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Internal Oversight Office
The Internal Oversight Office (IOO) provides an independent, objective verification of financial, administrative and operational activities of WMO. It uses a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effective, efficient and economical use of all resources.
Cryosphere Elements
Sea Level Rise and the Loss of Coastal Land
Sea level rise is a major concern for coastal regions, especially heavily populated zones, and is critical for a number of small island nations. Melting of glaciers and ice caps in the second half of the 20th century led to about a 2.5 cm rise in sea level, in contrast to the loss of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets which added about 1 cm to sea level.
Extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress (Cg-Ext 2021) - (ONLINE)
Constituent Bodies
11

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11 October 2021
22

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22 October 2021
Location: Online
An extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress will be held online from 11 to 22 October 2021.
SOFF Funders Forum
The SOFF Funders Forums are chaired by Johannes Linn , SOFF Global Facilitator . Presentations of the First Funders Forum SOFF Rationale SOFF Design and Implementation Roadmap to COP26 Presentations...
Reinforcing the capacities of meteorological and hydrological services and enhancing the early warning systems in Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR)
Multi-National projects
Although the governments of both Cambodia and Lao PDR continue to establish policies and mechanisms to help reduce and/or avoid some of the impacts of extreme events and disasters, significant...
Public-Private Engagement (PPE)
Over the last years, WMO, in cooperation with various partners, has been developing a new approach for greater engagement between the public, private and academic sectors operating in the global weather enterprise. In 2018 and 2019 – at the 70 th Session of its Executive Council and the 18 th Session of the World Meteorological Congress – WMO refined guidance and policies to encourage and enable Members to pursue mutually beneficial partnerships and engagement with all sectors and stakeholders in order to enhance weather, climate and water services for business, individuals and society as a...
Met Office and Microsoft share information on what their partnership means for the future of the Met Office (online)
Meetings
4

Date

4 October 2021
Location: Online
In April 2021, the UK Met Office signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for the provision of a world-leading supercomputing capability that will take weather and climate forecasting to the...
Mali CAP Ready!
News from Members
Africa, Disaster risk reduction
Publish Date: 21 September 2021
With a target of enabling Common Alerting Protocol, (CAP) readiness in 25 African countries by the end of 2021, it is with great pleasure we announce that CAP in Mali is now online and fully operational. The CAP alerts and warnings are also displayed on the WMO Severe Weather Information Centre (SWIC 2.0) platform as shown in the image below. “Congratulations to Mali!”, they are well on their way to improving the coordination and dissemination of alerts nationally and internationally. Read more >>
Climate characteristics and factors behind record-heavy rain in Japan in August 2021 - Japan Meteorological Agency
News from Members
Publish Date: 24 September 2021
In mid-August 2021, areas from western to eastern Japan experienced record-heavy rain. The conditions observed are mainly attributed to the following: - Unusually for mid-summer in eastern and western Japan, like atmospheric flow in the latter half of the early-summer rainy season, known as the Baiu, a stationary front was strengthened by a significant north-south gradient of temperature in the lower troposphere between the Okhotsk High to north of Japan and the southward shifted North Pacific Subtropical High (NPSH) expanding to the south of Japan. A continuous confluence of water vapor from...