1. Drought data exchange
Platform
Activity 1.3
Gregor Gregorič, EARS/DMCSEE
Luka Honzak, BO-MO LTD.
4rd IDMP CEE Workshop
Bucharest, 21 & 22 April 2015

2. Activity list
Drought management platform (an information architecture and
an intelligent infrastructure that enables exchange of data,
relevant for drought analysis, as well as continuous automated
sensing, monitoring, and decision support for drought risk
management operations) is considered within the IDM CEE
project

3. Work chronology
• preparation of draft version of Implementation guide
– needed by partners in order to start preparations of their own data
– started in autumn 2013, finished in the beginning of 2014
• survey about existing operational products for drought monitoring in
their countries
– send to partners in the beginning of 2014 with draft version of
Implementation guide - 7 surveys received until 2nd
IDMP CEE
Workshop
• organization of training session during 2nd
IDMP CEE Workshop in
Ljubljana
– based on surveys and draft version of Implementation guide

4. Work chronology
• preparation of final version of Implementation guide with detailed
description how to prepare metadata for Drought Metadata Catalogue
– based on input from training and remarks from PRG
– finished in June 2014 and send to partners
• integration of data provided by partners into EDO
– work with JRC staff
– finished in the beginning of 2015
• preparation of Implementation report
– finished in the beginning of 2015
• presentations have been prepared for all IDMP CEE workshops and
training has been given on second one

5. IDMP Platform – EDO (JRC)
• Several options for selection of
data exchange platform for IDMP
CEE project have been studied
• Main consideration was in
decision to develop new services
or to attach IDMP CEE project to
one of the existing systems
• Due to available time and
resources, also after the project
end, the decision to use existing
platform has been made
http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

6. EDO
• EDO MapViewer
– a web mapping service
– http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1120
• Drought Metadata Catalogue
– a web application for
searching and updating the
drought catalog
– http://vap-
xjedo.jrc.it/Search/Search.h
tml

7. Overview of received data
Product
Bulgaria Monthly weather bulletin, Precipitation anomaly, SMI, SPI
Czech R.
Amount of usable water in loam soils in Czech Republic, Basic water balance of grasslands in the Czech Republic,
Potential evapotranspiration of grassland, comparison with the long-term average 1961 – 2010, Weekly amount
of precipitation, measured values
Hungary Agro-meteorological maps, Monthly integrated water balance report and forecast, WAHASTRAT
Lithuania Selianinov hydrothermal coefficient (HTC)
Moldova SPI
Poland SPI: Standardized Precipitation Index
Romania
Agrometeorological Bulletin, Seasonal Meteorological Forecast, Soil Moisture map, SPI Index Map, Weather
warnings
Slovakia Forecast of forest fire risk index
Slovenia
Agriculture Soil Water Balance Bulletin in Slovenia
Drought Bulletin for SE Europe
Precipitation Percentiles map
Standardized Precipitation Index map
Ukraine
HTC
SPI

8. Bulgaria
• Monthly weather bulletin
• Precipitation anomaly
• SMI
• SPI
Public available (http://www.meteo.bg/)

9. Hungary
• Agro-meteorological maps
– Hungarian Meteorological Service
– actual precipitation, temperature
anomalies, soil moisture, and
surface temperature data
• Monthly integrated water balance report
and forecast
– General Directorate of Water
Management
Public available
(www.met.hu/idojaras/agrometeorologia/,
http://www.vizugy.hu/)

10. Romania
• Agrometeorological Bulletin
• Seasonal Meteorological Forecast
• Soil Moisture map
• SPI Index Map
• Weather warnings
Public available (http://www.meteoromania.ro/anm/?lang=ro_ro)

11. Conclusions and outlook
• In this activity we established and completed first step in
interoperability
• 26 products from 10 countries and imported them into the Drought
Metadata Catalogue
• Almost all countries use operational products for monitoring drought
conditions; all countries have capacity to implement common set of
drought indicators
– a lot of different products are used due to historical reasons => it is
difficult (and, in fact, we are not sure if it is also wise) to force
implementation of common indicators

12. Conclusions and outlook
• Significant amount of work remains to be done.
• Logical next step would be continuation of integration of services to
EDO MapViewer
– At that time (besides regional DMCSEE products) only one product
from Slovenia has been integrated fully into EDO MapViewer.
• Further integration should be relatively easy, since main information
(including links to products) is already available.
– However for integration purposes additional work effort and
specific expertise (GIS/IT) should be planned

13. Conclusions and outlook
• EDO has proved to be an appropriate platform for exchange of data,
relevant for drought analysis in Europe
• Remaining questions
– Is EDO prepared for integration of new data, specially national
drought monitoring and early warning indicators from eastern and
south-eastern Europe
– Legal requirements for cooperation (bilateral/multilateral
agreement?)
– Future EDO strategy