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2004 WWW
Technical Progress Report on the
Global Data Processing System
GDPS Technical Progress Report
Series No. 14
WMO/TD-No. 1284
Introduction
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Please note that
in accordance with CBS-Ext.(02) paragraph 10.1.6 of the general summary, the WWW Technical
Progress Reports on the GDPS are no longer printed on paper, instead a CD-ROM is
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INTRODUCTION
The forty-third
session of the Executive Council (1991) endorsed the decision of the extraordinary session
of the Commission for Basic Systems (1990) that information on the operational status of
the Global Data-processing System (GDPS), which had earlier been published partly in the
CAS Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) annual progress report and partly in WMO Public No.
9, Volume B, and in the Guide on GDPS should be combined, enhance and published annually
as a separate WWW Technical Progress Report on the GDPS. This publication is in response
to this decision and subsequent CBS updates, and will no doubt be of considerable value to
all Meteorological Services, including those of developing countries who are commencing
work in the operational use of NWP and are in the process of equipping their centres with
computer facilities.
The annual
publication will serve as a means of updating the rapidly evolving facilities and services
being implemented at GDPS Centres as requirements and technology advance. It will provide
to operational experts up-to-date information on the status of implementation of
operational equipment and related facilities including analysis-forecast systems at the
GDPS Centres.
All WMO members
are urged to submit annual national contributions to the Secretariat on the operational
status of the GDPS of their NMCs for the previous year, at the beginning of each year.
Combined reports will be distributed in the form of this publication.
Several Member
Countries/Centres who have contributed to this report also participate in forecast
verification of NWP products and they exchange among themselves, on a monthly basis, the
results of such verification. The standard GDPS NWP verification procedures used are as
specified in the Manual on the Global Data-processing System. To facilitate dissemination
of this information worldwide, the annual verification results, where applicable, are
included in the individual national contributions in the present progress report.
Web Editor Sary Vargas,
23 April 2004
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