Roshydromet
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
123995, D-242, GSP-5, Novovagankovsky per., 12
Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring of Russia (Roshydromet) - a federal executive body under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, which performs the functions of managing state property and providing state services in the field of hydrometeorology and related areas, monitoring the natural environment, its pollution, state supervision of work on the active impact on meteorological and other geophysical processes. Submits to the Government of the Russian Federation. The Regulation on the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) was approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 23, 2004 No. 372, as amended on December 14, 2006 and May 29, November 7, 2008.
Structure
Functions
The main functions of Roshydromet:
- state supervision of works on active impact on meteorological and other geophysical processes on the territory of the Russian Federation;
- licensing of certain types of activities within the competence of the Service in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation;
- state accounting of surface waters and maintenance of the state water cadastre in terms of surface water bodies;
- maintenance of the Unified State Data Fund on the state of the natural environment, its pollution,
- formation and operation of the state monitoring network, including organization and termination of the activities of stationary and mobile observation points, determination of their location, state monitoring of atmospheric air.
Modernization and technical re-equipment of Roshydromet
Supercomputer Roshydromet
Main article: Roshydromet supercomputer
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2015-2019: Roshydromet-2 Project
In 2014, the continuation of the project was approved - "Modernization and technical re-equipment of organizations and institutions of Roshydromet" (Roshydromet-2 project), "designed for a period until 2019. As before, it will be carried out with borrowed funds from[1]). The total cost of the project, including, among other things, the modernization of surveillance networks and the "strengthening of ICT infrastructure," was estimated at $139.5 million.
2009-2014: Roshydromet-1 Project
In 2009-2014 a large-scale project "Modernization and technical re-equipment of institutions and organizations of Roshydromet" (Roshydromet-1) was implemented.
Financing
A loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), part of the World Bank Group, in the amount of $80 million was raised for the Roshydromet-1 project. Of these, it was planned to allocate more than $45 million to modernize the computing archival complex and more than $40 million to modernize surveillance networks. On the part of Russia itself, the amount of co-financing of the project in the amount of $53.3 million was provided, which during the implementation of the project was increased to $100 million[2]
Audit of the Accounts Chamber
- In September 2011 , the Accounts Chamber announced the results of the audit of the use of the IBRD loan for the modernization of Roshydromet. According to the auditors, at the stage of preparation of the project, technical solutions were insufficiently worked out, which led to an increase in the volume of services, an expansion of the range of equipment supplied and, as a result, an increase in the cost of the project by 35%, as well as the timing of its implementation. Also, at the time of this check, equipment in the amount of 29 million rubles was not installed. The Accounts Chamber noted the need to improve the efficiency of managing similar projects.
- In August 2015, the Accounts Chamber announced the results of an audit of the effectiveness of the provision of public services and the implementation of work in the field of hydrometeorology in 2013-2015. According to auditors, during the audited period, Roshydromet did not effectively implement new methods of forecasting and automation of observations. Details by link.
Project results
In August 2015, Roshydromet told TAdviser about the results of the Roshydromet-1 project. The federal service noted that one of the important areas of this project was the modernization of meteorological, aerological and hydrological networks, communication system, prognostic units and the reference base of institutions.
The measures taken within the framework of the Roshydromet-1 project made it possible to select and develop typical technological solutions in systems for observing, collecting and disseminating hydrometeorological information, systems for preparing forecasts for the development of hydrometeorological processes, modernize centers that provide numerical calculations of weather forecasts and assessment of climate changes, as well as institutions that maintain the Unified State Hydrometeorological Data Fund, noted in Roshydromet.
The federal service cited TAdviser data that during the Roshydromet-1 project, a total of about 2,500 pieces of equipment were delivered and installed on the hydrometeorological observation network (about 100 institutions). The balls were modernized: 1627 automated complexes were delivered to them in 5 out of 30 parameters, as well as devices that meet the requirements of the World Meteorological Organization, providing the collection, primary processing, accumulation and transmission of measurement results.
Equipment was also installed to modernize the communication system at stations, and first of all - at hard-to-reach and radiating ones. In order to develop the state observation network, 310 automatic meteorological stations (AMS) are installed in areas where weather observations are extremely important for detecting and predicting dangerous phenomena, as well as restoring previously closed and mothballed stations.
In addition, 19 actinometric stations are equipped with measuring the parameters of solar radiation and having long rows of observations, modern equipment and instruments for recording solar radiation flows.
Within the framework of the project, automated hydrological networks were created and put into operation in priority basins of the river. Ussuri (64 hydrological posts), the river Kuban (77 posts), the river Oka (21 posts).
64 aerological stations of the atmospheric aerological radio sounding network were modernized by replacing part of the aerological complexes, including 6 aerological stations.
As part of the project, activities were also carried out related to the modernization of the World Meteorological Center (MIC) in Moscow and data storage and archiving facilities in Obninsk, regional meteorological centers (RSMC) in Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk and the ICRD in the Main Geophysical Observatory (GGO) in St. Petersburg, communication and data transmission systems.
Part of the work within Roshydromet-1 concerned high-performance computing systems. A computer complex with a peak capacity of 27 Tflops was installed at the Main Directorate of GVC Roshydromet. At the RSMC in Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk, computer systems with a peak performance of 660 Gflops were installed.
Four supercomputer complexes were also put into operational operation in full at the World Meteorological Center of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Moscow, at the regional meteorological centers of the WMO in Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk, at the Main Geophysical Observatory in St. Petersburg. Based on them, research, testing and experimental work are carried out in order to introduce new models and methods of forecasting? they say in Roshydromet.
Another project within the framework of Roshydromet-1 was the modernization of the Roshydromet data archiving system, which operates on the basis of the All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information - the World Data Center (VNIIGMI-MCD) in Obninsk, the federal service says. According to representatives of Roshydromet, a modern computerized data archive was created, high-performance servers, software and devices with a large amount of memory for storing data and operating archives were installed, as well as the operation of a modern automated library and automatic and semi-automatic devices for storing information on paper and magnetic media and much more.
In turn, for the preparation and holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, 4 automated meteorological complexes (AMK) and 7 AMS were installed and operates on-line.
Notes
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