1. Agenda Item 3.4
Manual on WIS

2. Manual and Guide on WIS Doc 3.4(1) – WIS Centres
Confirm Terms of Reference for focal points
Focal points have a formal role to play in the fast track approvals procedure and therefore must have authority delegated by PR
Updates to Manual on WIS
Update list of DCPCs
Amend NMC details
changes to the names and associations of NMCs in Aruba(Netherlands)
Change the principal GISC of centres in Algeria to Toulouse.
Main issues addressed by the documents on the Manual and Guide to the WMO Information System.
Document 3.4(1) – WIS centres
Confirm the roles of focal points on matters related to WIS
In addition to acting as the point of contact between the secretariat and the technical teams supporting the WIS, WIS related focal points have a formal role to plan in the fast track approvals procedure. They need the authority of the PR to do this, and the Terms of Reference allow PRs to delegate this authority in a clear manner.
Updates to the Manual on WIS related to WIS centres
Update the list of Data Collection or Production Centres
changes to the names and associations of NMCs in Aruba(Netherlands)
Change the principal GISC of centres in Algeria to Toulouse.
Document 3.4(2) – WIS metadata
Clarify the sections of the Manual to which the fast track procedures apply
Make the use of the data policy designators clear so that people know to use them for GFCS data (Resolution 60 (Cg-18)) and ICAO data.
Introduce guidance on the creation of WIS metadata into the Guide to WIS – with supplementary (and more technical) information available through the WMO website.
Document 3.4(3) – DBNet Guide
On behalf of the satellite programme
Guidance on how to use the Direct Broadcast Network.

3. WIS centres - confirm Confirm centres United States of America
WMO Member or Contributing Organization
Name
Centre location region/city
Principal GISC
Const. Body
United States of America
Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC)
RA IV
Asheville, NC
Washington
CCl
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Washington DC
CBS
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Boulder, CO
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) & National Geographic Data Center (NGDC) Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
JCOMM/CBS
Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
WAFC
CAeM
Designation of WIS centres
Confirm designation of centres that had been conditionally designated by Resolution 51 (Cg-17) because they have now met the technical requirements.
Note: technical compliance of USA centres had not been completed by 1 November.

4. WIS centres Confirm centres New centres India Netherlands Norway
WMO Member or Contributing Organization
Name
Centre location region/city
Principal GISC
Const. Body
India
RSMC-Activity-TC II
New Delhi
CBS
Netherlands
RCC–De Bilt
RA VI
De Bilt
Exeter
CCl
Satellite Centre
Norway
Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
Kjeller
Offenbach
CAS
Sweden
BALTRAD (Weather radar network for the Baltic Sea Region)
Norrköping
New centres
WMO Member or Contributing Organization
Name / Function
Centre location
region/city
Principal GISC
Const. Body
Argentina
VAAC
III
Buenos Aires
Brasilia
CAeM
RTH
CBS
RSMC-Geographical
Designation of WIS centres
Confirm designation of centres that had been conditionally designated by Resolution 51 (Cg-17) because they have now met the technical requirements.
Note: technical compliance of USA centres had not been completed by 1 November.
Netherlands satellite data centre not yet ready for operations.
Sweden project supported by the BALTRAD centre has come to an end

5. Other centre notifications
France has indicated its intention to designate a centre in support of the European Copernicus activities
Tunisia has notified the WIS Centres Committee that it wishes to retain Casablanca as its principal GISC, but Tunisia has not yet written formally to the Secretary General to confirm this.

6. Conditional designation
EC-68 decided that conditional designation of centres would cease at the end of CB-16
Several conditionally designated centres undergoing assessment
WIS centres committee recommended that the document is updated to request extension of conditional designation

7. Manual and Guide on WIS Doc 3.4(2) – WIS metadata
Clarify fast track procedure in the Manual on WIS
Data policy description for GFCS data (Resolution 60 (Cg-18)) and ICAO data
Guidance on the creation of WIS metadata into the Guide to WIS
Supplementary and technical information available through the WMO website
Doc 3.4(3) – DBNet Guide
On behalf of Satellite Programme
Guidance on how to use the Direct Broadcast Network
Attachment to Guide to WIS
Main issues addressed by the documents on the Manual and Guide to the WMO Information System.
Document 3.4(1) – WIS centres
Confirm the roles of focal points on matters related to WIS
In addition to acting as the point of contact between the secretariat and the technical teams supporting the WIS, WIS related focal points have a formal role to plan in the fast track approvals procedure. They need the authority of the PR to do this, and the Terms of Reference allow PRs to delegate this authority in a clear manner.
Updates to the Manual on WIS related to WIS centres
Update the list of Data Collection or Production Centres
changes to the names and associations of NMCs in Aruba(Netherlands)
Change the principal GISC of centres in Algeria to Toulouse.
Document 3.4(2) – WIS metadata
Clarify the sections of the Manual to which the fast track procedures apply
Make the use of the data policy designators clear so that people know to use them for GFCS data (Resolution 60 (Cg-18)) and ICAO data.
Introduce guidance on the creation of WIS metadata into the Guide to WIS – with supplementary (and more technical) information available through the WMO website.
Document 3.4(3) – DBNet Guide
On behalf of the satellite programme
Guidance on how to use the Direct Broadcast Network.

8. Thank you
Merci