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Further urges Members to comply with:
1. The Guidelines for Relations among National
Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Services
Regarding Commercial Activities as given in Annex 2
to this resolution
2. The Guidelines for Relations between National
Meteorological or Hydrometeorological Services and the
Commercial Sector as given in Annex 3 to this resolution.
Invites Members to provide explanation of the WMO policy,
practice, and guidelines to the commercial sector and other
appropriate agencies and organizations;
Requests the Executive Council to:
1. Invite the president of CBS, in collaboration with the
other technical commissions as appropriate, to provide
advice and assistance on the technical aspects of imple-
mentation of the practice
2. Invite the president of CHy to continue his work on
the issue of commercialization and the international
exchange of hydrological data and products
3. Keep the implementation of this resolution under
review and report to Thirteenth Congress.
Requests the Secretary-General to:
1. Keep Members informed on the impacts of commer-
cialization on WMO Programmes and to facilitate the
exchange of relevant information on commercializa-
tion among NMSs
2. Report on a timely basis to all Members on those mete-
orological and related data and products on which
Members have placed conditions related to their re-
export for commercial purposes
3. Maintain effective coordination with IOC and other
involved international organizations in respect of joint
programmes during WMO’s implementation of the
practice.
Decides to review the implementation of this resolution at
Thirteenth Congress.
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ATA AND PRODUCTS TO BE
EXCHANGED WITHOUT CHARGE AND
WITH NO CONDITIONS ON USE
Purpose
The purpose of this listing of meteorological and related
data and products is to identify a minimum set of data and
products which are essential to support WMO Programmes
and which Members shall exchange without charge and
with no conditions on use. The meteorological and related
data and products which are essential to support WMO
Programmes include, in general, the data from the RBSNs
and as many data as possible that will assist in defining the
state of the atmosphere at least on a scale of the order of
200 km in the horizontal and six to 12 hours in time.
Contents
1. Six-hourly surface synoptic data from RBSNs, e.g. data
in SYNOP, BUFR or other general purpose WMO Code;
2. All available in situ observations from the marine envi-
ronment, e.g. data in SHIP, BUOY, BATHY, TESAC
codes, etc.
3. All available aircraft reports, e.g. data in AMDAR,
AIREP codes, etc.
4. All available data from upper air sounding networks,
e.g. data in TEMP, PILOT, TEMP SHIP, PILOT SHIP
codes etc.
5. All reports from the network of stations recommended
by the regional associations as necessary to provide a
good representation of climate, e.g. data in
CLIMAT/CLIMAT TEMP and CLIMAT SHIP/CLIMAT
TEMP SHIP codes, etc.
6. Products distributed by WMCs and RSMCs to meet
their WMO obligations
7. Severe weather warnings and advisories for the protec-
tion of life and property targeted upon end-users;
8. Those data and products from operational meteoro-
logical satellites that are agreed between WMO and
satellite operators. (These should include data and
products necessary for operations regarding severe
weather warnings and tropical cyclone warnings).
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UIDELINES FOR RELATIONS AMONG
NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL OR
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL SERVICES
(NMHS)
REGARDING COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
Purpose
The purpose of these guidelines is to maintain and
strengthen in the public interest the cooperative and
supportive relations among NMSs in the face of differing
national approaches to the growth of commercial meteo-
rological activities.
Guidelines
In order to ensure the maintenance of the international
exchange of data and products among WMO Members,
and to develop the applications of meteorology, while
adapting to the new challenge from the growth of commer-
cial meteorological activities:
1. NMSs should provide the first point of receipt within
a country for WWW data and products, in order to