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Meteoworld : November 2014
In its quest to Engage Youth on Weather and Climate as per the 2014 World Meteorological Day theme, WMO with financial assistance from the Government of Canada, updated its Careers in Meteorology booklet at the beginning of the year and organized several events encouraging young people to choose a scientific career.
Meteoworld : November 2014
The concept of a WMO Global Campus was introduced in September 2013 at the Twelfth WMO Education and Training Symposium in Toulouse, France. Initially there was some confusion about the meaning of the term and uncertainty as to how it could work, but there was also a lot of support for the idea of increased collaboration between training institutions to help overcome the gap between training demand and supply.
Meteoworld : February 2014
The Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) hosted the first ASEAN Climate Outlook Forum (ASEANCOF-1), held from 3–5 December 2013.
Meteoworld : February 2014
Obituary for Professor Yuri Antonievich Izrael
Meteoworld : February 2014
The International Council for Science (ICSU), on behalf of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, has released a call for full proposals to host the permanent secretariat of Future Earth.
Meteoworld : February 2014
SPICE (Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment) is a WMO/CIMO multi-sites intercomparison of instruments and systems of observation for the measurement of solid precipitation. One of the main objectives is the assessment of a wide range of instruments under various climates. For that purpose, around 20 sites worldwide are equipped and configured according to standards defined within the project, in order to allow comparison between the sites. The experiment started in October 2013 and is meant to last over two winter seasons.
Meteoworld : February 2014
2014 promises to be a busy year for WMO and the meteorological, climatologic and hydrologic community with several important conferences and events planned.
Meteoworld : February 2014
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) received unanimous endorsement of its mandate for a second decade at the GEO Plenary and the Ministerial Summit, which took place from 12–17 January in Geneva.
Meteoworld : May 2014
The WMO hurricane committee announced in April that it would no longer use the name Ingrid for future tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic, and the name Manuel in the eastern North Pacific, because of the death and destruction both storms caused in Mexico in September 2013.
Meteoworld : May 2014
The world’s weather presenters are effective communicators ideally positioned to address the public on the issue of climate change, including its causes, impacts, and adaptation and mitigation options. Television viewers...
