At the WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) ET-OWFPS Meeting on 22-24 October 2014 in Geneva, a draft document on standardized surface verification of deterministic NWP products was created. The document specifies the content of the future exchange of surface scores between global centres . and is available here:   Standardized Surface Verification for Deterministic NWP

The format for the exchange has not been defined yet. Below, two versions of a simple ascii format are proposed:

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(b) Record format (slightly more complicated but also more flexible, with the additional advantage that it is the same as the one proposed for upper-air scores)

The parameter keys and lists of parameters and scores are the same in both cases.

Data format

(a) VBar-delimited format

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