World Meteorological Organization

WMO Distributed Databases

The WMO Distributed Databases (DDBs) project, co-ordinated by the World Weather Watch Department, has been developed to provide access to data that are needed by WMO, and related international, programmes but not routinely exchanged on the Global Telecommunications System (GTS). This entry to WMO-DDBs is maintained at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland (map).

This, version 1.1, is a prototype designed to test the feasibility of the hypertext approach to providing access to this information. As a prototype it will be subject to frequent changes and revisions.

Last updated 26 February 1996

The following centers and organizations are currently participating as WWW DDBs servers.

FTP Servers

Switzerland, Swiss Meteorological Administration, Zurich
General information, software, and meteorological symbols defined as a font library
USA, National Weather Service, NCEP (formerly NMC), Suitland
NCEP (NMC) observations, 12 and 24 hour Eta model forecast fields, NCEP radiosonde station directory, NCEP BUFR tables B and D, WMO DDBs file server naming standards, software (GRIB and BUFR encoders/decoders)
USA, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville
Various climate, satellite, field experiment and model output data sets
WMO Secretariat (top level directory)
Departmental and meeting documents and reports (Documents directory) and operational publications (wmo-ddbs directory) such as the WMO Master list of stations (from Pub. 9 Vol. A) as a text file, WMO list of bulletins (from Pub 9 Volume C) as a text file, WMO list of ships (from Pub 47) as a text file, and the WWW Operational Newsletter.

Gopher servers

Australia, Bureau of Meteorology, NMC, Melbourne
Forecast and climate products
USA, NWS Telecoms Gateway, Silver Spring
NCEP (NMC) message products, bulletins, station changes (for the USA and others), Global Master Station List (USA version).

World Wide Web (HTTP) servers

Météo France, Toulouse
Météo France home page (in English) with pointers to forecast and climate products and current Meteosat images
U.K. Met Office , Bracknell
The Met Office Server provides access to general information, forecasts, etc. This link points to their Web FTP index which provides pointers to copies of BUFR Tables B and D, BUFR code and flag tables, and the Global Master Station List(UK version).
USA, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville
NCDC home page and pointers to various climate, satellite, field experiment and model output data sets
USA, National Weather Service, Silver Spring, Maryland
NWS home page with pointers to forecast products and general information
WMO Secretariat
WMO home page and pointers to general information

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