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Economic slowdown as a result of COVID is no substitute for Climate Action
News
Publish Date: 24 March 2020
Efforts to control the Coronavirus pandemic have reduced economic activity and led to localized improvements in air quality . But it is too early to assess the implications for concentrations of greenhouse gases which are responsible for long-term climate change. Carbon dioxide levels at key observing stations have so far this year been higher than last year.
Resources
Vision, Mission, Strategic Planning
WMO provides world leadership and expertise in international cooperation in the delivery and use of high-quality, authoritative weather, climate, hydrological and related environmental services by its Members, for the improvement of the well-being of societies of all nations.
WMO Bulletin goes green
News
Water, Climate, Climate change
Publish Date: 27 March 2020
WMO has just issued its twice-yearly Bulletin, with a focus on Climate and Wate r in accordance with the theme of World Meteorological Day and World Water Day. The Bulletin introduces WMO’s 70 th anniversary, although official commemorative activities have been scaled back because of the Coronavirus pandemic.
High Impact Weather Lake System (HIGHWAY) Project
Regional Projects
The LVB is the lifeblood of East Africa supporting approximately 25 percent of the population. The people and economy heavily depend on rain-fed agriculture and fish industries in this basin...
Building Resilience to High-Impact Hydro-Meteorological Events through Strengthening Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and South East Asia
Multi-National projects
Runing until March 2021, the multi-country project will strengthen weather-, climate-, and water-related impact-based decision support services, protecting lives and property in three regions: South East Asia, the Caribbean, and...
Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) for Kenya Airways
National Projects
The AMDAR program uses the aircraft’s existing sensors, avionics and telecommunication systems to gather, process, and disseminate data.The data is used directly by KMD to improve the accuracy of weather...
Measurement-Model Fusion for Global Total Atmospheric Deposition, a WMO initiative
Atmosphere
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (1) - 2020
Theme: Observations
23
Publish Date: 23 March 2020
The Earth’s atmosphere's main cleansing mechanism removes chemicals from the air and deposits them onto land and water surfaces. While the effects of these removal processes are mostly beneficial, some can have negative impacts on human health, ecosystems and food security. For example, acid rain – the acidification of rainwater due to nitrogen and sulfur emissions – damages forests, kills insects, corrodes industrial metal structures, etc. Such adverse impacts of deposition are of great interest to society as a whole and more particularly to policymakers, thus, WMO decided to undertake the...
Bulletin 69 (1)
Date publication: 2020
UN Climate Change Conference (COP25)
The latest climate science from WMO and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is informing negotiations at COP25 in Madrid, Spain from 2 to 13 December 2019. Ahead of COP25,...