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Appropriate posts for the CHy e-Board will include communications from the President, documents for discussion, announcements of forthcoming meetings etc, related to the work of the Commission for Hydrology.
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March 1st, 2010
During CHy-XIII, the Commission adopted Resolution 2 on this Project. It also adopted the governance scheme comprising:
- a Steering Committee of the project, assumed by the Advisory Working Group (AWG), to provide overall guidance; and
- a Management Committee (MC) for day-to-day implementation. As tasked by the Commission, the AWG finalized at its first meeting the Terms of Reference of the MC.
The Secretariat then undertook the actions necessary to establish the MC. I was honoured to be asked to Chair the MC, which I have accepted, and I am pleased to report on the MC’s inaugural meeting held in Geneva November 18-19, 2009 and progress made to date on this Project. You may access the report of this meeting at the Project website (http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/hwrp/FlowMeasurement.html).
The meeting examined those activities currently under implementation, considered requests from CHy-XIII and its Advisory Working Group on expanding the scope of the Project, and focused on taking decisions about future activities. This resulted in having two new Project Outputs added to the originally identified five, with the work plan being modified accordingly. The updated work plan is contained in the report of the meeting and the most recently updated version can be accessed on the project website: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/hwrp/Flow/flow_tech/workplan.php. Discussions and decisions by the MC at its first meeting, as well as an update on activities, will now be provided using the Project Outputs as a reporting template.
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February 19th, 2010
As previously announced by Ann Calver (see her message dated 4 January 2010 below) WMO, together with CIIFEN (Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño), organized a workshop in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the ‘Integration of Seasonal Forecasts and Hydrological Information for Water-related Sectors in the Western Coast of South America’ from 25-28 January 2010. Roddy Henderson, from NIWA (New Zealand) attended this workshop in representation of CHy. Extracts from his report are reproduced below:
Introductory Sessions
General introductory material from Dr Caponi, Dr Mascarenhas, Dra. Borbor and Ing. Gallardo set the scene for the workshop. With the sponsorship of WMO and CHy, we were to discuss the current situation and then formulate an action plan for the implementation of regional hydrologic forecasts. Potential problems of data availability were foreshadowed at this early stage; this reflected both funding issues (closure of stations) and ownership issues (access to data in real time and historically because of ownership by private companies rather than national services). However the great importance of data for policy formulation, decision making and application of models for forecasting was stressed.
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February 1st, 2010
In conjunction with our terms of reference as co-leads of the CHy theme area on QMF-Hydrology, we attended a WMO Quality Management Framework Overview and Auditor Training Workshop in Geneva during the week of December 7-11, 2009. As you may recall, the Executive Council decided during its fifty-sixth session (EC-LVI, June 2004) to establish an Inter-Commission Task Team on Quality Management Framework (ICTT-QMF). The Council agreed that the WMO Quality Management Framework should focus on technical aspects of the operation of the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs). It also emphasized the role and responsibility of the technical commissions in the provision of guidance, advice, review, and assessment for the development of the WMO QMF. In order to facilitate the implementation of a QMF in Members NMHSs, the ICTT-QMF deemed it essential to provide initial training for the Member’s experts active in QM issues in the various technical commissions as well as the WMO Secretariat staff supporting them. The subject overview and training workshop was a first attempt at meeting this objective.
The workshop consisted of two components: an overview of the fundamental regulations associated with the ISO 9000 family of Quality Management Standards; and an intensive introduction to the essential elements of planning and conducting an internal QMS audit. Although most of the workshop was devoted to auditor training, we would like to provide a more general review of the concepts and principles of Quality Management in this e-Board posting.
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January 4th, 2010
This is an update of information on the ‘Water, Climate and Risk Management’ (WCRM) part of the 2008-2012 CHy work programme, with news of important initiatives underway with some our OPACHE experts, and with opportunities for involvement in further activities in our challenging programme. This WCRM work continues to take place against a background of very widespread interest in climate and water matters.
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December 4th, 2009
This message is to inform the entire CHy Family of the progress made so far regarding CHy Publications.
You may recall that the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) at its Thirteenth Session adopted Resolution 1 (CHy-XIII) - WMO Quality Management Framework - Hydrology (QMF - Hydrology). The adoption of this resoulution, among others, is to ensure that the core activities undertaken by National Hydrological Services, such as hydrological data acquisition, transmission and delivery of services and products, are performed efficiently and effectively.
Among activities envisaged to be carried out to promote the implementation of the Resolution is the preparation and updating of technical guidance materials and documents. To ensure that these guidance materials are of high quality, Resolution 1 also required that guidance materials developed are subjected to a Peer Review Mechanism under the watch of the Vice-President. I am glad to inform you that the review mechanism has been and is being followed strictly.
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