Stewardship Maturity Assessment Tools for Modernization of Climate Data Management

High quality and well-managed climate data are the cornerstone of all services. Consistently assessing how well managed is one way to establish or demonstrate trustworthiness data. This paper presents World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Stewardship Maturity Matrix for Climate Data (SMM-CD) subsidiary SMM-CD National Regional Purposes (SMM-CD_NRP). Both these matrices have been developed with support WMO its High-Quality Global Management Framework (HQ-GDMFC). These self-assessment tools enable managers discover recommended stewardship practices, determine a roadmap future development improvement, as compare their process against other providers. Datasets which maturity assessed included in Catalogue, where users can include results assessments into decision-making process. The contains four categories (data access, usability usage, management, management) each has number aspects, scores assigned five levels. A smaller SMM-CD_NRP levels appropriate operationally produced datasets national regional scope. We explore case studies applied, supply links Guidance Documents Assessment Templates (which may be updated) found.