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 The
Global Observing System
 Changes in the Regional Basic Network
Regional Basic
Synoptic Network (RBSN):
The President of
Regional Association II has approved the amendment to the
Russian segment of the RBSN:
| Index |
Station
Name |
Remarks |
| 30253 |
BODAJBO |
S (Delete) |
| 30252 |
MAMAKAN |
S (Add) |
Regional
Basic Climatological Network (RBCN)
Subject to
approval from the President of Regional Association V,
the Australian Bureau of Meteorology is planning on carrying out
the following amendments to the Australian segment of the RBCN:
| Index |
Station
Name |
Remarks |
| 94101 |
Kalumburu
Mission |
C
(Delete) |
| 94100 |
Kalumburu |
C (Add) |
| 94482 |
Birdsville
Police Station |
C (Delete) |
| 95482 |
Birdsville
Airport |
C (Add) |
| 94492 |
Thargomindah
Post Office |
C (Delete) |
| 95492 |
Thargomindah
Airport |
C (Add) |
| 94784 |
Taree (Radio
station 2RE) |
C (Delete) |
| 95784 |
Taree
Airport AWS |
C (Add) |
| 95529 |
Miles
Constance Street |
C (New) |
Publication No. 9 - Weather Reporting:
Volume A - Observing stations
 Feedback
Form for Volume A
Explanatory Note for
Feedback Form
METNOs issued for 2006:
[1306] [1406] [1506] [1606]
Notification from Egypt
Effective 15 April - 30 September 2006,
upper-air stations 62378, 62423 and 62402 will perform radiosonde
observations at 1200 UTC and stations 62306, 62414 and 62337 will
perform observations at 0000 UTC.
The
Global telecommunication System
Publication
No. 9 - Weather Reporting:
Volume C1 - Catalogue of Meteorological Bulletins
Advanced Notifications
received from RTHs are included in the weekly METNOs each Tuesday.
They can also be retrieved from the WMO Server.
Notification from RTH Montreal
[see
METNO 1406] and [see
METNO 1706]
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Developing
XML Metadata templates
As requested by CBS XIII (1), the Secretariat is pleased to inform you
that Volume C1 - Catalogue of Meteorological Bulletins, is now
available as an .XML file and .XSD file on our web
page. If you wish
to to import the data file, you should download both the .xml
and the .xsd file.
During this test phase, we look forward to receiving your comments
and/or suggestions.
(1)
CBX XIII held in St. Petersburg (23 Feb-3 Mar 2005) encouraged
the Secretariat, in 5.5.11, to simplify "the procedures for updating the
contents of the OIS. .... In addition, the usefulness of the
OIS would be greatly increased by making the information available
in a more universal form, such as XML, for direct use by automated
centres."
Meteorological bulletin comparisons
The bulletin comparisons for January 2006
are now available on our web
page.
These comparisons have been made using
the following data sets: RTH routeing catalogues, Volume
C1 and the Special MTN Monitoring results.
Marine Meteorological Services
Publication No. 9 - Weather Reporting:
Volume D - Information for Shipping
The Secretariat would like to remind you
that to maintain and improve the accuracy of information
contained in this publication, it is essential that the
data be updated as frequently as changes occur.
To facilitate this process data for
Volume D is now available on-line
and can be updated using the Excel files.
Automatic Marine Stations
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