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L’enseignement et la formation professionnelle à une époque de changements rapides: Faits saillants du Quatorzième colloque de l’OMM sur l’enseignement et la formation professionnelle (OMM N° 1291)
This publication explores the importance of discussing the challenges and opportunities of education and training in a period of rapid change. This was the main theme of the Fourteenth WMO Symposium of Education and Training (SYMET-14), and this document summarizes the main conclusions and recommendations from SYMET-14, including the Statement agreed by the participants on the final day of the Symposium.
Education and Training in a Period of Rapid Change: Highlights of the Fourteenth WMO Symposium on Education and Training (WMO-No. 1291)
This publication explores the importance of discussing the challenges and opportunities of education and training in a period of rapid change. This was the main theme of the Fourteenth WMO Symposium of Education and Training (SYMET-14), and this document summarizes the main conclusions and recommendations from SYMET-14, including the Statement agreed by the participants on the final day of the Symposium.
Assessment Guidelines for End-to-End Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Systems (WMO-No. 1286)
This document provides a framework to the National Hydrological Services (NHSs) to evaluate their capability to deliver accurate, timely, and spatially adequate flood forecasts that can be interpreted by partners and end-users and which support decision-making at various levels. The assessment covers the entire End-to-End Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (E2E FFEWS) value chain from observations, to data collection, modelling and forecasting, dissemination of warnings and response to these warnings by the end users. With the help of these guidelines, NHSs can identify their strengths ...
Guidelines for the Assessment of Competencies for Provision of Climate Services (WMO-No. 1285)
The WMO EC-68 approved the Competency framework for climate services to help NMHSs and other institutions to deliver high-quality climate services in compliance with WMO standards and regulations, specifically those defined by the Standing Committee on Climate Services (SC-CLI) and the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
WMO Technical Regulations and Guides describe in more detail the practices, procedures and specifications that Members are expected to follow or implement in establishing their arrangements in compliance with the Technical Regulations, and in otherwise develop ...
Guidelines on Implementation of a Coastal Inundation Forecasting–Early Warning System (WMO-No. 1293)
This publication, Guidelines on Implementation of a Coastal Inundation Forecasting - Early Warning System (CIF-EWS) is the result of a resolution of the World Meteorological Congress 18 (2019) to assist vulnerable countries to implement their own CIF-EWS. These Guidelines are based on the successful implementation of demonstration systems in four countries between 2009 and 2019 through the Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project (CIFDP) (Swail et al., 2019). Additionally, these Guidelines can be used as a valuable planning tool for coastal zone management, in order to build resili ...
Guidelines on Communicating Climate Science and Services (WMO-No. 1288)
This Guidance to Communicating Climate Science and Services emerges from the experiences of the WMO Expert Team on Capacity Development and Communications, Task Team on Communications. This publication recommends approaches for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) to use as they continue to build their climate services. These approaches are supported by a wide breadth of materials, from peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, to committee meeting notes, by a deep depth of understanding from experts worldwide, and by a long length of experience in climate services within NM ...
Basic Documents, 2. Technical Regulations (WMO-No. 49), Volume III: Hydrology
This volume contains definitions of technical terms, a classification of hydrological observing stations, and guidance on the establishment of networks of these stations, their identification, observing programmes, equipment and methods of observation. It also contains a chapter on meteorological services for hydrology.
A Primer on Public Policy and Management with a Focus on National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (WMO-No. 1289)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Prof. Dodo J. Thampapillai, Prof. Lim Siong Guan, Prof. Caroline Brassard, Prof. Zeger Van Der Wal, Dr Assia Alexieva, Dr Adrian Kuah, Prof. Mukul Asher, Prof. Donald Low and Mr Alvin Li - WMO, 2022 (WMO-No. 1289)The various chapters in this volume are based on presentations delivered in three workshops at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy - National University of Singapore between 2018 and 2021. The Meteorological Services Singapore and the World Meteorological Organisation sponsored these workshops. The aim of these workshops and this publication is to convey content on concepts and methods of public policy and management to professionals engaged in Meteorological Services. The volume consists of four parts, namely Public Management, Results and Evidence based Public Management, Economics and ...
Aerodrome reports and forecasts (WMO-No. 782) : A Users’ Handbook to the Codes
This booklet is a simple guide to the aeronautical meteorological codes, METAR, SPECI and TAF, applicable on 4 November 2021, updated as a result of the alignment of the Technical Regulations (WMO-No. 49), Volume II – Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation, Parts I and II, with Amendment 80 to Annex 3 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation. It is aimed at a wide range of users such as pilots, flight dispatchers, air traffic control staff and meteorological observers at smaller aerodromes where sophisticated automated instruments are not available. Although the reade ...
Manual on the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WMO-No. 1160) : Annex VIII to the WMO Technical Regulations
This is the first edition of the Manual on the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WMO-No. 1160), developed following the decision of the Sixteenth World Meteorological Congress to proceed with the implementation of that System (WIGOS). It was approved by the Seventeenth World Meteorological Congress.
The Manual was developed by the Executive Council through its Inter-Commission Coordination Group on WIGOS, specifically its Task Team on WIGOS Regulatory Material. It is the result of a collaborative approach involving all interested technical commissions under the leadership of the C ...
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