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20010815: Correction--Re: 20010608: Effects of WMO Resolution 40 (fwd)

Hello Karl,
I mistated a portion of the previous email to you. please disregard the sentence, "These data are not supposed to be resent to the country of origin." I'm so sorry for my misleading statement.
In fact, I decided to provide, verbatim, the information rgarding the "additional data" use and exchange.
excerpted from: <http://www.wmo.ch/web/ddbs/jen/AdditionalData&Products/index.html>
According to the practice adopted by Congress, all meteorological and related data and products required to fulfil Members? obligations under WMO Programmes should be encompassed by the combination of essential and additional data and products exchanged by Members. Members are urged to make known to all Members, through the WMO Secretariat, those additional meteorological and related data and products on which Members placed conditions related to their re-export for commercial purposes outside the receiving country (or group of countries forming a single economic group). Congress believed that, as a result of the implementation of the practice by all Members, the volume of data and products exchanged internationally will increase. 

Thanks again for your interest.

Linda

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Date: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:42 AM -0600
From: Linda Miller <address@hidden>
To: karl <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20010608: Effects of WMO Resolution 40

Hello Karl,

The World Meteorological Organization consists of 185 members (see this site
for additional information about the WMO <http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html>).
The WMO works to "coordinate global scientific activity to allow increasingly
prompt and accurate weather information and other services for public, private
and commercial use, including international airline and shipping industries.
WMO's activities contribute to the safety of life and property, the
socio-economic development of nations and the protection of the environment."

Regarding the WMO Resolution 40, various meteorological services around the
world (e.g., about  have started charging for some of their data sets.  This
action prevents the free and open exchange policy that the U.S. endorses and
encourages.

There is more information on "additional" data, see:

<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/addata.html>

These data are not supposed to be resent to the country of origin.

More information on the WMO and the Resolution 40 can be located at:


<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/im/wmocovr.htm#Contents>
<http://www.nws.noaa.gov/im/wmor40.htm>

I hope this has helped.

Please feel free to contact me if you have additional questions.

Linda



--On Friday, June 08, 2001 10:51 AM -0600 Unidata Support
<address@hidden> wrote:



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To: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
From: karl <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20010607: Effects of WMO Resolution 40
Organization: UCAR/Unidata
Keywords: 200106081557.f58FvOp03050


If you don't mind my asking, since I'm new, what is WMO Resolution 40?



Greetings,

I have received a query from the National Research Council (Anne
Linn) seeking documentation on how WMO Resolution 40 is affecting
science.  If anyone on this Unidata-wide mailing list can describe a
recent effect (perhaps some inhibition in the provision data for
scientific education or research), I would appreciate receiving a
description of the situation.

The request was stimulated by NRC interest in the e-mail exchanges a
couple of years ago, involving SUNYA and Scripps, about a demand by
Ireland that certain synoptic observations (categorized as
"additional" data) be removed from university web sites.

I inadvertently left this query unattended for some time (since 6
April), so prompt replies would be _greatly_ appreciated.

Thank you,
Dave


--------------------------------
-Karl Brosius
-Unix Administrator
-Space Physics Research Facility
"Implement Technology"


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Linda Miller - address@hidden
External Liaison, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303 497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690
URL:  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/lmiller/un.act.html