeronautical 10 24-48

Automatic Weather Station

No. No. of No. of daily
Measured elements
Obs. station observation
Every 1 min. Temp., Wind,
AWS 539
(Continuous) Preci., etc
Ocean Temp., Wind,
5 24
Buoy Wave, SST, etc.
Radar Network (11 sites)

KWK BRI
2005 2000

PSN
교체
2005 신설
JNI
2001

Baekryungdo
Gwangduksan

GSN Gwangduksan Donghae GD<

2006 2003

Kunsan
MyeonBongsan

KSN Busan MYN

Jindo
2007 2004

Sungsanpo
Gosan

DNH SSP
2009 2006
Wind Profile Network(10)

Sokcho
Baengnyeongdo Munsan Gangneung

Ulleungdo
Wonju
Osan Haenam Munsan
Uljin
Bukgyeongnyeolbido
Chupungnyeong
Gunsan Pohang

Namwon

Gwangju Masan
Gangneong Gunsan
Haenam
Heuksando

Rawinsonde(7)

Gosan Wind Profiler(10)

Masan
Processed Data Distribution Coverage

FY-2 MTSAT-1R
(China): 105E (Japan): 140E

128.2E

116.2E
 2nd Super Computer

 Outlines
ㅇ replace of 1st Supercomputer in 2005
ㅇ purpose for High Resolution Model and Data Assimilation
ㅇ location : Korea Internet Data Center

 Winner and System

ㅇ Model name: Cray, CRAY X1E
ㅇ Performance: 18Tflops
ㅇ Number of CPU: 1024
ㅇ Memory capacity: 4,096 GB
ㅇ Number of node: 256

 Budget : about 65 millions USD

Telecommunication Network

14~45 Mbps
4~12 Mbps
2 ~4 Mbps

5 Regional H.Q.
39 WX Station
49 WX Obs.
 International Cooperation
Japan
China (1985) Philippine
Austalia (1994) (2007) EUMETSAT
(1996) (2006)
KOREA
Russia
(1999)
(KMA) ASEAN
(2005)
Germany Iran
(2000) USA Mongolia (2005)
(2000) (2003)
 WMO
 GEO
 IPCC
 ESCAP/WMO TC
 UNFCC
 ASEAN
 APEC/APCN
 Contribution to WMO activities
- WMO/VCP (F)
- Typhoon Committee
- AMDAR
- THORPEX
APEC Climate Center (APCC)
Motivations
Increased Greenhouse gases
Communication channel for the
Global Warming exchange of regional climate information
Rapid Climate Change

97/98 El Nino

Unusual Weather/
Capacity building on climate
Climate Events
monitoring/prediction
Meteorological Disasters

 Reduce of natural disasters

 Social and economic benefit
APCC Multi-Institutional Cooperation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
USA
Meteorological Service of Canada
National Centers
for Environmental Prediction
USA
National Climate Center/CMA
China

International Research Institute

for Climate Prediction
USA
Institute of
Atmospheric Physics
Center for China
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere
Studies
USA
Central Weather Bureau
Chinese Taipei
Hydrometeorological Centre
of Russia
Japan Meteorological Agency
Main Geophysical Observatory
Russia
Seoul National University
National Institute of Meteorological
Research Korea Meteorological Administration
 Training Programme

 Training program in the field of

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

 Four-week annual training course on ICT for Meteorological Services since
2005
※ Training course on Weather Forecasting from Operational Meteorologists
from 1998 to 2005
 Designed to help the participants improve their IT related jobs in
meteorological
services by broadening the understanding of both basic and state-of-the-art
ICT
that are used in WMO IT Programs and meteorological services in NMSs
supported by KOICA
 4 participants from 13 WMO Members from 3 June to 2 July 2007
 Training Programme

 Three-month training program in the field of climate

prediction
 Five participants from Indonesia, Peru, Mongolia, Philippines and Vietnam
from 4 August to 3 October 2007
 To contribute the reduction of economic losses, and the protection of
   life and property among participating developing countries by  sharing
   high-cost climate data and information and providing a skillful
   real-time climate prediction
 Training Programme

