WMO Manuals and Guides
WMO Manuals and Guides
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Flood Management Tool Series, Technical Document, 01. Formulating a Basin Flood Management Plan
Global Water Partnership (GWP) - WMO, 2007This tool guides the contents and basic procedure of basin flood management planning, such as national development vision/policy and enabling mechanism of planning. The objectives of basin flood management plan are to protect life and property from flood risks and enhance the capability of socio-economic development in the flood plains to realize the development vision in a basin through Integrated Flood Management (IFM).
Flood Management Tool Series, Technical Document, 07. The Role of Land-Use Planning in Flood Management
This Tool identifies the processes and policy principles that necessitate a linkage of land use planning in integrated flood management. It provides an overview of land use planning instruments considered applicable in the flood management context, to identify the challenges and opportunities to a closer linkage between the various sectors concerned and to provide guidance as to how those sectors can work together.
Guide to aeronautical meteorological services cost recovery : principles and guidance
This guide explains in an informal and practical manner the way in which National Meteorological Services and other providers of meteorological services may recover costs for providing aeronautical meteorological services to aviation.
PWS, 17. Examples of Best Practice in Communicating Weather Information
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Gill Jon; Cacic Ivan; et al. - WMO, 2007 (WMO/TD-No. 1409)This document presents some examples of how to effectively communicate weather information, across a range of services delivery methods and information types. Examples include graphical presentations on the internet and television, good use of icons and other weather symbols, and a case of effective verbal communication on radio. The examples are real. They have been chosen because they encompass one or more elements of effective communication, such as clear language, or simple but effective use of graphics. Users of this document are invited to examine the examples and use them as guidance ...
ETR, 18. Manual on Policies and Procedures for WMO Fellowships
This Manual is meant to serve as a tool for the effective management, internal oversight and coordination of fellowship implementation, and to guide Member countries in their requests for fellowships, group training and familiarization visits.
JCOMM Technical Report, 31. Manual on sea level measurement and interpretation : volume IV: an update to 2006
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - WMO, 2006 (WMO/TD-No. 1339)
Manual on Community Approach to Flood Management in India
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Global Water Partnership (GWP); Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) - WMO, 2006
PWS, 14. Public Weather Services Strategy for Developing Public Education and Outreach
Before going into detail about how to develop a public
education and outreach programme, consideration will be
given to some general issues associated with such
programmes. These include:
• How can the effectiveness of public weather service
programmes be enhanced?
• What is public education and outreach?
• Why have a public education and outreach
programme?
• What are the key strategies for public education and
outreach?
• What are the critical success factors?
• What are the benefits of building pa ...
AMDAR Reference Manual: Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay
This Manual is intended to provide a comprehensive technical description of AMDAR from sensor systems and their characteristics to the final output product. The detailed technical material is arranged in a series of self-contained appendices. It is envisaged that these appendices will be updated as the technology advances.
Guide to Practices for Meteorological Offices Serving Aviation
This guide describes the routine operations of a meteorological office and highlights how to ensure customer satisfaction. It also covers the broad functions of a meteorological office serving aviation, the functions of a meteorological watch office, automation and centralization, training of aeronautical meteorological personnel, and the location and layout of offices.
Operational hydrology report (OHR), 47. Manual on sediment management and measurement
This report covers a wide range of issues related to sedimentation. Its objectives are to present to readers a basic understanding of operational methods of sediment transport measurement, and serve as a practical reference in dealing with sedimentation engineering.
PWS, 05. Public weather services in Region VI (Europe): report of survey
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Kusch Wolfgang; Kootval Haleh - WMO, 2002 (WMO/TD-No. 1100)This document provides an evaluation of responses to a questionnaire on public weather services (PWS) by WMO Members in Region VI (Europe). The questionnaire was developed by the RA VI Subgroup on Regional Aspects of Public Weather Services established by the Regional Association at its twelfth session (Tel Aviv, 1998).
PWS, 06. Guide on the application of new technology and research to public weather services
In order to provide guidance to support NMSs, especially smaller Services and those in developing countries, in their service delivery activities by keeping pace with developments in technology, a Technical Document (PWS-1, WMO/TD No. 1054) was prepared in 1999 under the auspices of the WMO Technical Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) by the Public Weather Services Expert Team on Product Development and Verification and Service Evaluation. The purpose of that Technical Document was to provide a framework for the requirements of public weather services for data and products. At its twelfth sess ...
PWS, 01. Technical framework for data and products in support of public weather services
The purpose of this Technical Document is to provide a framework for the requirements of public weather services for data and products, and the supporting hardware and software that are necessary to service those requirements. As such, this is a preliminary document, based on current available information, which will evolve with the further endeavour from experts within the Public Weather Services Programme, in cooperation with other OPAGs.
Guide to Public Weather Services Practices
This expanded and more comprehensive edition stresses the concept of user-focused service provision and delivery. The accompanying CD-ROM incorporates numerous examples of products from National Meteorological Services. The CD-ROM complements the guide by providing additional material to assist Members with improving their national public weather service programmes.
IOM Report, 65. Guidance on automatic weather systems and their implementation
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Jones D.W.; Bureau of Meteorology - WMO, 1997 (WMO/TD-No. 862)This report, prepared under the supervision ofDr R. Canterford (Australia), Chairman ofthe above Working Group, is the culmination ofthe work of several meteorologists and physicists working in the Australian Bureau ofMeteorology. The major part is based on a previous document on Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) by Mr. E. lesson, formerly of the Bureau of Meteorology and CIMO Rapporteur in this field. This was expanded to include, in Part I, the latest material on AWS technology and, in Part IT, guidance for the implementation ofnetworks and training ofusers ofdata produced by automatic statio ...
Weather and the media: a press relations guide
This practical guide is intended for the Information and Public Affairs (IPA) focal points in the NMHSs and senior WMO staff who are responsible for press relations or who have to deal with the media in the course of their work. The guide is a basic reference tool that will be used in training workshops on communication strategies and techniques.
World Climate Applications and Services Programme (WCASP), 43. Meteorological aspects and recommendations for assessing and using the wind as an energy source in the tropics
Daniels Anders; Schroeder Thomas A.; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) - WMO, 1997 (WMO/TD-No. 826)
Guide to the provision of meteorological service for international helicopter operations (WMO-No. 842)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) - WMO, 1996 (WMO-No. 842)This publication was deemed obsolete by the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology at its sixteenth session (CAeM-16) (24–27 July 2018) and has therefore been discontinued.
This publication, which was developed jointly with ICAO, gives detailed guidance on what meteorological service should be provided for helicopter operations. It includes information on the operational requirements for observations, reports and forecasts for helicopter operations and gives examples of such support over high seas and mountainous terrain from WMO Members.
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