Transcript Revision of WMO No. 258 and its implications, with emphasis on

Kathy-Ann Caesar
Meteorologist
3 (standard) WMO No 49
(standard)  WMO 258 (guideline)
 Is WMO – 258 - a guideline or a standard?
 Should there be a link between WMO
classifications and specific jobs?
 ICAO-Annex
New definitions of Meteorological Personnel
 Approved New WMO Technical Regulations No.
49.
 Approved the replacement documents to WMO
Publication No. 258 4th edition the Guidelines to
Education document.
 Approved the Aeronautical Meteorology
Programme that links job tasks to qualifications
rather than classifications
 Congress strongly supported the introduction
of a competency-based system for personnel
in aeronautical meteorology
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Congress confirmed the amendment of the
definition of Meteorologist and Meteorological
Technician :
 “Meteorologist –
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“Meteorological Technician –
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a person who has successfully completed the Basic
Instruction Package for Meteorologists (BIP-M)
requirements at university degree-level”, and
a person who has successfully completed the Basic
Instruction Package for Meteorological Technicians
(BIP-MT) requirements”.
The implementation date for the changed
definitions and Basic Instruction Packages will be
1 December 2013;
Cg-XVI/B/WP 6.2 – Appendix C.
Meteorological Technician
Draft Resolution 6.2/2 (Cg-XVI) – Definition of Meteorologist and
December 2013 coincides with the requirement
for meteorological service providers to ensure
that their personnel meet the aeronautical
meteorological personnel competencies.
 NMS personnel have to show that they have
successfully completed the BIP-M.
 No grandfathering clause. Qualified
meteorologist under the current definition will
not have to do anything extra
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However they are expected to have continued their
professional development and
Those in aviation are expected to have
documented this professional development.
 WMO
recognizes:
Regional education and training institutions
(RMTCs), provide a programme of study that covers
all of the BIP-M requirements, but does not lead to
a formal qualification such as a degree etc*.
 Such Institutions are expected to demonstrate that
their programme attains the required WMO level,
especially in terms of its breadth and depth of the
BIP-M;
 Such a graduate will be deemed to have attained
the level of a WMO meteorologist
 In the case of aeronautical meteorology, the
graduate is an Aeronautical Meteorological
Forecaster (AMF)
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Annex II – Guidelines to the implementations on the education and training standards in
Meteorology and Hydrology Vol-I Meteorology
 Specifies
the Basic Instruction Package for
Meteorologists (BIP-M) in terms of learning
outcomes
 Physical meteorology, including air quality and
observing technology;
 Dynamic meteorology, including Numerical Weather
Prediction (NWP);
 Synoptic meteorology, including mesoscale
meteorology and weather prediction;
 Climatology, including both the traditional statistical
description and the modern dynamical study and
interpretation of the climate, as well as climate
prediction;
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A person who has successfully completed the BIP-M programme
of study are able to:
Demonstrate systematic understanding of their field of study;
Accurately deploy established techniques of analysis and
enquiry used in their field of study, and apply the learnt
methods and techniques to review, consolidate, extend and
apply their knowledge and understanding;
Use conceptual understanding that allows arguments to be
devised and sustained and apply the understanding to the
solving of problems in their field of study;
Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts
and data whilst taking into account the uncertainty, ambiguity
and limits of knowledge of their field of study;
Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions about
their field of study to both specialist and non-specialist
audiences.
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Successful completion of the BIP-M …. does not mean that an
individual is immediately able to competently perform a
subsequent job;
Qualifications fall into two broad categories:
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Academic qualifications – ..awarded by a college or university.
…..specified in terms of a set of learning outcomes that have to be
satisfied.
Vocational (professional) qualifications – …..awarded by a
training institution or professional body. …..specified in terms of a
set of competencies that have to be demonstrated
A Job will now have an associated set of competence standards
defined by the required specialized knowledge, skills and
behaviours.
Acquiring these competencies will require job-specific education
and training that goes beyond the BIP-M and BIP-MT requirements.
Top-level Competencies
Annex I [WMO 49 Vol 1] Standards
Second-level Competencies
Describe and elaborate on the standards
National Competencies
Use examples of the second level to
adapt the top-level competencies to suit
the national situation
Simplified
 Previous
requirement
AMF meet competency standards by 2013
AMF = WMO Meteorologist by 2016
WMO Meteorologist = BIP-M plus university
degree or equivalent
 Today
AMF meet competency standards by 2013
AMF = BIP-M
WMO Meteorologist = BIP-M
 Questions
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