Preliminary 2024 Edition of the Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8)
The Preliminary 2024 edition of the Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8) (Volumes I, II, and III) is now available for consideration by Members.
Collaborative work of different expert teams and groups, together with the Editorial Board of the INFCOM/Standing Committee on Measurements, Instrumentation and Traceability resulted in the preliminary 2024 edition that is now available for the Members’ review.
The preliminary 2024 edition of WMO-No. 8 includes updates of Chapters 6 and 7 of Volume I, Chapter 1 of Volume II, Chapter 5 of Volume III, and new Chapter 4 of Volume II.
You are invited to examine the chapters available from the table below and send your detailed comments or suggestions to the WMO Secretariat, to the attention of Mr Ercan Buyukbas at: ebuyukbas@wmo.int, preferably through the Permanent Representative of your country with WMO. Please submit your comments at your earliest convenience, but not later than 22 March 2024, by using the template accessible here. Your valuable feedback will be considered for the development of the Provisional 2024 edition that will be submitted to the upcoming third session of the Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM-3) for approval.
Note 1: Each chapter proposed to be updated is available in two versions. The "track-change" (...tc) version shows all the changes made to the 2021 edition (updated in 2023), visible in track-change mode. In the "clean" (...clean) version file all those changes have already been accepted. The new chapter (i.e. Chapter 4 of Volume II) is available only in "clean" version. An overview of the size of the proposed updates is available here.
Note 2: The missing figures and tables in this preliminary edition will remain the same as they are in the 2021 edition (updated in 2023) and will be inserted before publication. To check them, please visit the most recent version of the WMO-No. 8, reachable here. Also, the formatting of the documents will be finalized at the time of publication of the new edition.
Note 3: For the chapters not listed below, changes have not been proposed and the chapters will remain the same as in 2021 edition (updated in 2023).
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TRACK-CHANGE V. |
CLEAN V. |
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VOLUME I |
MEASUREMENT OF METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES |
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6 |
Measurement of Precipitation |
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7 |
Measurement of Radiation |
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VOLUME II |
MEASUREMENT OF CRYOSPHERIC VARIABLES |
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1 |
General |
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4 |
Measurement of Permafrost |
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VOLUME III |
OBSERVING SYSTEMS |
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5 |
Special Profiling Techniques for the Boundary Layer and the Troposphere |