WMO Manuals and Guides
WMO Manuals and Guides
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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.
DBCP Technical Document, 05. WOCE Surface velocity programme, Joint Workshop on SVP Barometer drifter evaluation
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - WMO, 1995
Understanding climate change : a beginner's guide to the UN Framework Convention
Information Unit on Climate Change (IUCC); Information Unit on Climate Change (IUCC); United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - UNEP, 1995Introduction: A giant asteroid could hit the earth! Something else could happen! The global temperature could rise! Wake up! The 1990s have been a time of international soul- searching about the environment. What are we doing to our planet? More and more, we are realising that the Industrial Revolution has changed forever the relationship between humanity and nature. There is real concern that by the middle or the end of the next century human activities will have changed the basic conditions that have allowed life to thrive on earth.
Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology
Complementary to the Guide to Climatological Practices (WMO-No. 100), this guide provides both a source text and reference book for techniques already in standard use in the processing of marine climatological data, which are primarily meteorological and oceanographic observations made by ships in the WMO Voluntary Observing Ships scheme. The guide also describes in detail the diverse applications of such data in the service of the marine user community.
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