Commission for Basic Systems (CBS)

Commission for Basic Systems (CBS)

The Commissions for Basic Systems, for Instruments and Methods of Observations and the Global Climate Observing System transitioned into the new Commission for Observation, Infrastructures and Information Systems (Infrastructure Commission) following adoption of the WMO Governance Reform package by the Eighteenth Meteorological Congress in June 2019.

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Infrastructure Commission

The Infrastructure Commission contributes to the development and implementation of globally coordinated systems for acquiring, processing, transmitting and disseminating Earth system observations, and related standards; coordination of the production and use of standardized analysis and model forecast fields; and development and implementation of sound data and information management practices for all WMO Programmes and their associated application and services areas.