Helping WIGOS Succeed Address relevant items of WIGOS Ongoing Co-ordination Lead: Pre-Operational Phase Activities Chairperson ET-SBO Agreed ToR: Contribute to the assigned to ET-SBO, details to be for overall delivery implementation of WIGOS by forthcoming during work plan with lead and 1. undertaking those tasks assigned to it period, see individual task sheets for contributors for each by the OPAG-IOS Chairperson as part more detail. task identified of the WIGOS pre-operational phase priority activities. Detailed tasks TBD Task Lead: TBD 1.1 Task Contributors: Notes: ToR Changes made by CBS-MG TBD and supported by ET. Activities will support the 5 priority areas for WIGOS defined by Congress. Improving Technical Documents Review and update the technical In time for Task Lead: TBD regulations and associated guidance WIGOS Task Contributors: ToR: Develop and update material. Priority technologies to be approvals TBD relevant elements of the WIGOS defined early in new intersessional mechanism 2. Regulatory and Guidance materials, period but will definitely include including the Manual and the Guide to Radiosonde and will likely include the GOS lightning detection systems & GNSS and incorporating WIGOS data quality monitoring system systems. recommendations. Update the Radiosonde regulatory Task Lead: TBD 30 working days to material currently recorded in the material Task Contributors: be assigned to this Notes: Changes proposed to ToR to Manual on the GOS WMO No.544 generated TBD task. remove specific reference to 2.1 and Guide to the GOS WMO No. 488 2017 and technologies in the ToR. passed to WIGOS EB in 2018 tasks to be identified TBD TBD Likely to include a Task Lead: review of lightning Task Contributors: detection systems 2.2 TBD and GNSS measurement systems
1. Helping WIGOS Succeed Agreed ToR: Contribute to the implementation of WIGOS by undertaking those tasks assigned to it by the OPAG-IOS Chairperson as part of the WIGOS pre-operational phase priority activities. Notes: ToR Changes made by CBS-MG and supported by ET. Activities will support the 5 priority areas for WIGOS defined by Congress. Address relevant items of WIGOS Pre-Operational Phase Activities assigned to ET-SBO, details to be forthcoming during work plan period, see individual task sheets for more detail. Ongoing Co-ordination Lead: Chairperson ET-SBO for overall delivery with lead and contributors for each task identified 1.1 Detailed tasks TBD Task Lead: TBD Task Contributors: TBD 2. Improving Technical Documents ToR: Develop and update relevant elements of the WIGOS Regulatory and Guidance materials, including the Manual and the Guide to the GOS and incorporating WIGOS data quality monitoring system recommendations. Notes: Changes proposed to ToR to remove specific reference to technologies in the ToR. Review and update the technical regulations and associated guidance material. Priority technologies to be defined early in new intersessional period but will definitely include Radiosonde and will likely include lightning detection systems & GNSS systems. In time for WIGOS approvals mechanism Task Lead: TBD Task Contributors: TBD 2.1 Update the Radiosonde regulatory material currently recorded in the Manual on the GOS WMO No.544 and Guide to the GOS WMO No. 488 material generated 2017 and passed to WIGOS EB in 2018 Task Lead: TBD Task Contributors: TBD 30 working days to be assigned to this task. 2.2 tasks to be identified TBD Task Lead: TBD Task Contributors: TBD Likely to include a review of lightning detection systems and GNSS measurement systems