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Third Pacific Meteorological Council opens in Tonga
The Third Pacific Meteorological Council opened in the Kingdom of Tonga today bringing together over 100 Pacific Met Directors, partners and stakeholders to strengthen the path ahead for Pacific Meteorology under the theme - “Sustainable Weather and Climate Services for a Resilient Pacific.” This event reaches a historic milestone in that it will be followed by the very first Pacific ...
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Argentina and Spain combine to launch new ozone-measuring service
The Argentine Meteorological Service, in collaboration with the Spanish Meteorological Agency and the government of the province of Tierra del Fuego, initiated a programme on 16 April 2008 to monitor atmospheric ozone from the global WMO Global Atmosphere Watch station at Ushuaia, Argentina (55°S and 68°W). At the same time, an ozonesonde was launched from Marambio station on the Antarctic ...
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ARC to Participate in HydrometINDIA
HydrometINDIA– VIRTUAL Conference, July 13-17. HydrometINDIA is a content-driven and networking-focused virtual event that will provide key topics for discussion, delivered using multiple immediate and intimate formats, including panel discussions, roundtables, one-on-ones and special strategy sessions. As part of Advanced Radar Company’s continued efforts to drive ...
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UN seeks to restore Haiti’s weather services to prevent further disasters
With the rainy season and its flood risks due in April and hurricanes shortly after, Haiti urgently needs operational meteorological services to forestall further disasters after last month’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations weather agency reported today. “In order to prevent potential disasters related to the natural hazards, which the country is prone to, the capacity of Haiti to ...
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Connecting Meteorological Services to Farmers: Success in West Africa
WMO is evaluating the success of a four-year project to improve the provision and use of meteorological information and tools for farmers in West Africa where agriculture and food security is heavily dependent on the weather. The MetAgri Operational Project embraced National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and farmers and agricultural extension workers in 17 West African ...
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Communities need more sophisticated meteorological services, says UN agency
Governments, businesses and the general public need more sophisticated information from their national weather services if they are to prepare adequately against natural disasters and better adapt to the threats posed by climate change, the head of the United Nations meteorological agency says. Michel Jarraud, the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), told a workshop ...
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Launch of VS20k visibility sensor with range of 20km
In our latest press release, we announced the official launch of the VS20k. This is the first Lufft visibility sensor on the market that can measure at distances of up to 20 kilometers, thus making it particularly suitable for meteorological applications or airport monitoring. It’s an addition to the Lufft VS2k visibility sensor with a range of 2 km. The right technology to measure ...
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Lufft launches VS20k Sensor to measure visibility up to 20 km
Measurement technology manufacturer Lufft announced the official launch of the VS20k. This is the first Lufft visibility sensor on the market that can measure at distances of up to 20 kilometers, thus making it particularly suitable for meteorological applications or airport monitoring. It’s an addition to the Lufft VS2k visibility sensor with a range of 2 km. The right technology to ...
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NOC hosts MARCDAT
The NOC hosted and led the 4th International Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Climate data (MARCDAT-IV) from the 18th – 22nd July, with 47 participants from 12 countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, China (incl., Hong Kong), Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, UK and the USA). 26 institutions were represented, including national hydrological meteorological ...
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African Ministers and Meteorologists Seek to Boost Resilience to Climate Change
Weather and Climate Services Underpin Sustainable Development 3 February 2014, Geneva/Cabo Verde (WMO) - The urgent need to boost Africa’s resilience to natural hazards like the devastating floods which recently hit southern Africa is high on the agenda of meetings of ministers responsible for meteorological services and their directors. The African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology ...
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Climate Services, Observing Systems and Research in Focus at WMO Executive Council
The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Executive Council has agreed on measures to expand and improve research and observing networks to increase understanding of our rapidly changing climate and strengthen delivery of meteorological services vital to society and the global economy. At its annual session 15-23 May, the Executive Council also discussed enhanced disaster risk ...
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LAMBRECHT meteo gets large order from German Weather Service (DWD)
With it’s precipitation sensor rain[e]H3 LAMBRECHT meteo GmbH prevailed against all competitors and has been awarded with the contract after participation in a tender of German Weather Service (DWD). DWD is the Meteorological Service of Germany and shall be deemed to be a reference in meteorology. DWD detects the precipitation amount at full-time and extra official weather stations. At the ...
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Seventeenth World Meteorological Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 May – 12 June 2015
The World Meteorological Congress meets once every four years to determine policies and priorities for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It approves long-term plans and the budget, elects the President and Vice-Presidents of WMO and members of the Executive Council, and appoints the Secretary-General. The Congress session takes place from Monday 25 May to Friday 12 June at the Geneva ...
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Weather and Climate Services Underpin Sustainable Development in Africa
Ministers responsible for meteorology in Africa are meeting to coordinate and accelerate regional efforts to strengthen resilience to extreme weather hazards and adapt to climate change. The Third Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) (http://www.wmo.int/amcomet) will be hosted by the government of Cabo Verde from 10th -14th February. It will focus on improving ...
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AMCOMET holds a successful session
Ministers responsible for meteorology in Africa have renewed their commitment to National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and endorsed a roadmap to strengthen service delivery. The Third Session of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET-3) was hosted by the government of Cabo Verde, in Praia, from 13th -14th February 2015. The session focused on strengthening ...
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Gender conference empowers women in provision and use of weather and climate services
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is spearheading a drive to ensure that weather and climate services embrace the special needs and strengths of women to reduce their vulnerability to disasters and climate change and realize their potential as champions of community resilience. The Conference on Gender Dimensions of Weather and Climate Services will focus in particular on climate ...
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Market launch of innovative snow depth sensor
A new measuring tool for meteorological services, airports, road maintenance depots, and winter sport regions, as well as for the renewable energy production is now available from Lufft: the SHM31 measures snow depths of up to 15 metres in mere seconds. It is the successor to the tried-and-trusted SHM30, which has been a fixed part of Lufft's range of optical sensors since 2014. What makes ...
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Good News! National Meteorological Special Technical Equipment Use License
Good News! Three types of LEICE’s Wind LiDARs, namely the long range, medium range, and short range LiDAR, with excellent performance, have been approved for the National Meteorological Special Technical Equipment Use License. It’s been 30 years since the Ocean University of China has developed China’s first Doppler Wind LiDAR. The Doppler Wind LiDAR is now put into standard ...
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The Reference is coming – First Presentation of a new class of Weather Sensor at Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
Press Release of the first presentation of a new class of Weather Sensor at AMS Show in New Orleans, USA. (Published on 7. January, 2016) Just assuming there’s a new weather sensor, which is so precise that a normal calibration laboratory isn’t able to measure the accuracy. Imagine there’s an environmental sensor, which could serve as the reference for all other ...
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Seamless Data Thanks to Mobile Weather Sensors
Around 20% of all accidents with serious injuries and deaths on the roads are weather-related. The weather is also the reason why more than 30 billion hours of driving time are lost each year and shipping companies worldwide lose 2 – 3 billion $ annually. But how can these dangers and losses be reduced? And how can we best deal with temperature and precipitation fluctuations on our traffic ...
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