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AMOFSG-Memo/36 6/8/07  MEMORANDUM Ref: AN 10/20 To: Members, Aerodrome Meteorological Observation and Forecast Study Group (AMOFSG) From: AMOFSG Secretary Subject: Draft Guidance material on instrument specifications Action: Members to provide comments by 21 September 2007 In response to the agreed action c) from Agenda Item 7 of the AMOSSG/6 Meeting the attachment contains a draft set of guidance material on sensor specifications which are intended to form an appendix to the Manual on Automatic Meteorological Observing Systems at Aerodromes (Doc?9837). I would be grateful if any comments of this material could be provided to me by 21 September 2007 to enable the inclusion of this material in the current update of the manual. Comments of a purely editorial nature are not necessary as a full editorial review will be conducted. N. Halsey Attachment: Guidance material  ATTACHMENT GUIDANCE MATERIAL Chapter 13 Quality Assurance The following text could be appended to the chapter: 13.6 Quality goals and the processes for meeting them should be taken into account also in the procurement of an automatic aerodrome observation system. Specifications of the system should be written to reflect the requirements of quality assurance, as well as other relevant criteria. 13.7 Before a new system is taken into use, the organization responsible should ascertain that the products supplied meet their specifications. Conformance to specifications can be verified e.g. by: own testing, inspection at a factory acceptance test, or reliable evidence provided by the supplier, e.g. third party test reports or certificates issued by a competent authority, based on documented testing and applying similar criteria other documentation, e.g. credible tests carried out and documented by the supplier Note: Performance of some meteorological sensors can be difficult to verify due to the lack of standardized definitions for accuracy. Partic