 RETIREMENT
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The
Secretariat would like to take this opportunity of thanking Mr.
Piet Y. de Vries, KNMI (Netherlands), for his kind cooperation and
assistance during his years with KNMI and would like to wish him
all the best in his retirement. Piet has been with KNMI
since June 1965 and retires on 1 June 2005. He has spent 25
years sailing on the Dutch weather ships Cirrus and Cumulus and 15
years working for the meteorological service in data management
and meteorological codes.
His
successor will be Mr. Peter C. M. van Uden who will also be
the Dutch Focal Point on code matters for the WMO, as from the
first of June 2005.
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No. 9 - Weather Reporting: Volume A - Observing stations |
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Notification
from Portugal [see
METNO A1305]
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According
to the Management of the Azores sounding station
LAJES/SANTA RITA - 08508, the 00UTC upper-air observations were
suspended due to lack of personnel between 22 March-06 April 2005.
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Notification
from Switzerland [see
METNO A1505]
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METEOSWISS
commenced sending SYNOP messages to the GTS with a new
software. This software is intended to be compliant with th
elatest version of WMO 306. This implied several changes
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