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Impacts of COVID-19 Restrictions on Observations and Monitoring
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Observations
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is impacting a broad range of activities in fields that are far from the immediate and obvious concerns related to public health. WMO activities in the areas of weather, climate and water are among them. Earlier in the year, during the first COVID-19 restrictions, the media devoted considerable attention to the potential effect on our activities
Foreword by WMO Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Climate
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Publish Date: 16 November 2020
At the beginning of 2020, I looked forward to the 70th year of WMO as a new beginning. The WMO Community had several notable achievements to celebrate: a new Earth System approach, a new governance structure that would broaden the participation of all Members in the core work of the Organization and streamline processes, and a new management structure in the Secretariat.
La Asociación Regional III (América del Sur) concluyó exitosamente su reunión con elección de nuevas autoridades.
News from Members
Publish Date: 2 December 2020
La decimoctava reunión de la Asociación Regional III de la OMM (AR-III-18) se llevó a cabo mediante videoconferencia entre el 25 y 27 de noviembre de 2020 con la participación de 127 personas.
WMO Members, Working Together in Good Times and Bad
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
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Publish Date: 16 November 2020
The ongoing global pandemic has demonstrated that WMO is much more than the official scientific body of the United Nations on the global climate, weather and water – it is a family that pulls together when times get hard. The WMO Secretariat’s initial survey to assess the impacts of COVID-19 restrictions on its Members’ operational capability contained a few supplementary questions, the responses to which highlighted that fact.
Tree Story – The History of the World Written in Rings
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
In 2008, an article in Science argued that investments in hydrologic and other water planning need to account for anthropogenic climate change. For many involved in designing dams, dikes and water supply schemes the concept of accounting for climate change was new. In her compelling book Tree Story, Dr Valerie Trouet shows that in fact it was not new.
The Role of the Hydrometeorological Service in the Information Economy
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Water
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
As a professional technologist working within a deeply scientific domain, I have spent more time than one might expect explaining exponential growth. In the past, this has been mostly through analogy; from grains of rice on a chess board to bacteria on a petri dish. In these difficult and uncertain times, I am finding that I am having to explain this much less.
WMO Anniversaries – Dates and Facts
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Climate, Water, Weather
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
There are important dates in every organization’s history – dates to celebrate and to remember achievements and the people behind them. In 2020, we mark the 70th anniversary of the WMO – it is a prelude to an even more important event: the 150th year of the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) and WMO, which will be celebrated by the global meteorological community in 2023. But some question that date as the early foundational events of international cooperation in meteorology are a bit obscure and cited differently in various historic reviews.
National Hydrological Services - Impacts due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Water
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global public health emergency and placed various levels of restrictions on citizens around the world. This has also impacted the collection of Earth observation data and the delivery of important services in the sector of meteorology, hydrology and climatology.
Climate Services Ecosystems in times of COVID-19
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Climate
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
Faced with the greatest public health crisis of our time, people must work together and learn from each other to overcome the complex challenges facing our communities, countries, and the world. Climate-related hazards are one of those challenges; they exacerbate already challenging public health conditions and impact not just people, but also the infrastructure, trade, and community support on which society depends.
Stranded at Sea during COVID-19 Restrictions
Bulletin nº Vol 69 (2) - 2020
Theme: Polar
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Publish Date: 18 November 2020
The crew, staff and researchers on the RV Polarstern, a German research vessel, found themselves stranded aboard a ship drifting in the ice in the Arctic in March when COVID-19 restrictions made scheduled changes of staff virtually impossible. Two staff from Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Robert Hausen, a meteorologist, and Christian Rohleder, a weather technician, were aboard. This is their story.