Proposed Restructuring of SERCOM Subsidiary Bodies and Expert Teams
The document outlines the proposed restructuring of the Subsidiary Bodies and Expert Teams of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Hydrological, Marine, and Related Environmental Services. It includes new expert teams, activities to be handled, and changes in leadership roles to align with emerging needs and directives.
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SERCOM-3 Third session of the Commission for Weather, Climate, Hydrological, Marine and Related Environmental Services and Applications Agenda item 5.2 Review of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission Bali, Indonesia 4-9 March 2024 Presented by: Ian Lisk President SERCOM
Justification In line with 6.13.1 (j), Rules of Procedure of Technical Commissions (WMO-No. 1240), this document presents the structure of subsidiary bodies of the Commission and their terms of reference to align them with emerging needs, directives of governing bodies and changed timelines for delivery of outputs. The proposed structure reflects the advice of the SERCOM Management Group Despite similarities in the names, it has to be noted that the terms of reference of the proposed Standing Committees are new and differ from the ones of the previous intersessional period
Current structure of SERCOM Subsidiary Bodies SC-AGR SC-DRR SC-AVI SC-CLI SC-HYD SC-MMO Chair: I. Lisk Vice-Chairs: G. Khambule, A. Henderson Chair: M. Brunet Vice-Chairs: F. Driouech, R. Kumar Kolli Chair: J. Parker Vice-chairs: A. Allen, S.H. You Chair: R. Stone Vice-Chair: E. Mateescu Chair: O. Moraes Vice-chair: F. Teichert Chair: Y. Simonov Vice-chair: M. Uriburu Quirno Expert teams: - AAS (Services) - ASC (Sciences) - DRG (Drought) - ARM (Risk Management) - ACDC(Cap Dev & Comm.) Expert Teams: - EWS - CHE (Cataloguing Hazardous Events) - WCM (Humanitarian) - MTG (Tech. Guides) - GSD (General Service Delivery) Expert teams: - ETC (Education, Training, and Competency) - MHS (Hazards Science) - CCV (Climate Change & Variability impacts) Expert teams: - CMA (Monitoring & Assessment) - DRC (Data Requirements) - CSIS (CSIS-O) - CID (Info for Decision- making) - CDC (Cap Dev & Comm.) Expert Teams: - CER (Coastal and Emergency Response) - MS (Maritime Safety) - MOR (MetOcean Requirements) - CCD (Competencies and Cap Dev) - AG-WWMIWS-SubC 14 Activities: Handled by teams formed by SC-HYD members and supported by Associated Experts as necessary + TTs TBA + Thematic Coordinators + Technical Focal Points SG-ENE SG-HEA SG-URB Chairs: J. Trtanj D. Campbell-Lendrum Chairs: L. Feng S. Holzwarth Chair: A. Troccoli Vice-chair: T. Fuchs
Proposed structure of subsidiary bodies of the Commission SC-DRR SC-AGR SC-AVI SC-CLI SC-HYD SC-MMO Expert teams: - CHE (Catalogue Hazardous Events) - EWS (Early Warning Services) - WSG (MHEWS and Service Delivery Technical Guidance) - URB (Integrated Urban Services) Expert Teams: - MS (Maritime Safety) - MOR (MetOcean Requirements) - WCHMER (Waves, Coastal Hazards and Marine Emergency Response) - CCD (Competencies and Cap Dev) + AG-WWMIWS-SubC (Worldwide Metocean Information and Warning Service Subcommittee) Expert teams: - Climate Services Information - Monitoring and Communicating Climate Variability And Change - Climate Data Development and Stewardship - Capacity Development Expert teams: - ETC (Education, Training, and Competency) - WCS (Weather and Climate Science) 36 Activities: Handled by working groups formed by SC-HYD members and supported by Associated Experts as necessary Expert teams: - DRG (Drought) Advisory Groups: -WCM (WMO Coordination Mechanism) - SWF (Severe Weather Forecasting) - TC (Tropical Cyclones) Other activities to be handled through a working group approach similar to SC-HYD + AG-VSA (Volcanic Science) + TT-LTP (Long-Term Plan) + ET-Cryo (Cryosphere related services) + TT-FIR (Fire Weather Services) SG-RENE AG-FFI JET-HEA Originally established through Res 15 (Cg-XVI) Objective: to improve the capacity of meteorological and hydrological services to jointly deliver timely and more accurate products and services required in flood forecasting and warning and in collaborating with disaster managers active in flood emergency preparedness and response . Moved from Executive Council to SERCOM Management Group Integrated Renewable Energy Services (subject to the development of the purpose, scope and ToRs by end of November) Joint Expert Team between SC-CLI and SC- DRR (and WHO)
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