WIS Candidate Centres

The following links are to static lists of current GISCs, DCPCs and NCs as identified either by the ICG-WIS or ET-GDDP

• Link to GISCs


• Link to DCPCs


• Link to NCs

Official list of centres is at http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/centres/index_en.php. This will be updated at some stage to reflect the additional information in the above links, in particular the associated Technical Commission, the NCs and the principal GISC for each centre.

List of Abbreviations used in Tables 1, 2 and 3

ADC	Arctic or Antarctic Data Centre
ADC-IPY	Archive Centre for International Polar Year data
AGRHYMET	Centre for Agriculture, Hydrology and Meteorology
CAS	Commission for Atmospheric Sciences
CAeM	Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology
CAgM	Commission for Agricultural Meteorology
CBS	Commission for Basic Systems
CCl	Commission for Climatology
CGMS	Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
CIMO	Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observations
CHy	Commission for Hydrology
COMS	Satellite Distribution Centre
DCC-OCF	Data Collection Centre for Official City Forecasts
DCPC	Data Collection or Production Centre
EC-PET	EC-Panel of Experts on Education & Training
ET-GDDP	Ad hoc Expert Team on GISC and DCPC Demonstration Process
GCC	Global Collecting Centre (ship observations)
GCOS	Global Climate Observing System
GDC	Global Data Centre
GEWEX	Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GISC	Global Information System Centre
GOSIC	Global Observing Systems Information Centre
GPC	Global Production Producing Centre
GPC/LRF	GPC Long-Range Forecasting Forecasts
GPC/LC-LRFMME	GPC/Lead Centre for LRF Multi-Model Ensemble
GPCC	Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
GRDC	Global Runoff Data Centre
GRUAN-LC	Lead Centre for GCOS Reference Upper Air Nework.
ICG-WIS	Inter-commission Coordination Group on WIS
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPS	Ionospheric Prediction Service (Space Weather)
JCOMM	Joint WMO-IOC Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
NCC	National Climate Centre
NC	National Centre
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NESDIS	National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NGDC	National Geophysical Data Center
NILU	Norwegian Institute for Air Research
NMC	National Meteorological Centre
NMSC	National Meteorological Satellite Center
NODC	National Ocean Data Centre
NWP	Numerical Weather Prediction
ODC	Ocean Data Centre
PWS	Public Weather Services
RCC	Regional Climate Centre
RIC	Regional Instrument Centre
RDMEC	Regional Drought Monitoring Centre
RNODC	Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centre
ROC	Regional Ozone Centre
RRC	Regional Radiation Centre
RSMC	Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
RSMC-Geographical/DPFS	RSMC Data Production and Forecast System with Geographical Specialization
RSMC-Activity-ATM/EER	RSMC Environment Emergency Response with Activity Specialization on Atmospheric Transport Modelling
RSMC/-Activity-TC	RSMC with Activity Specialization on Tropical Cyclones
RSMC/NWP-Activity-Medium-Range-Forecasting	RSMC Numerical Weather Prediction with Activity Specialization on Medium-Range Forecasting
RTC	Regional Training Centre
RTH	Regional Telecommunication Hub
TWS	Tsunami Warning Service
VAAC	Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre
WAFC	World Aviation Forecast Centre
WAMIS	World Agrometeorological Information Service
WCRP	World Climate Research Programme
WDC	World Data Center
WDC-GHG	WDC for Green House Gasses
WDC-RSAT	WDC for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
WDC-ICE	WDC for Ice (Global Cryosphere Watch)
WDCC	WDC for Climate
WE-VGISC	Western European Virtual GISC (DWD, MET Office, Météo-France)
WRMC	World Radiation Monitoring Centre
WMC	World Meteorological Centre
WWIS	World Weather Information Service
WWW	World Weather Watch