1. Presented by Samuel Muchemi World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Weather and Disaster Risk Reduction Services Department (WDS) Public Weather Services Programme (PWS) Report on the WMO Register of Alerting Authorities

2. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities2  Developed for WMO Public Weather Services  WMO Members can identify their officially recognized alerting authorities  Register has categories of alert messages, plus URL's for forecasts and CAP messages  Aggregators of alert messages and others can subscribe to a news feed to stay current with any changes to the register What is the WMO Register of Alerting Authorities?

3. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities3 Presentation Outline  The Need for a Register  Features of the Register  Designation of Editors  Updates Needed Now

4. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities4 The Need for a Register  Aggregators and other intermediaries may lack direct knowledge needed to distinguish an authoritative source of alert messages  This lack becomes more critical as alerting makes more use of large public networks  The WMO Register of Alerting Authorities is a reference to address that knowledge gap  Each Register entry asserts that a particular source of alert messages is regarded by a WMO Member as authoritative for particular categories of hazards over a particular area

5. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities5 Presentation Outline  The Need for a Register  Features of the Register  Designation of Editors  Updates Needed Now

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8. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities8 RSS Feed for Changes in Registered Authorities

9. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities9 Presentation Outline  The Need for a Register  Features of the Register  Designation of Editors  Updates Needed Now

10. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities10 Designating an Editor of the Register  A Letter was sent to all PR’s with WMO in November 2009 describing the Register  Each PR should have responded by designating an “editor” to maintain the Register records for all alerting authorities asserted by the Member  The editor is then approved by PWS and selects a personal password  Each editor should then maintain the Register entries on behalf of the Member

11. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities11 Presentation Outline  The Need for a Register  Features of the Register  Designation of Editors  Updates Needed Now

12. 6 April 2011Register of Alerting Authorities12 Questions? URL for WMO Register of Alerting Authorities http://www.wmo.int/alertingorg