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Issues per
year World Weather Watch Automatic Marine Stations National Programmes: European Group on Ocean Stations
Changes in the
Observing Network
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Dear Reader, In 1982 the Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) requested that a Newsletter be produced to provide World Weather Watch Centres with the latest operational information. In December 2001 (Sydney) the CBS Management Group agreed that the Newsletter should be distributed via electronic mail. For the future we envisage disseminating the electronic newsletter at irregular intervals (i.e. as and when information is made available to us), thus providing operational centres with the most recent and relevant information.This Newsletter is disseminated free of charge by the World Meteorological Organization Secretariat. Its objective is to provide World Weather Watch (WWW) Centres with urgent notifications and a summary of the latest operational information on the World Weather Watch and Marine Meteorological Services, in particular on:
The Newsletter is currently being distributed monthly. Contact
information The WMO Secretariat would like to express its appreciation to all those who have contributed material to the "Operational Newsletter". Notification from Australia End of Australian summer time 2002/2003. 1. Australian summer time ceased in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania at 1600 UTC 29 March 2003, and in South Australia at 1630 UTC 29 March 2003 2. Regional Basic Synoptic Network stations will continue to transmit SYNOP at the standard WMO hours 3. Other stations in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania reverted to their normal surface observations program at 1600 UTC on 29 March 2003, and from 1630 UTC 29 March 2003 in South Australia 4. Australian summer time was not implemented in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. No changes will be made to the time of surface observations in these regions. 5. Upper air observations in all states and territories will continue their current program of release at the nominal times of 0000, 0600, 1200 and 1800 UTC. The analysis made by the Secretariat of the special monitoring of the exchange of Antarctic data carried out from 1 to 15 January 2003 is available under http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/ois/monitor/sam/sam.htm
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