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WMO / OGC WIS 2.0 metadata and BUFR/GRIB (World Meteorological Organization)

Exchange Schema Meteorology licence required

The WMO Information System 2.0 (WIS2) is the framework for WMO data sharing in the 21st century for all WMO domains and disciplines. It supports the WMO Unified Data policy and the Global Basic Observing Network (GBON) and makes data sharing between WMO Members simple, effective and cost-efficient....

World Meteorological Organization, from their own og:description

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Steward World Meteorological Organization
Origin International Switzerland
Layer Exchange Schema
Domain Meteorology
Status live
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 5/6. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
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Assessed 51.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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