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ICAO-Annex 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?

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

Congress confirmed the amendment of the Congress confirmed the amendment of the definition of Meteorologist and Meteorological definition of Meteorologist and Meteorological Technician Technician :

“Meteorologist – a person who has successfully completed the

Basic Instruction Package for Meteorologists (BIP-M) requirements at at university degree-university degree-levellevel”, and

“Meteorological Technician – 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. Draft Resolution 6.2/2 (Cg-XVI) – Definition of Meteorologist and Meteorological Technician

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 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 levellevel, 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)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;

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.

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: 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 CompetenciesAnnex I [WMO 49 Vol 1] Standards

Second-level CompetenciesDescribe and elaborate on the standards

National CompetenciesUse examples of the second level to

adapt the top-level competencies to suit the national situation

Simplified Previous requirementAMF meet competency standards by 2013AMF = WMO Meteorologist by 2016WMO Meteorologist = BIP-M plus

university degree or equivalent

TodayAMF meet competency standards by 2013AMF = BIP-MWMO Meteorologist = BIP-M

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