Nexus StandardsEarly Warning and Anticipatory ActionMultilateral and institutional technical areas
Area · proposed

WMO and hydrometeorological services

Describes the public technical work of the World Meteorological Organization relevant to risk: the WMO Information System 2.0 publish-subscribe architecture, the Unified Data Policy for free and unrestricted exchange of core data, the Register of Alerting Authorities and CAP alert aggregation, the Global Multi-hazard Alert System, hazardous-event cataloguing and the Early Warnings for All initiative, and what Nexus alert and real-time profiles could contribute. A section of the Early warning and anticipatory action subsite. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.

Area recordEarly Warning and Anticipatory Action
  1. TierMultilateral and institutional technical areas
  2. Registryproposed area · no registry row yet
  3. Nexus StandardsNS-3, NS-9, NS-11
  4. Open standards5
  5. Feeds3 · 0 admitted
  6. Couplings4
  7. Last reviewed2026-10-17

Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.

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Status
PROPOSEDproposed area · no registry row yet
Last reviewed
area context bank
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Nexus Standards (2026). WMO and hydrometeorological services: area brief, Early Warning and Anticipatory Action (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/early-warning/wmo-and-hydromet-services/. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.

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01Scope

WMO and hydrometeorological services: what the area covers, and what it leaves to others.

The multilateral and institutional technical areas section of Early Warning and Anticipatory Action. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).

In scope 5

  • WIS 2.0 architecture, Global Discovery Catalogue and topic hierarchy
  • WMO Unified Data Policy and the core and recommended data categories
  • CAP alert aggregation, Register of Alerting Authorities and GMAS
  • Early Warnings for All pillars and their monitoring
  • Observing system information (OSCAR) for station metadata

Out of scope 3

  • Issuing forecasts or warnings; only mandated authorities do so
  • Any implied WMO partnership or endorsement
  • Operational data exchange on behalf of national services

Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.

02Data and feeds

3 sources, with provider, licence and delivery path.

Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.

Every feed · pending admission

No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.

Admitted
0
none yet
Register row exists
2
recorded for the GRIx path
Proposed row
1
terms to be recorded
Delivery
2 GRIx · 0 plugin · 0 browser · 1 snapshot
GRIx first, then plugin, browser-direct, snapshot
03Open standards

5 open standards, each with its relation.

Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.

04Indicators

2 indicators the area tracks.

05Systemic couplings

4 couplings to other areas and subsites.

Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).

Canvas · the area and its couplingsDesign, not a record
WMO and hydrometeorological services: systemic couplingsThe couplings the area context bank records for WMO and hydrometeorological services: 1 area in Early Warning and Anticipatory Action, 3 areas in other subsites and 2 subsites reached. Each coupling carries a mechanism stated in the context bank (PROPOSED); a reading aid, not a dependency proof.

Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.

  1. Alerting and messagingEarly Warning and Anticipatory ActionCAP 1.2 alerts from registered alerting authorities are the input format that the alerting area profiles; WMO's register is the authority list it checks.
  2. Real-time fabricOpen Infrastructure and DevelopersWIS 2.0 topic hierarchy and MQTT publish-subscribe are the model the Open Infrastructure and Developers subsite's real-time fabric follows.
  3. Sendai Framework alignmentHazards and Disaster Risk ReductionEarly Warnings for All progress is measured through Sendai target G, so WMO and UNDRR data meet in G-indicator records.
  4. UNDRR and the Sendai Framework MonitorHazards and Disaster Risk ReductionHazardous-event identifiers from WMO cataloguing are designed to link to UNDRR loss records, joining hazard and impact.
06Readiness

What each pathway can read from this area.

GCRI Canada evidence pathway

GCRI Canada

GCRI Canada decides under its own evidence rules whether hydromet-derived records are usable; describing WMO systems is not acceptance.

Open the GCRI Canada evidence pathway

Recognition pathway

The Global Risks Forum (GRF)

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) decides under its own rules how early-warning work features in its programmes; this section implies no recognition.

Open the Recognition pathway

Capital pathway

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) decides capital readiness under its own criteria; warning-coverage records only inform its reviewers' view of preparedness.

Open the Capital pathway

Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.

