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Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
This article discusses some aspects of strategies for enabling the practical use of space observations of weather, climate and water resources for societal benefit.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
Safety at sea has been a primary driver for internationally coordinated marine observations since the foundation of WMO. Over the past two decades, demand has steadily grown for expanding marine observation systems to support other applications that require global observational datasets and prediction products for both the ocean and the overlying atmosphere.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
Contents A fuller account of the January Bulletin 50 years ago is available in the February 2008 edition of MeteoWorld on the Web. The contents of the January 1958 Bulletin...
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
More than 70 agencies in some 50 WMO Member countries contribute ozone observations to WMO’s Global Atmosphere Watch providing data essential for understanding the state of, and changes to, the ozone layer.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (1) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 January 2008
The year 2007, which had thus far been so propitious to the international climate change scientific community, thanks to the approval of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and the auspicious roadmap agreement reached at the UNFCCC’s COP-13 in Bali, among other landmarks, concluded for us all very sadly on 30 December with the death, in Stockholm, of Bert Bolin.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (2) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 April 2008
Weather and climate extremes are associated with loss of life, destruction of property and many other socio-economic miseries worldwide. They threaten livelihoods and the very survival of humankind. The vulnerability of societies seems to be increasing year after year in many developing countries, especially in Africa.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (2) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 April 2008
Monitoring changes in the Earth’s climate is based on decades and centuries of atmospheric and ocean observations. Included among these are century-long instrumental measurements of surface temperature and precipitation and records of daily data which are useful in understanding changes in the frequency and severity of extremes such as heavy precipitation events, drought and heat waves.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (2) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 April 2008
Evidence from around the world indicates that the costs of disasters, particularly weather-related disasters, are increasing. From the 1950s to the 1990s, the annual direct losses from all natural catastrophes rose from US$ 3.9 billion to at least US$ 40 billion at the 1999 dollar rate, while population grew only by 2.4-fold. In reality, these losses from predominantly weather- and water-related disasters are larger by a factor of two, when losses from less severe events are included.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (2) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 April 2008
The contents of the April 1958 Bulletin covered meteorological transmissions in Europe, reducing evaporation from reservoirs, aviation aspects of mountain waves, the 50th anniversary of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (see MeteoWorld/February 2008/Anniversaries) and Part II of “The conquest of the third dimension”, as well as reports of the second session of Regional Association III, the second session of the Commission for Synoptic Meteorology and activities of regional associations and technical commissions.
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (2) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 April 2008
The Secretary-General, Michel Jarraud, recently made official visits to a number of Member countries as briefly reported below. He wishes to place on record his gratitude to those Members for the kindness and hospitality extended to him.
