Organizations

Name Acronym Specifies requirements for following Application areas
World Meteorological Organization WMO 2.1 Global Numerical Weather Prediction and Real-time Monitoring, 2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction, 2.3 Nowcasting / Very Short-Range Forecasting, 2.8 Aeronautical Meteorology, 2.9 Agricultural Meteorology, Atmospheric Chemistry (deprecated), Forecasting Atmospheric Composition, 2.6 Atmospheric Composition Forecasting and Monitoring, 2.7 Atmospheric Composition Information Services in Urban and Populated Areas, 2.4 Sub-Seasonal to Longer Predictions, 1.1 Sun, Heliosphere and Solar Wind Forecasting and Monitoring, 1.2 Energetic Particle and Magnetosphere Forecasting and Monitoring, 1.3 Ionosphere, Thermosphere and Geomagnetic Field Forecasting and Monitoring, 6.1 Earth System Forecasting and Monitoring, 6.2 Understanding Earth System Processes, 5.1 Terrestrial Cryosphere Forecasting and Monitoring, 5.2 Sea-Ice Forecasting and Monitoring, 5.3 Cryospheric Climate Monitoring, 4.1 Hydrological Forecasting and Real-time Monitoring, 4.2 Hydrological and Terrestrial Climate Monitoring
Global Climate Observing System GCOS Climate-AOPC (deprecated), Climate-OOPC (deprecated), Climate-TOPC (deprecated), 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring
Global Ocean Observing System GOOS 3.1 Ocean Forecasting and Real-Time Monitoring, 3.2 Coastal Forecasting, 3.3 Oceanic Climate Monitoring and Services, 3.4 Tsunami Monitoring and Detection, 3.5 Marine Environmental Emergency Response , 3.6 Maritime Safety (ports to open ocean), 3.7 Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles
World Climate Research Programme WCRP CLIC (deprecated), CLIVAR (deprecated), GEWEX (deprecated)
WMO-ISES WMO-ISES Space Weather