
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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Collecting, exchanging, processing and providing climate and hydrological observations, forecasts and data exchange to all WMO programmes.
Coordinating the activities of Members related to the space-based observing system component of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System to ensure sustained and interoperable satellite observations and to promote their...
Offering operationally reliable, surface-based and space-based subsystems with observing facilities on land, at sea, in the air and in outer space in support of the World Weather Watch...
The GDPFS is an international mechanism that coordinates Member capacities to prepare and make meteorological analyses and forecast products available to all Members. It enables delivery of harmonized...
Coordinating the global system of telecommunication facilities and arrangements for the rapid collection, exchange and distribution of observations and processed information within the framework of the World Weather...
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.