Meteorological Bureau: The National CIMISS System Is Officially Operational

At 8 o 'clock on December 15, the National Comprehensive MeteorologicalInformation Sharing Platform (CIMISS) was officially put into operation at themeteorological bureaus of 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalitiesdirectly under the Central government) including Beijing. At this point,together with the first batch of national meteorological business units and 6provincial (municipalities directly under the central government)meteorological bureaus to realize the formal operation of CIMISS, the systemhas been fully operational across the country. This marks the first time thatthe national and provincial meteorological departments have a unified,standard, and standardized data environment, and the first step in the"two-step" strategy of meteorological information continues to makesolid progress.

Up to now, as the core basic data support platform for meteorologicalbusiness, service, and management, CIMISS provides a total of 147 types ofreal-time and historical data online storage services, which can shorten thedata storage time by 20% and improve the data access efficiency by 2 to 5times.

Gu Jianfeng, director of the Forecast and Network Department of the ChinaMeteorological Administration said that the intensive, standard, and unifieddata environment ensures real-time online and standardized services for commondata of meteorological business research, greatly improves the efficiency ofdata access, helps to break the "data island", realizes the intensivemanagement of meteorological data resources, and ensures the consistency ofdata authority.

As of the end of November, China's independent research and development ofthe meteorological information processing system (MICAPS) 4.0, climateInformation Processing and Analysis System (CIPAS) 2.0, the national refinedmeteorological grid forecast, China meteorological data Network, and about 188business application systems in 31 provinces (autonomous regions andmunicipalities directly under the central government) have achieved directdocking with CIMISS.

In the first batch of provinces to achieve business operation, CIMISSconstruction benefits are beginning to show. Relying on CIMISS, the GuangdongMeteorological Bureau sorted out and optimized the provincial data environment.The daily data interface visits exceeded 10 million times, the daily data flowreached 500G, and the geographic information and cross-departmental dataservice capabilities were improved, effectively supporting the operation ofbusiness systems such as the provincial and county integration platform and theemergency warning decision auxiliary platform.

In Zhejiang Province, the provincial Meteorological Bureau joined theprovincial characteristic data service under the framework of CIMISS standardto improve the comprehensive data storage, management, and service capabilitiesof complex sources, diverse types, remote distribution, and rapid growth.During the G20 Hangzhou Summit, relying on the CIMISS data resource pool, theweather modification command system was locally and conveniently deployed inZhejiang Province, and 15 types of data such as ground-based observation,satellite radar, numerical forecast, as well as a variety of local data such asmicrowave radiation, wind profile, and cloud high infrared data were accessedin CIMISS within a few hours. The unified data environment provides strongsupport for meteorological service guarantee work.

Since the trial operation in June 2015, the system function, operationalreliability data integrity, correctness, and timeliness have been fully tested.However, according to Luo Bing, chief engineer of the National MeteorologicalInformation Center, CIMISS is not only a business system, but also a set ofstandards and a group of containers, which can not meet the application needsof all businesses. At present, some of the CIMISS source code has been open toprovincial meteorological departments, attracting national technical forces tojointly improve through data expansion and capacity expansion in thelocalization process, and the open-source efforts will continue to increase.

According to the reporter, in order to realize the integration andintensification of meteorological data resources, with application as theorientation and process as the main line, the National MeteorologicalInformation Center has organized and mobilized more than 100 informationtechnology forces across the country and made arduous efforts. Since 2009, thecenter has completed the preliminary preparation, overall design, softwaredevelopment, integration testing, demonstration joint testing, nationaldeployment, and trial operation, and has continuously supplemented CIMISS dataresources, improved system functions, developed 33 standards andspecifications, and organized more than 30 technical management trainings.