07Nexus Standards that apply

3 Nexus Standards for this area.

The Nexus Standards the area context entry lists. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.

  1. 01

    NS-3 · GRIx record UNIs (grammar, legacy crosswalk, allocation authority)

    Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3

  2. 02

    NS-9 · Contextual UNIs (deployments, instances, programme instances)

    Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9

  3. 03

    NS-11 · Verification and monitoring (evidence, attestations, zero-trust conformance observation)

    Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11

09Working group

The working-group charter, proposed.

Scope

Describe WMO's systems accurately and build open CAP and WIS 2.0 consumer profiles and test suites that national services could reuse.

No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.

Deliverables · 3
  1. CAP 1.2 consumer profile with validator and simulated feed
  2. WIS 2.0 topic-hierarchy mapping for Nexus real-time records
  3. Early Warnings for All pillar crosswalk to Nexus records
Liaison targets · 3
  • WMO (category C information exchange sought; none recorded) liaison sought
  • OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee (information exchange sought; none recorded) liaison sought
  • ITU-T Study Group 17 on X.1303 bis (information exchange sought; none recorded) liaison sought
10Restricted compatibility profiles

No closed standard is named for this area.

Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.

The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.

11Audiences

Who works with this area: 4 audiences.

  1. national meteorological and hydrological services
  2. early-warning practitioners
  3. anticipatory action teams
  4. developers of alerting systems
12Open problems

3 open problems an expert would start with.

  1. Alert language, severity and certainty fields are used inconsistently across authorities; how to normalise them without overriding the issuing authority.
  2. Impact-based forecasting needs exposure and vulnerability data that hydromet services do not hold; how to join them without implying the service issued the impact statement.
  3. Recommended (non-core) data may carry restrictions; how to tag records so restricted data never flows into open products.
13Hazards and sectors

What acts on this area, and who carries it.

Hazards and threats 5

tropical cyclonesfloodsdroughtsheatwavessevere storms

Sectors 0

No sector is listed for this area; it serves every sector through the areas it couples with.

14References

4 sourced references.

Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them. No Risk Academy faculty pathway is linked to this area yet; one is linked when a faculty publishes a pathway that fits.

  1. peer-reviewedThe quiet revolution of numerical weather predictionNature · 2015
  2. published statisticsEarly Warnings for AllWorld Meteorological Organization · 2023
  3. published statisticsWMO Unified Data Policy Resolution (Res. 1, Cg-Ext(2021))World Meteorological Organization · 2021
  4. standardCommon Alerting Protocol Version 1.2OASIS Open · 2010
15Key terms

Terms used on this page.

UNI
Unique Nexus Identifier: identifies and resolves an artifact and its record; it never certifies truth, readiness or approval.
PROPOSED
Drafted content that no authority has adopted. Every area entry here is a proposal to the Nexus Standards registry.
profile
Relation: a Nexus profile narrows or extends the external standard for the nexus, validated with the body's own tools where they exist.
adopt
Relation: the external standard is used as published, values validated against it.
crosswalk
Relation: Nexus clauses are mapped to parts of the external standard by number, never by text.
cite
Relation: the external standard is cited by identifier and URL as a reference.
pending admission
No legal register row admits this source for display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from it.
GRIx
The governed data layer of Nexus Foundry: external data is read through it with its licence and source release.
docket
A public change record under NS-13, decided by editors with written reasons.
attestation
An evaluator's recorded result for one clause and one subject under NS-11; never a certification.
liaison sought
A liaison the working group would ask the body for; none is held unless the body confirms it in writing.
17Learn and apply

Where WMO and hydrometeorological services is taught, worked on and run.

Risk Academy disciplines that teach WMO and hydrometeorological services, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.

Risk Academy

Disciplines and courses

18Questions

Questions and answers.

Is the WMO and hydrometeorological services area adopted?
No. The area entry is PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; there is no registry row yet. Adoption of any standard is a recorded authority decision and none is recorded today.
Are the feeds on this page live?
No. Every feed is pending admission: no legal register row admits it for public pages yet, so nothing is read from it here.
How do I change this brief?
Through a docket under NS-13: a pull request against the area context bank or the registry, decided by editors with written reasons.
Nexus Standards

Shape this brief: WMO and hydrometeorological services.

Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.

Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.

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