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Agricultural Meteorology Programme
AgM
WMO Programmes
Agriculture and food security, Application services
Assisting National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in providing weather and climate services to farmers, herders and fishermen in order to promote sustainable agricultural development, increase productivity and contribute to food security.
1

Start date

1 June 1983
Public Weather Services Programme
PWS / SDD
WMO Programmes
Weather, Application services
Enabling the delivery of weather and related services for sound decision-making on public safety and cost-efficiency in all social and economic activities affected by weather.
1

Start date

1 June 1994
Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Programme
MMOP
WMO Programmes
Oceans, Application services
Supporting the safety of life and property at sea, integrated coastal management and the minimization of societal impacts from natural hazards through the provision of meteorological-ocean services.
1

Start date

1 June 1999
Emergency Response Activities
ERA
WMO Programmes
Weather, Emergency, Application services
Enabling worldwide use of specialized and tailored products in support of environmental emergency response involving large-scale dispersion of air-borne hazardous substances.
16

Start date

16 October 2015
Disaster Risk Reduction Programme
DRR
WMO Programmes
Disaster risk reduction, Application services
Enhancing the contributions of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) to disaster risk reduction (DRR) at all levels in a more cooperative, cost-effective, systematic and sustainable manner.
1

Start date

1 June 2003
Aeronautical Meteorology Programme
AeMP
WMO Programmes
Aviation, Application services
Providing reliable, high quality, timely and cost-effective meteorological services to aviation users worldwide.
1

Start date

1 June 1919
Implementing the Global Framework for Climate Services at Regional and National Scales
Global Projects
Capacity development, Climate change, Climate services, GFCS, Natural hazards, El Niño / La Niña, Drought, Education, Training
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges to human society in contemporary times. Statistics show that the last decades have already seen a sharp rise in economic, social and...
WMO supports Sustainable Climate Information Services
News
Climate, Climate services, GFCS
Publish Date: 13 March 2019
As the recognition of the dependence between climate change and variability and human welfare grows, climate action continues gaining importance on the global development agenda
African leaders unite to modernize hydromet services
Press Release
Agriculture and food security, GFCS, Partnership, Capacity development, Policy
Publish Date: 12 September 2017
African leaders are coming together this week for action on modernizing weather and climate services, which inextricably link the Continent’s development, climate, and resilience agendas. Weather and climate drive nine out of ten disasters in Africa, threatening Africa’s hard-won development gains. Floods, droughts, tropical cyclones, and landslides continue to cause heavy damage and losses to livelihoods. Over the last two decades, these disasters have cost the continent US$10 billion dollars. Given the increasing climate variability, these disasters are projected to increase in frequency...
The Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Project
Multi-National projects
Agriculture and food security, Forecast, Drought, GFCS, Climate services, Weather
Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction project Many management decisions, for example in the context of agriculture, have to be taken on sub-monthly scales – a time scale that lies between the well-established and...