 Two-week training course in the field of Meteorological Satellite

 13 participants from Indonesia, Peru, Mongolia, Philippines and Vietnam from
4 August to 3 October 2007
 To introduce the COMS (Communication, Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite)
which is the first Geostationary Meteorological Satellite launched by Korea in
2009 and make understand the COMS program such as development plan,
satellite system, and data processing system
 Training Programme

 One-week training course in the field of Numerical Weather

Prediction
 ASEAN-ROK Cooperation Training Workshop for the use of Numerical Weather
Prediction Products from 30 October to 3 November 2006
 19 participants from 9 GEO Members
 To share KMA’s Global NWP Products and the use methods with ASEAN
Members
 Training Programme

 GEO Training Workshop on Numerical Weather Prediction

 15 participants from 14 GEO Members from 9 to 13 April 2007
 To train forecasters or NWP relevant staff members from GEO Members in the
application and interpretation of NWP products and their use in operational
forecasting and to share the knowledge of NWP techniques with GEO
members
as a part of GEO Capacity building projects to improve their own capabilities
for
prevention of meteorological disasters.
 Technology Transfer and Capacity Building

 Offer of NWP system based on PC clusters

 The system was installed in Mongolia Met. Service in 2004 and in Sri
Lanka
in 2005.
 NWP system support will be extended to other developing countries with
financial support of KOICA.
 KMA experts of PC clustering are dispatched to Mongolia Met. Service
every
year for system upgrade and technology transfer.
 NWP System in Mongolia

Out put of NWP System

 NWP System in Sri Lanka

SNWPS
• MM5 (nonhydrostatic mesoscale model)
• resolution: 30 km, 10 km
• Forecast hours: 48 hours every 12 hourly

http://203.94.74.166:8080/snwps/
Provision of NWP products through KMA web….

Resolution of the 13th WMO RA II

www.kma.go.kr
City-specific NWP products through KMA web….

13 Countries 154 Cities

Bangladesh(9), Bhutan(36),
Cambodia(4), Hong Kong(1),
Iran(4), Kazahstan(18),
Kyrgyz Rep.(7), Lao DPR(4),
Wind Barb,
Temperature
Mongolia(7), Myanmar(6),
Nepal(4), Oman(30),
Surface Pressure
Viet Nam(24)
Relative
Humidity

Wind Barb and

Speed

precipitation

http://203.247.66.206/ema/ema03/ra2_city_index.html
Temperature
Technical Cooperation Project(1)
Historical Climate Data Rescue and Modernization of
Preserving System in Mongolia (NAMHEM)

 Project cost : About 1,300,000 USD

 Duration : Two years from 2008 to 2009
 Scope : Scan and preservation of historical climate data
Construction of database system
Development of the combined meteorological information System
Exchange of experts and conduct training
Technical Cooperation Project(2)
Establishment of an Early Warning and Monitoring System for
Disaster Mitigation in the Philippines (PAGASA)

 Project cost : About 1 million USD

 Duration : Two years from 2007 to 2008
 Scope : Provision of Equipments including AWSs, Flood markers etc.

( Three provinces; Iloilo, Aurora, Lanoa)

Training on the Weather forecasting, Equipments, Hydrology
(each course for 4 experts, total 12experts, for 3weeks)
Dispatch of Korean Experts on the Meteorology and hydrology
 Bilateral Cooperation meeting with North Korea

The first bilateral cooperation meeting

 Date : 17-18 December 2008
 Venue: Gae-Sung city North Korea
 Delegation:

South Korea: H-S Kim (Principal; MOU), J-C Nam (KMA), K-S Kim (KMA), B-W Lee
(MOU)
North Korea: K-I Han (principal; SHIMA), K-G Choi (SHIMA), C-H Hwang (SHIMA),
Y-M Lee
 Agenda:

1. Provide observational equipments

- Upper air observation instruments for two stations (Pyeongyang,
Hamheong)
- Asian dust monitoring system(3), Automatic Weather System(27)
Bilateral meeting with North Korea

17-18 December 2007, Gae-Sung, North Korea

Bilateral meeting with North Korea

17-18 December 2007, Gae-Sung, North Korea

Installation AWS (Gumgang San, Gae-Sung)

October 2007, Gumgang-San, North Korea