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12 ABRIDGED FINAL REPORT OF THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION FOR HYDROLOGYclear articulation of scientific questions and purposes, to include other related initiatives such asthe Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) and the World Climate Research Programme/GlobalEnergy and Water Experiment, and WHYCOS. In addition, it would include or explore otherapproaches such as geostatistical approaches to provide relevant data and information to addressthose scientific questions and purposes. The Commission stressed that data and informationresulting from that package or activities should be shared with all interested parties.11.2 The Commission viewed the proposed HARON project as one of the potentialcomponents of such a package and concluded that the HARON project needed further revision toinclude near-real-time hydrometric data quality assurance aspects under the project, plan for anetwork design, plan for sustaining stations, and the clear definition of the role of the AWG in itsmanagement. HARON should not proceed until the AWG adopted a scientific framework for the“package of approaches” and it had been specified how HARON fit within the overall frameworkand how it addressed the scientific questions and purposes.11.3 The Commission recommended exploring the possibility of the Pacific-HYCOS projectand other HYCOS projects being taken up as WIS pilot projects. The Commission furtherrecommended that the data and information flows under the Flash Flood Guidance System beconsidered as part of a WIS pilot project.11.4 The Commission requested that hydrological requirements and perspectives behighlighted in sessions of the WIGOS and WIS working committees with the intent of making useof WIGOS/WIS mechanisms and infrastructure. In that respect, it decided that during theintersessional period, an AWG member should be made responsible for maintaining interactionwith WIGOS/WIS activities in the hydrological context.11.5 The Commission stressed the need to maintain awareness of Resolution 25 (Cg-XIII) –Exchange of hydrological data and products, within and beyond the WMO community. For thatpurpose, it should be regularly included as a discussion item in the meetings of regionalassociation Working Groups on Hydrology. It also recognized that in some hydrology and waterrelated fields there might not always be a need for general data exchange at the global level.Rather, exchange would be of specific datasets, targeted to a definite goal, such as data at thebasin level for Integrated Water Resources Management and data at the global level to supportregional downscaling of climatological products. The requirements of types of data and their formatof exchange for different applications should be clearly identified and communicated. TheCommission stressed in particular the need to ensure access to data for research needs.11.6 The Commission adopted Resolution 6 (CHy-XIII) – WMO Integrated Global ObservingSystems and WMO Information System.12. FUTURE PROGRAMME OF WORK OF THE COMMISSION (agenda item 12)12.1 The Commission noted that the Advisory Working Group, during its last session, hadinvited the chairs of the Working Groups on Hydrology and the Working Groups on Hydrology andWater Resources of the regional associations with the main objective of planning for the currentsession of the Commission. Some of the chairs of the working groups had previously undertaken aconsultation process in their respective regions. Based on that process, chairs of those workinggroups presented the regional needs, which were considered by the AWG while preparing theproposal for the CHy Workplan 2009–2012. The Commission noted that the AWG had alsoconsidered the ongoing activities that needed to be completed and the new proposed activities thatwere considered by the Commission under previous agenda items. Based on those AWGrecommendations and the resolutions it had previously adopted during the current session, theCommission adopted the programme of work for its next intersessional period, as given in Annex 1to Resolution 7 (CHy-XIII).12.2 The Commission proposed that the activities, in principle, be categorized by the AWGas: (a) mission critical, which should be accomplished, where practical, within the intersessional