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Notification from Kenya (see METNO A0203):
Changes in radiosonde instruments and observation procedures:
Stations:  63612, 63624, 63661, 63695, 63708, 63714, 63737, 63766, 63793, 63799, 63820
(P) Pilot Observations.
Station: 63723 Radiowind and radiosonde observations (RW) suspended due to lack of balloons.

Add the following new station:
63688 ELDORET INTERNATIONAL 00 24N 35 14E HP2104 H/HA2104 X X X X X X X X . . . .

Notification from Mozambique: Change in position (see METNO A0203): 67231 CUAMBA 14 80S 36 53E HP607

Notification from China (see METNO A0303)
delete 57602 LUZHOU
Add the following new station:
57604 NAXI 28 47N 105 23E HP364 . X X X X X . X X . . . .
52112 NAOMAOHU 43 46N 95 08E HP469 . X X X X X . X X . . . .

Change in index numbers: 57503 NEIJIANG

Change in position:
56196 MIANYANG 31 27N 104 44E
57816 GUIYANG 26 35N 106 44E
53863 JIEXIU 37 02N 111 55E
53959 YUNCHENG 35 03N 111 03E
53705 ZHONGNING 37 29N 105 41E
56748 BAOSHAN 25 07N 99 11E
57503 NEIJIANG 29 37N 105 07E
57071 MENGJIN 34 49N 112 26E
57348 FENGJIE 31 01N 109 32E
56768 CHUXIONG 25 01N 101 31E
50727 ARXAN 47 10N 119 56E
53723 YANCHI 37 48N 107 23E
54808 XINXIAN 36 14N 115 40E

Notification from Iran, Islamic Republic of: Change in position (see METNO A0203):
40739 SHAHRUD 36 25N 54 57E
40754 TEHRAN-MEHRABAD 35 41N 51 19E
40882 KISH ISLAND 26 30N 53 59E
40829 ZABOL 31 03N 61 29E
40740 GHUCHAN 37 04N 58 30E
40782 KHORRAM-ABAD 33 29N 48 22E
40800 ESFAHAN 32 28N 51 40E
40836 YASOGE 30 40N 51 35E
40898 CHAHBAHAR 25 17N 60 37E
40780 ILAM 33 38N 46 26E
40821 YAZD 31 54N 54 17E
40848 SHIRAZ 29 32N 52 32E

Notification from Peru (see METNO A0203):
Add the following new station:
84378 MORONA    03 44S  73 15W  HP117   . . . . . . . . . . . RW .
84416 PIURA GRUP7   05 11S  80 36W  HP52    . . . . . . . . .   . . RW .

Notification from New Zealand: delete 93896 TAIAROA HEAD (see METNO A0303)

Notification from Bosnia and Herzegovinna (see METNO A0203):
Add the following new station: 14543 JAJCE    44 21N   17 16E   HP431  H/HA428   . . X X X . . . . . . .
Change in index numbers (see METNO A0203): 14654 SARAJEVO-BJELAVE

Changes in observing programmes (see METNO A0303):
14528 BIHAC . . X X X X . .
14537 SANSKI MOST . . X X X X . .
14542 BANJA LUKA X X X X X X X X
14544 BUGOJNO . . X X X X . .
14554 GRADACAC . . X X X X . .
14557 TUZLA . . X X X X X X
14640 LIVNO . . X X X X . .
14650 IVAN SEDLO . . X X X X . .

Notification from Norway
Delete Norwegian synop station 01035 Oteren SM/SINO44 (03,06,12,18)  (see METNO A0303)
Delete: 01155 Bo i Vesteralen II  (SM/SINO44) / 06250 TERSCHELLING / 06268 HOUTRIB (see METNO A0203)
Add: 01156 Bo i Vesteralen (SM/SINO97 ENMI)
Add the following new station: 01156 BO I VESTERALEN 68 36N 14 26E HP8 H/HA8 X X X X X X X X . . . .
Changes in observing programmes: 01026 TROMSO X X X X X X X X (SMNO01/SINO21)

Notification from Spain to add the following new station (see METNO A0203):
08302 MALLORCA-SON BONET  39 36N  02 42E  HP41  H/HA41 . . . . . . . .    RW . RW .

Notification from Sweden: Change in index numbers (see METNO A0203):
02226 OSTERSUND FROSON
02366 TIMRA-MIDLANDA
02365 TIMRA-MIDLANDA (upper-air)

Notification from RTH New Delhi, India:
Add the following new bulletin to New Delhi, India: see METNO MC0203.txt effective 27 November 2002.

Notification from MTN Offenbach, Germany:
Make the following amendments to:
Helsinki, Finland (see METNO MC0203.txt)
Oslo, Norway (see METNO MC0203.txt)
Norrkoping, Sweden (see METNO MC0203.txt)
Offenbach, Germany (see METNO MC5102)

The analysis made by the Secretariat of the annual global monitoring of the WWW carried out in October 2002   is available under  http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/ois/monitor/agm/agm.htm

Notification from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts concerning the update to lists of radiosonde stations used in the standardized verification of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) for 2003.