2015-05-20

Draft of revised WMO GDPFS Manual on review; comments by end of July

WMO is working on revising the Manual on GDPFS.  This is whole overhaul from scratch.  Now the Secretariat made the latest draft available online.  It accepts comments from the member states by the end of July.

When the DPFS (Data Processing and Forecasting System) was created, the RSMC (Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre) and WMC (World Meteorological Centre) were both supposed to work on human-plotted weather charts.  Now NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction) has overtaken most of the subjective analysis and forecast, so the centres (RSMC and WMC) are redefined to serve NWP products.

So I'm keen on the fate of present Attachment II-4 for graphical symbols of weather chart, including weather symbols (see my previous post).  It won't be removed, but will be moved to the Manual on Codes.

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