Standards for Meteorology

Abstract

There has been a long-term and increasing demand upon the American Meteorological Society to provide meteorological standards. The Society recognizes the need but has been unwilling to assume direct responsibility for the production of standards. The American Society for Testing and Materials is providing standards for measurement, but the development of standards for meteorological values, mathematical models, definitions, instrumentation, etc., has been neglected. A meteorological standards institute is needed to provide laboratory support for standards production.

correspondence

“…Over the last 15 years, there have been a number of suggestions that the AMS participate to a greater or lesser extent in the standardization of meteorological instruments, quantities, methods of measurement, data handling, and data analysis. These suggestions were contained in articles by Lamb and Pharo (1966), Beckman (1967), Beaubien (1972), and Hoehne (1978), among others. In 1978, the Executive Committee of the AMS appointed an ad hoc committee to study the feasibility of establishing a Committee on Meteorological Standards.…”