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Publish Date: 28 March 2022
The newly published WMO Bulletin complements the theme of World Meteorological Day “Early Warning and Early Action Hydrometeorological and Climate Information for Disaster Risk Reduction” and informs discussion ahead of this May’s Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia.
Publish Date: 8 March 2022
The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, 2022 is “ Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow, ” recognizing the leading role of women and girls in climate change adaptation, mitigation, and response.
Powerful computers in WMO centres worldwide process the data collected from tens of thousands of land and sea observation instruments and Earth-observing satellites. These data are used in numerical models...
Within its mandate in the areas of weather, climate and water, WMO focuses on many different aspects and issues from observations, information exchange and research to weather forecasts and early warnings, from capacity development and monitoring of greenhouse gases to application services and much, much more.
Publish Date: 8 March 2021
WMO joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day, with a special case study on its Flash Flood Guidance System project. This year’s theme, “ Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world, ” celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the gaps that remain.
Publish Date: 8 March 2021
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021, WMO is showcasing the results of a special survey on Women in the Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) Project with Global Coverage.
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (1) - 2020
Theme: Careers
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Publish Date: 23 March 2020
Climate change and its impacts are affecting all members of society – women, men, girls and boys – but not always in the same way. In the widely-dispersed Pacific islands with their varying geographical conditions, cultures and socials structures, these differences are magnified. Pauline Pogi a hydrologist in the Water Resource Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Samoa stated, “Women, especially women who care for children or the elderly, are among the groups that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Bulletin nº Vol 68 (1) - 2019
Theme: Observations
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Publish Date: 17 April 2019
Past improvements Progress in environmental monitoring and numerical weather and climate prediction has been intimately connected with the progress in supercomputing. Over the last few decades, advances in computing power...
Bulletin nº Vol 68 (1) - 2019
Theme: Articles
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Publish Date: 17 April 2019
“What are you actually doing?” That is not a question that a management group likes to hear. But it is the question that the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) Director General Marianne Thyrring and Deputy Director General Anne Højer Simonsen have faced with from their stakeholders on several occasions. Besides the daily weather forecasts, most people simply do not know what DMI does. One of the things DMI does is store data that extends far beyond the five-day forecasts and gale warnings. “And these data are worth gold,” says Ms Thyrring.
Bulletin nº Vol 68 (1) - 2019
Theme: Observations
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Publish Date: 17 April 2019
Will the “cloud” and machine learning yield the next breakthrough in the weather, climate and water area? Exceptional advances in technology and its use over the last few decades have...
