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The Climandes Project: Sharing experiences in designing user-driven climate services
Climate services
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Climate
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Publish Date: 14 November 2018
In 2016, El Niño-driven weather patterns significantly contributed to causing an intensification of global food insecurity. An analysis of the 2016 El Niño event, which affected more than 60 million people worldwide, revealed that a major part of the exposed population was uninformed and unprepared for the pronounced climate anomalies.
Monitoring, Predicting and Managing Meteorological Disasters
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Weather
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Publish Date: 19 November 2018
Protecting people’s lives and property against weather, climate and water-related disasters has been, and continues to be, a critical task in global sustainable development. It is especially important to meteorologists because nearly 90% of natural disasters are due to or are triggered by meteorological hazards.
Argentina’s First Steps Towards a Global Campus
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Education and training
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Publish Date: 19 November 2018
The WMO Global Campus initiative has sparked action for increasing collaboration to support the capacity-development needs of Members. The two components of the WMO Regional Training Centre (RTC) Argentina –...
The WMO Global Campus: An update and proposal for the future
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Education and training
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Publish Date: 19 November 2018
These and similar questions are frequently heard these days by the WMO Education and Training Office. The answers are simple, but they do require some explanation: “The WMO Global Campus is all around us, including all WMO Members that offer education and training services. You do not need to join in any official way. You will be a part of it whenever you use the resources it offers and make your own contributions to the initiative.”
Meteorological Training in the Digital Age: Blueprint for a New Curriculum
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
Theme: Education and training
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Publish Date: 19 November 2018
The middle decades of the twenty-first century will be a critical time for the meteorology profession. The effects of climate change will be clear and progressing in most regions (Hawkins and Sutton, 2012). The likely concurrent increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events (IPCC, 2012) will place meteorological forecasting in a critical societal position. There will be opportunities for meteorology to provide new and exciting benefits to society through continued improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts (Bauer et al., 2015). The growth of an efficient renewable...
Obituary: Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
Bulletin nº Vol 67 (2) - 2018
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Publish Date: 19 November 2018
Kofi Annan was the ultimate incarnation of a true Statesman, always looking at the big picture. His perspective would stretch as far as possible into the future and with a remarkable skill for linking complex issues in very different fields. Although there are innumerous illustrations of this, I shall always remember his decisive role in the development and adoption of the Millenium Development Goals, without which it would have been impossible to reach the universal consensus on the Agenda for Sustainable Development and the associated SDGs a few years later. He was a true believer in...
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