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PWS, 27. Guidelines for Implementation of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)-Enabled Emergency Alerting
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Public Weather Services (PWS) Programme has the primary role of assisting National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to develop or enhance their capacity to deliver services to the public, media, disaster managers and responders and other users in socio-economic sectors. The PWS Programme therefore assists NMHSs in their responsibility of providing warning and alerting services for the safety of life and livelihood, and property when threatened by extreme weather events such as heavy rain, heavy snow, strong winds, heat waves and extre ...
Documents de base, 2. Règlement technique, Volume I: Pratiques météorologiques générales normalisées et recommandées
Le Règlement technique est établi par le Congrès météorologique mondial, conformément à l’article 8 d) de la Convention. Les buts du présent règlement sont les suivants:
a) Faciliter la coopération en matière de météorologie et d’hydrologie entre les Membres;
b) Répondre le plus efficacement possible, sur le plan international, aux besoins spécifiques des différents domaines d’application de la météorologie et de l’hydrologie opérationnelle;
c) Assurer, d’une manière adéquate, l’uniformité et la normalisation des pratiques et procédures employées pour atteindre les buts a) ...
Documentos básicos, 2. Reglamento técnico, Volumen I: Normas meteorológicas de carácter general y prácticas recomendadas
El Reglamento Técnico ha sido establecido por el Congreso Meteorológico Mundial, de acuerdo con lo dispuesto en el Artículo 8 d) del Convenio. Los objetivos del presente Reglamento son:
a) facilitar la cooperación entre los Miembros en materia de meteorología e hidrología;
b) satisfacer, de la forma más eficaz posible, necesidades específicas en los diversos campos de aplicación de la meteorología y de la hidrología operativa en el plano internacional;
c) velar adecuadamente por la uniformidad y la normalización de las prácticas y los procedimientos empleados para alcanzar ...
PWS, 26. Guidelines for Creating a Memorandum of Understanding and a Standard Operating Procedure between a National Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Service and a Partner Agency
Considering the crucial role of media in the delivery of warning and other essential meteorological information, it is important that NMHSs and respective national media organizations put in place formal agreements that will guide their collaborative work in serving the public. The CBS/OPAG-PWS Expert Team on Communication, Outreach and Public Education Aspects of PWS (ET/COPE) therefore decided to collaborate with the ET/DPM to prepare a set of guidelines, for use by NMHSs, for the establishment of such formal agreements between a National Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Service (NMS) a ...
الوثائق الأساسية, 2. اللائحة الفنیة : المجلد الأول - المعايیر العامة والممارسات الموصى بها للأرصاد الجوية
المنظمة العالمية للأرصاد - المنظمة العالمية للأرصاد, 2019 (طبعة 2019; مجموعة مطبوعات المنظمة-No. 49)يحدد المؤتمر العالمي للأرصاد الجوية مكونات اللائحة الفنیة وفقاً للمادة 8 (د) من الاتفاقیة.
الغرض من ھذه اللائحة:
-أ- تیسیر التعاون فیما بین الأعضاء في مجالي الأرصاد الجوية والهیدرولوجیا؛
-ب- القیام، بأكثر الطرق فاعلیة، بتلبیة الاحتیاجات المحددة لمختلف مجالات الأرصاد الجوية
والهیدرولوجیا التشغیلیة في المجال الدولي؛
ج- ضمان التطابق والتوحید القیاسي بصورة كافیة في الممارسات والإجراءات المستخدمة في تحقیق
الأھداف الواردة في الفقرتین الفرعیتین أ وب الواردتین أعلاه.
Basic Documents, 2. Technical Regulations, Volume I: General Meteorological Standards and Recommended Practices
The Technical Regulations are determined by the World Meteorological Congress in accordance with Article 8 (d) of the Convention.
These Regulations are designed:
(a) To facilitate cooperation in meteorology and hydrology among Members;
(b) To meet, in the most effective manner, specific needs in the various fields of application of meteorology and operational hydrology in the international sphere;
(c) To ensure adequate uniformity and standardization in the practices and procedures employed in achieving (a) and (b) above.
Meteoterm
METEOTERM is WMO terminology database. It contains specialized terminology in six languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. METEOTERM includes the International Meteorological Vocabulary, the International Glossary of Hydrology, the WMO abbreviations and acronyms and terms from related sciences that appear in WMO documents.
Manual on the Global Data-processing and Forecasting System (WMO-No. 485): Annex IV to the WMO Technical Regulations
In 2022, the Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM) decided to adopt WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System and WIPPS as the new name and acronym of the future GDPFS (Recommendation 23 (INFCOM-2)). The process of changing GDPFS to WIPPS in the Manual on the GDPFS will occur progressively.
This manual is designed to facilitate cooperation in data-processing and forecasting among Members; to specify obligations of Members in the implementation of the Global Data-processing and Forecasting System (GDPFS); and to ensure adequate uniformi ...
Guía del Sistema Mundial de Observación
Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM) - OMM, 2010 (Edición de 2010, actualización de 2017; OMM-No. 488)El objeto principal de la presente Guía es facilitar información práctica con respecto al desarrollo, organización, ejecución y funcionamiento del SMO a fin de ampliar tanto la participación de cada uno de los Miembros en el Sistema como los beneficios que de él pueden obtenerse. En la presente Guía se explican y describen prácticas, procedimientos y especificaciones del SMO que están dirigidas principalmente al personal técnico y administrativo de los Servicios Meteorológicos Nacionales (SMN) encargados de las redes de observación, con objeto de ayudarles a preparar instrucciones de carácter ...
Guide du système mondial d'observation
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM) - OMM, 2017 (édition 2010, mise à jour en 2017; OMM-No. 488)Le présent guide a pour objet premier de fournir des renseignements pratiques sur l’élaboration, l’organisation, la mise en oeuvre et l’exploitation du Système mondial d’observation afin d’encourager la participation de tous les Membres à ce dernier et d’optimiser son utilité pour chacun d’eux. Ce guide, qui explique et décrit les pratiques, les procédures et les spécifications du SMO, vise à aider le personnel technique et administratif responsable, dans les Services météorologiques nationaux, des réseaux de stations d’observation, à élaborer les instructions pour l’observation au plan nation ...
Руководство по Глобальной системе наблюдений
Основной целью Руководства является предоставление практической информации о развитии, организации, осуществлении и функционировании Глобальной системы наблюдений, для того чтобы расширить участие отдельных Членов ВМО в системе, а также увеличить пользу, которую они могут получить от этой системы. Руководство объясняет и представляет практику, процедуры и спецификации Глобальной системы наблюдений и предназначено для оказания помощи техническому и административному персоналу национальных метеорологических служб, который несет ответственность за сети станций наблюдений и готовит национальные ин ...
Guide to the Global Observing System
The main purpose of this guide is to provide practical information on the development, organization, implementation and operation of the Global Observing System in order to enhance both the participation of individual Members in the System and the benefits they may obtain from it. The Guide explains and describes Global Observing System practices, procedures and specifications and is aimed at assisting the technical and administrative staff of National Meteorological Services responsible for the networks of observing stations in preparing national instructions for observers.
Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8)
The first edition of this guide was published in 1950.
PWS-SG, 03. Communicating with the Public
This summary guide is for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) staff who have to communicate a message to the public. It provides advice on how to broadcast effectively. If you are a meteorologist who broadcasts weather forecasts and information on radio or television, or a senior manager who holds press conferences, then this guide is for you.
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