Dear WIGOS community, and WIS related colleagues,
A new forum has been created and launched on Friday 14 November 2025 - within the WIGOS Learning Portal.
It is called "WIS2implementation and observational data for NWP centres" and is meant as a way for numerical weather prediction (NWP) centres to discuss strategies around the WMO Information System 2.0 (WIS2) in relation to observational data, i.e. closely related to WIGOS.
The expected audience for the new forum are the Observations Quality Monitoring (data assimilation) and Focal Points at NWP centres.
Participants of the recent WIS2 Observation Data for Numerical Weather Prediction Workshop, which was held in March 2025, are invited as the initial members of this forum, and anyone can then self-subscribe using the enrolment procedure already in place.
Here are some suggested topics that could be discussed in this forum:
- how to connect to WIS2 operationally (choosing between in-house, commercial, open-source solutions)
- how to get notifications or discover new data on WIS2
- share "data events" and news from data providers share approaches to GTS to WIS2 migration (in terms of data acquisition/assimilation)
Your comments and suggestions to improve the new forum as well as to the whole WIGOS Learning Portal will be much welcome and appreciated.
Wishing you all a fruitful usage of this and the other forums in the portal.
Kind regards from the WIGOS and WIS teams at WMO Secretariat,