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The Imperative of Water Resources Assessment
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
As populations grow and economies expand, competition for water to meet household, municipal, agricultural and industrial needs continuously increases. Moreover, laws and regulations aimed at keeping water in rivers and streams to meet environmental and recreational objectives are similarly increasing.
Developments in Hydrometric Technology: New and Emerging Instruments for Mapping River Hydrodynamics
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
New demands on surface-water resources from an increasing world population and rising global living standards are requiring water managers to improve river flow measurements. Water managers are requiring flow instrumentation to measure those resources more accurately, in more detail and at lesser cost.
Fifty years ago ...
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
One of the most spectacular achievements of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) is the establishment of over 25 meteorological stations on the Antarctic continent through the cooperative efforts of 12...
News from the WMO Secretariat
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 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.
Capacity-Building Needs for National Hydrological Services
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
In broad terms, a hydrological service is an institution whose core business is the provision of information about the water (or hydrological) cycle and the status and trends of a country’s water resources.
Evolving Role of WMO in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
http://www.icsu.org In the late 1950s, the time when the Commission for Hydrology was coming into being, our world was very different. There were several thousand million fewer people living on the globe and nature was much more “natural” than today.
Weather and Climate Change Implications for Surface Transportation in the USA
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Weather affects the operation of the transportation systems that we all rely on—from automobiles slowed by a wet surface, to delivery trucks delayed by high winds, to passenger trains stalled by ice and snow.
Meteorological Services to Aviation
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Wilbur also requested and scrutinized US Weather Bureau data, and selected Kitty Hawk after writing to the government meteorologist stationed there. Thus began a relationship between aviators and meteorologists in the lead-up to the first controlled powered flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903.
Meteorology and Marine Transportation
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
According to the Book of Genesis, the third day of the creation process saw the separation of land and sea. This clearly provided a medium for transportation over long distances for the humans still to be created and at the same time laid the groundwork for the new science and profession of marine meteorology.
Understanding the Hydrological Cycle: Key to Sustainable Development
Bulletin nº Vol 57 (3) - 2008
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Publish Date: 1 July 2008
The term “sustainable development” refers to economic and social development enabling current needs to be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs, as defined in the “Brundtland report” submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development.