NEW: Provisional 2024 Edition of the Guide to Instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No.8)
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 of the Guide to instruments and Methods of Observation (WMO-No. 8) (Volumes I, II, and III) that was available for the Members’ review.
During the Members’ review process, comments have been received for Volume I, Chapter 6, Volume I, Chapter 7 and Volume III, Chapter 5 from: China, Germany, Guinea, Hong Kong, China, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, UK, and a few HMEI Members. The comments have been reviewed by the INFCOM/SC-MINT/Editorial Board and relevant expert teams. Those simple or editorial comments have already been addressed and incorporated in the text of the provisional edition and are displayed in track-change mode, highlighted yellow. More complex comments have been well noted and will be addressed by the relevant expert teams in the next intersessional period. The table showing the comments and review remarks is available here.
The text of the Provisional 2024 Edition is accessible in the table below. It is submitted to the third session of the Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM-3) for approval.
Note: 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. |
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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 |