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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION REGIONAL ASSOCIATION V (SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC) TWELFTH SESSION DENPASAR, 14-22 SEPTEMBER 1998 ABRIDGED FINAL REPORT WITH RESOLUTIONS WMO-No.890 Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization - Geneva - Switzerland 1998 © 1999, World-Meteorologicid Organization . NOTE The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. CONTENTS Page GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE WORK OF THE SESSION 1. OPENING OF THE SESSION ............................................................................................................................. 1 2. ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION.................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Consideration of the report on credentials.... .................... ................ .................... ..... ............ ................... 2 2.2 Adoption of the agenda.............................................................................................................................. 2 2.3 Establishment of committees .......... ....... ........ ....... ....... ............... ....... ....... .......... ....... ............... ......... ........ 2 2.4 Other organizational matters..................................................................................................................... 2 3. REpORT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION .......... ...................... ........ ......... ....................................... 3 4. WORLD WEATHER WATCH (WWW) PROGRAMME - REGIONAL ASPECTS................................................... 3 4.1 World Weather Watch (WWW) planning and implementation, induding the report of the chairman of the Working Group on Planning and Implementation of the World Weathr Watch (WWW) in Region V...................................................................................................................................................... 3 4.2 Observing system, induding the Instruments and Methods of Observation Programme (IMOP) ........... 4 4.3 Telecommunication system .... ..... ........... ...... ....... ...... ..... ......... .......................... ......... .... ...................... ...... 7 4.4 Data-processing system............................................................................................................................... 9 4.5 Data management, induding matters related to codes ............................................................................. 10 4.6 World Weather Watch (WWW) system support activities and Operational Information System (01S)... 10 4.7 WMO satellite activities.............................................................................................................................. 11 4.8 Tropical Cydone Programme (TCP) ................................................................................................. -.......... 12 5. WORLD CLIMATE PROGRAMME (WCP) - REGIONAL ASPECTS..................................................................... 13 5.1 World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme (WCDMP).................................................................... 13 5.2 World Climate Applications and Services Programme (WCASP), induding Climate Information and Prediction Services (CLIPS) ....... ....... ................ ................. ........... ................ ......... ...... ...................... ..... ..... 14 5.3 World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Programme (WCIRP)................................... 16 5.4 World Climate Programme (WCP) coordination and support activities ................................................... 16 5.5 World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) ............................................................................................ 17 5.6 Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) ................................................................................................ 17 6. ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME (AREP) - REGIONAL ASPECTS ............ ...... ...... 18 6.1 Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW).............................................................................................................. 18 6.2 Weather Prediction Research Programme .... ........................... ................. .................. ....... ......................... 19 6.3 Tropical Meteorology Research Programme ............ ....... ............... ....... ....... ........ ....... ............... ............ ..... 19 6.4 Programme on Physics and Chemistry of Clouds and Weather Modification Research........................... 20 7. ApPLICATIONS OF METEOROLOGY PROGRAMME (AMP) - REGIONAL ASPECTS............................................. 20 7.1 Public Weather Service (PWS) Programme... ......... ....... ................. ....... ............... ....... ......... ............... ........ 20 7.2 Agricultural Meteorology Programme ........................................................................................................ 21 7.3 Aeronautical Meteorology Programme....................................................................................................... 22 7.4 Marine Meteorology and Associated Oceanographic Activities Programme ............. ........................ ........ 22 8. HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES PROGRAMME (HWRP) - REGIONAL ASPECTS.. .......................... ...... 24 9. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMME (ETRP) - REGIONAL ASPECTS..................................................... 27 10. TECHNICAL COOPERATION (TCO) PROGRAMME - REGIONAL ASPECTS ........................................................ 28 11. INFORMATION AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS (IPA) PROGRAMME - REGIONAL ASPECTS.. ...................... ................... 30 12. LONG-TERM PLANNING - REGIONAL ASPECTS................................................................................................. 31 IV ABRIDGED FINAL REPORT OF THE TWELFTH SESSION OF REGIONAL ASSOCIATION V 13. OTHER REGIONAL ACTIVITIES .............................. :........................................................................................ 32 13.1 Follow-up activities related to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) .............................................................................................................................. 32 13.2 International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) ................................................................. 33 13.3 International data exchange....................................................................................................................... 34 13.4 Role and operation of national Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) ............................... 34 13.5 Second Technical Conference on the Management of Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Regional Association V (South-West Pacific).............................................................................................. 35 14. WMO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR ASIA AND THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC .................................................. "....... 36 IS. SCIENTIFIC LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS ........................................................................................................ 36 16. REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESOLUTIONS AND· RECOMMENDATioNS OF THE ASSOCIATION AND OF RELEVANT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS ............................................................................................................... 36 17~ .ELECTION OF OFFICERS.................................................................................................................................. 37 18'. DATE AND PLACE OF THE TmRTEENTH SESSION .............................................................................. :............. 37 19. CLOSURE OF THE SESSION' ............................................................................................................................. 37 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE SESSION Final Session No. No. 1 4.1/1 Working Group on Planning and Implementation of the World Weather Watch (WWW) in Region V .................................................................................................................................... 38 2 4.2/1 Regional Basic Synoptic Network ... "............................................................................................. 40 3 4.2/2 Rapporteur on Regional Aspects of Instrument Development, Related Training and Capacity Building .......................................................................................................................... 47 4 4.2/3 Regional·Instrument Centres (RICs).............................................................................................. 47 5 4.3/1 Amendments to the Manual on the Global Telecommunication System (WMO-No. 386), Volume II, Regional Aspects, Region V (South-West Pacific)........................................................ 48 6 4.8/1 Regional Association V Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and South-East Indian Ocean .......................................................... :........................................................................ 49 7 5.4/1 Climate Change in the South-West Pacific ..................................................................................