World Meteorological Organization

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Partners

WIS will be a common infrastructure serving all WMO programmes in a cost-effective and satisfactory manner. All of these systems will utilize the WMO Information System (WIS) as the main data collection and exchange system.  Requirements are summarised in sixteen areas: CAS, IPY, CHy, JCOMM, CAeM, TCP, PWS, DRR, CIMO, CCI, CAgM, WCRP, GCOS, GEO, ETR and SAT.

Figure 1 - WIS serving the WMO community

WIS Partners:

Global Atmosphere Watch Station Information Systems (GAWSIS) The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) International Polar Year (IPY) The Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) The Global Ocean Observing System  (GOOS) International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS) WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) Global Earth Observation (GEO) World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme (WCDMP) World AgroMeteorological Information Service (WAMIS) Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Integrated Global Data Dissemination Service (IGDDS) Education and Training Programme (ETRP) Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

Potential WIS users

WMO programmes who will benefit from the services offered by WIS for the implementation of their data exchange tasks. NMHS’s who will be able to interactively alter their operational data provisions Individual users, either a person or an institution, who will be the main beneficiary of WIS, because WIS will provide a single entry point for any data request, be it on a routine basis by dissemination of certain user defined information sets or on an ad-hoc basis for a special data set.. GEOSS because WIS could also form the base for its information systems UN Gateway to Climate Change United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): Global Resource Information Database (GRID) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data